Strategic Growth Initiatives Counsel

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Global Legal Network (GLN) is a group of professionals operating globally from 10 countries. It provides a broad spectrum of differentiated services - focused on delivering value and innovation. We partner with Legal teams across Accenture to build efficiencies and centres of excellence related to Legal services; and through our size, geographic spread and language diversity, the Global Legal Network is able to drive quality, agility and speed in our services, aligned to Accenture’s relentless focus on maximum efficiency and operational effectiveness.

As GLN legal counsel you’ll be providing legal support to Accenture’s Infrastructure Engineering practice which designs, builds and manages a modern cloud-based IT infrastructure including Networks and Intelligent Edge.

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CL8 (Associate Manager) Job Description – GLOBAL LEGAL NETWORK

Key Responsibilities:

• Legal Support for the Infrastructure Engineering business team in conducting assessments of new service and product offerings and preparing those offerings for market.
• Collaborate with colleagues across Legal and Quality & Risk to identify legal and regulatory risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Enable Accenture’s Sales & Delivery Legal team to efficiently manage day-to-day contracting, including developing contracting templates, guidance and providing subject matter expert (SME) support to deal teams.
• Supporting Accenture’s Ventures & Acquisitions Legal team and business leadership in the evaluation of prospective acquisition targets related to the Infrastructure Engineering practice and development and implementation of post-merger integration strategy.

Knowledge Skills and Experience

• Minimum 7 years relevant experience in a corporate or law firm setting, ideally advising on technology transactions.
• Experience analyzing complex facts and situations to provide risk analysis and mitigation strategies.
• Understanding or willingness to learn applicable regulatory landscapes as required for the offerings/solutions, including with respect to technology (e.g. Cloud & Edge computing, telecommunications/network services).
• Track record of developing trusted relationships with senior business leaders.
• Experience shaping deals and evaluating innovative commercial models for new product and service offerings, including cloud infrastructure engineering/managed services, network services, edge computing.

Behaviours and Attributes

• Strong interest in learning about emerging technologies.
• Commitment to a creative, inclusive, and diverse workplace.
• Ability to build a sense of belonging in a team and establish a sense of common purpose inside the larger Accenture Legal department.
• Focus on analysis of the business, guidance to the right business and legal teams and industrialisation of more mature processes.
• Open to learn, work with and understand cross-cultures and locations throughout the Accenture global organisation.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us atwww.accenture.com

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