Procurement Contract Senior Analyst with any Europ

You Are

Legal and Commercial Services professionals deliver and coordinate legal, contract and commercial advice and counsel in support of Accenture's or our clients' business, working to manage and mitigate risk and ensure ethical behavior and compliance with laws and company policies. The Procurement Contract Associate Manager will provide contract, drafting, negotiation, and execution support to customers on complex contracts. In addition, the Associate Manager will identify improvement opportunities within client processes and implement solutions to increase efficiency and best practices.

The Work

You will act in a paralegal capacity supporting Accenture’s clients and procurement teams with:

• Support Contract Specialists with drafting and contract formation of medium to high complexity based on pre-existing templates and contract facilitation and execution according to the contracting processes;

• Acting as the main liaison between Accenture Contract Specialists teams and the client’s main stakeholder with the ability to influence and guide;

• Lead contract templates and contracting process revisions and improvements;

• Lead contracting process analytics and reporting efforts, and presenting them to clients;

• Lead medium size teams of Contract Specialists in cross-functional project teams;

• Lead training and development efforts for Contract Specialists on contract review and drafting;

• Accountable for client satisfaction in area of responsibility against service level agreements, and ensuring achievement of key performance indicators/project milestones;

• Provide subject matter expertise across all common types of indirect procurement and outsourcing contracts, and create market insights capturing contracting best practices and industry trends;

• Support Accenture sales teams in solutioning of new deals for clients;

• Support Accenture service delivery leads.

Here’s What You Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Minimum of 8 years of experience drafting and negotiating contracts

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams

• Knowledge and understanding of the procurement industry, all common types of indirect procurement and outsourcing contracts, market insights, contracting best practices, and industry trends

• Strong analytical skills and experience with contract reporting

• Language capabilities, main language for this role is English, and you need to be highly proficient in one of the following: French, German, Italian, Spanish or any other European language.

Bonus Points:

• Paralegal certificate or law degree is preferred

• Experience managing a team of contract professionals

• Experience working with CLM (Contract Life Cycle Management) tools

Professional Skills:

• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member

• Strong communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

• Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills

• Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with customers and suppliers at various levels of an organization

• Ability to work effectively with multiple customer professionals, in-house lawyers, and suppliers.

• Adaptable communication style to enable conformance with our customers’ varied corporate cultures and organizational structures

• Ability to provide our customers’ positions on issues effectively, and to reach resolution in a positive and efficient manner

OUR BENEFITS

• Work-life balance

• Home office model & flexible working hours

• Work from home contribution

• 5 weeks of vacation, 3 sick days

• Cafeteria, Meal vouchers & MultiSport card

• Well-being and mental health programs.

• Contribution to Language Academy and Life/Pension Insurance.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.   
                                                      
Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

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