Legal Contracting Expert - Portuguese language

Accenture, recognized as a Great Place To Work®, is a leading global professional services company that helps major businesses, public administrations, and other organizations around the world develop their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and improve services for citizens, creating tangible value at speed and scale.

Contracting Legal Professionals (CLP) in Accenture’s Corporate Functions organization coordinate and deliver legal, contract and commercial counsel in support of Accenture's business. CLPs identify and help manage and mitigate risk and ensure ethical behavior and compliance with laws and company policies, while providing guidance and negotiating contracts leveraging commercial and market relevant positions.

Job Summary: Review, draft, and negotiate several types of contractual agreements in a fast-paced corporate environment which may include: master services agreements, outsourcing agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements, requests for proposals and agreements involving cloud, blockchain security, automation, systems integration and agile development. Team with more senior CLPs in supporting more complex contracts and deal structures. Act, and continuously evolve as, a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently, and help to, structure, negotiate and close client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective

• Strategize with senior CLPs and internal business clients prior to client negotiations

• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s transactional practices

• Educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues

• Develop subject matter expertise in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our business

• Participate in developing internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge capital on various legal and business issues

• Support, promote and implement Legal Group initiatives

• Embrace and evolve to gain expertise in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, architect, business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology enabled contracting professional

• Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

• Extensive knowledge of Portuguese and Spanish legislation relating to the matters described.

Relationships: Reports to: Contracting Lead

Supervises: No direct supervisory responsibility External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel

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Qualifications:

• JD (or equivalent)

• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction

• Minimum 3 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility, such experience should be in a law firm or in a fast-paced corporate legal/transaction group in a relevant industry

• Minimum of 2 years of experience negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues

• Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Accomplished negotiator with an understanding of principle-based negotiation strategy and tactics including the ability to present alternatives with proposed solutions

• Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions independently

• Experience negotiating and drafting technology-based agreements

• Understand basic principles of Finance, Accounting, Marketing, and Management

• Strong executive presence

• Good understanding of contracting/risk issues, including IP, as they apply to digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing transactions

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Additional Desirable Criteria:

• Broad experience in working with state and local government agencies or working with clients in the healthcare arena.

Work Requirements:

• Travel required.

• Candidates who are currently on assignment as part of the Global Careers program are not eligible for consideration.

• Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

• Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

At Accenture, a company recognized as a Great Place To Work®, we are committed to a hybrid work model that, thanks to technology and our facilities, allows us to maintain the essential human connection to work with our teams and clients. This connection enables us to uphold our culture of inclusion and diversity and be, according to Refinitiv, the most diverse company in the world.

Additionally, we offer you other benefits such as:

• Medical, Life, and Accident Insurance

• Medical service and wellness programs

• Flexible compensation program and stock purchase

• Flexibility programs (schedules, days off, vacations...)

• Individualized training itinerary

• Sustainability programs and Accenture Foundation

• Employee network for diversity

• Other benefits: Bankinter office with special conditions and profit sharing

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 approximately 791,000 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. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, 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 at www.accenture.com

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