The key aspects and responsibilities of your role will be:
Draft and negotiate contracts based on client templates, in a timely manner with appropriate legal support to ensure compliance with client standards
Past experience with drafting agreements in following areas IT, Marketing, Professional Services, Facilities, MRO. Specific experience within the Pharma industry highly desirable
Coordinate and perform contract analysis, including redlines and negotiations with client legal and other stakeholders, as well as suppliers to
Negotiate business terms and collaborate, coordinate, and be able to explain risks and implications of contract terms to the business and other stakeholders.
Complete gap analyses, review, redline, and understand contract language, risks and implications of such language.
Draft commercial terms as needed.
Prepare and disseminate information regarding contract status, compliance and modifications as well as partnering with cross functional teams to maintain effective contracting procedures and ensuring adherence to regional global category strategies
Consulting and escalating positioning issues which are not solved satisfactorily by the project team in a timely manner
Ensure that at all times written guidelines and client policies are followed and or required SME input is obtained throughout the process e.g. privacy, finance, international and domestic taxation, customs and trade, information security, systems quality, software asset management, etc.
Manage multiple projects independently with the ability to resolve negotiation issues in a timely manner, escalating as appropriate and push a deal through to execution
Manage projects within Accenture s proprietary or client workflow tools to document each step of the contract formation process.
Maintenance and facilitation of records including updates, amendments and archiving of inactive contracts based on client schedule and requests.
Job Qualifications
What skills, qualifications and competencies do I need:
Legal degree with between 2- 4 years of experience, or relevant contract management experience required with between 4 6 years of experience
In depth experience working with a variety of contract types i.e. preparing, reviewing and negotiating and contract processes
Be able to identify legal risk in various contract types
Must be able to recognize, identify and clearly be able to explain business and convey legal positions
Impactful experience working within cross functional and or global teams of contracting and or procurement professionals and aligning with established performance expectations
Internal stakeholder management, data information management, category management, process review, project management and performance reporting skills
Procurement process knowledge, contract management, supplier analysis, supplier diversity, supplier management, technology utilization experience is an advantage
Experience with contract reporting desirable i.e. total number of contracts, number of suppliers under contract, and other indicators to assess progress and effectiveness of the contract function
Experience responding to inquiries regarding contract obligations and redlines revisions
Demonstrated a results driven approach, in a team setting where team members are not directly located within the same geography
Strong client management skills
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Word.
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, Czech and Polish.
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.