Strategic Growth Init Counsel Manager

Skill required: Contract Management - Intellectual Property Law
Designation: Strategic Growth Init Counsel Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:13 to 18 years
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song— all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 784,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
What would you do? 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 GLN is able to drive quality, agility and speed in our services, aligned to Accenture’s relentless focus on maximum efficiency and operational effectiveness. CORE and Global Services (CGS) is a group of legal professionals working and supporting different legal areas such as Compliance, Regulatory Offerings, Ethics, Procurement, Corporate Matters and the Services Areas aligned with the new offerings and technologies. Job Summary: Strategic Growth Initiatives, Role Summary – Global Services Legal (GSL) Includes delivering subject matter guidance, support, and solutions to legal and business teams, covering the services and/or areas such as the following: Technology Innovation, Assets & Solutions, Security, Cloud, Song, Metaverse, Sustainability Industry X, Strategy & Consulting, and Operations. Candidates may apply to the concerned above-mentioned areas. Management Level Description Complexity: • Requires analysis and solving of complex problems. Typically creates new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures. • Requires understanding of the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals. • Interaction is with senior management/ leadership at a client and/or within Accenture, involving matters that may require acceptance of an alternate approach. Authority: Some latitude in decision-making. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments. Impact or Decision Impact: Decisions have a major day to day impact on area of responsibility.
What are we looking for? Qualifications: Education: Graduate Law degree (JD) and admission in good standing with applicable bar association(s) (or local equivalents). Knowledge or expertise (example, post graduate studies or work experience in connection with data science and AI) in the Talent Segment expertise is a plus. Work Experience: ? Minimum of 10+ years of experience at law firms or as in-house counsel and/or in legal outsourcing. Knowledge and Skill Requirements: Generic Skills: • Experience at a law firm and/or as in-house counsel or in legal outsourcing, with special focus on product and offering counsel work, identifying risks and proposing solutions, in generic/legal research & reporting, compliance, risk identification & mitigation strategies. • The role does not require acting as the main point of contact for contract negotiation though candidates should have strong experience drafting, reviewing, and/or negotiating a variety of mid to high complexity agreements with vendor and clients, including but not limited to NDAs, software and technology licensing, cloud as-a-service solutions, and e-commerce implementations, demo/evaluation agreements, consulting services agreements, statement of work, business proposals, subcontract and teaming agreements, etc. • Strong understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) concepts (trademark, copyright, right of publicity, patent), and experience in content review and clearances. • Subject Matter Expertise in managing end-to-end projects and teams on function specific processes and/or areas, worked with internal and external teams, and understands delivery requirements.
Roles and Responsibilities: Specific Responsibilities aligned to Role GLN resources partner with Legal teams across Accenture to align areas of work and drive efficiencies to ensure the best delivery of Legal services to our business clients. This role consists of product and/or offering legal counsel within the applicable area of support in GSL. The GLN GSL resource may be asked to provide support in any of the following areas and should exhibit subject matter expertise to work on such projects independently: • Offerings & Solutions: Collaborate with GSL teams to support the approach to service and product offering reviews related to Data, by conducting assessments and providing recommendations and tools that mitigate risks while enabling desired outcomes for the business. This includes analysis of ad hoc licensing arrangements for tools and software used by the business, as well as Offering/Asset investigation and clearance in coordination with technical resources/teams to facilitate open-source software, data privacy, ECATT, vendor contract reviews; • Business Risk: Provide risk assessments and recommendations to the applicable business team, including on implementation of risk management practices. Recommend mitigation strategies and self-regulating governance strategies for handling Data topics. Help shaping commercial models to manage legal and commercial risk; • Regulatory Compliance: Collaborating with enabling regulatory compliance. Create and enable best practice standards, frameworks and processes for Data related offering development reviews. Support Accenture’s Ethics & Compliance team in the design and implementation of Data & AI compliance programs. Help provide regulatory compliance reviews & advice to applicable geographies, including future-looking projections of any anticipated regulatory changes with potential impact on our business and on the strategic growth initiatives areas; • Client Opportunity: Enable Accenture’s Sales & Delivery Legal team to efficiently handle day-to-day contracting, including developing contracting templates and guidance and providing SME support to deal teams; • Ventures &Acquisitions (V&A): Supporting Accenture’s V&A legal and business teams in evaluation of Data issues for acquisition targets, development and implementation of post-merger integration strategy; • Strategic Alliance & Partnerships: interact with Resale and/or Strategic Partnering teams to help shape new strategic alliances and partnerships, including capability sourcing via vendor and resale/agency transactions;

Any Graduation