Regional Legal Lead SEA - NRR 3842

Legal professionals at Accenture deliver and coordinate legal, contract and commercial advice and counsel in support of Accenture and our clients' business objectives, working to manage and mitigate risk and ensure compliance with laws and company policies. Accenture offers a compelling mix of work and training opportunities, work environment and structure for career progression.

Job Summary:

You will support Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, which is a leader in cloud services, AI, and sustainable industry solutions within the Microsoft ecosystem. Avanade focuses on mid-market clients with revenues ranging from $500 million to $5 billion, providing agile and high-value IT services. In this role, you will advise business leadership on legal risks and guide clients through contracting processes. You will drive growth by winning clients with creativity and innovative legal strategies, even in smaller deals. High agility and urgency are essential to manage a high volume of deals with shorter cycles and shifting priorities. You will make informed decisions and take calculated risks to propel the business forward. Your role will involve balancing ease of collaboration with the need to avoid undue risk to Avanade. You will also balance the aggressive expansion of Avanade’s recurring platform business with providing customized, high-touch legal services for select clients who prefer traditional contract negotiations. As an independent advisor on legal and commercial risks, you will support Legal, Business, and Sales Leadership in shaping Avanade’s mid-market strategies. We achieve this by being bold, fresh, passionate, and optimistic.

As Avanade’s Regional Legal Lead for South East Asia (SEA), you will be responsible for leading, structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex client transactions in a dynamic corporate environment. This includes master services agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements, requests for proposals, and agreements involving cloud, security, artificial intelligence, systems integration, and agile development.

You will oversee the delivery of a variety of in-house legal services that support the business in achieving its goals while ensuring all areas of risk and compliance are managed effectively. You will collaborate with business management, business development executives, contract coordinators, internal business units, and other support functions. Additionally, you will manage a team to provide the necessary legal support to the business.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead, structure, negotiate and close Avanade’s complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective
• Work with finance, solution and commercial teams to identify and manage issues across the transaction and architect workable solutions
• Work with deal teams to develop effective negotiating strategies
• Form part of the negotiation team and lead the legal negotiations to conclude the contractual documents
• Manage the escalation process for key legal and commercial risks
• counsel, guide, train and support other members of the legal team, including building the legal team’s negotiation and core deal-shaping skills and acumen
• Provide general legal advice and guidance to other business units including Operations, Human Resources, Finance, Sales and Marketing.
• Proactively manage and ensure all corporate compliance and company secretarial obligations are met for the business.
• Resolve issues and disputes, minimize potential for litigation and foster protection of Accenture and Avanade’s reputation.
• Actively participate in global legal initiatives, develop and present training initiatives for the benefit of the global legal team and the business.
• Also as a member of the Avanade SEA Leadership Team, support the business to meet its goals; including strategising with Avanade executives regarding legal issues that affect the company.
• 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 or 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 Accenture and Avanade Legal’s initiatives
• Embrace and evolve to gain expertise in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, an architect, as well as a business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology-enabled Contracting lawyer

Relationships:

• Reports to: Avanade General Counsel APAC

• Supervises: Direct supervisory responsibility of the Avanade SEA Legal Team
  External Relationships: Accenture and Avanade client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel.

• Qualifications:

• LLB or JD (or equivalent)
• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one South East Asian jurisdiction
• Minimum 7 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 inhouse role in a relevant industry
• Minimum of 3 years of experience negotiating intellectual property and data privacy issues
• Minimum of 2 years working in a law firm as an associate
• Understanding of and experience in SEA Governments procurement desirableKnowledge and Skill Requirements:
• Accomplished negotiator with an understanding of principle-based negotiation strategy and tactics including the ability to present alternatives with proposed solutions
• Superior communication skills, particularly with respect to active listening to and integrating information from various sources quickly and communicating legal advice in a practical form in a business context
• 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 and ability to present to, and engage as a credible peer with, both Accenture, Avanade and client senior management
• 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 
• Accenture is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Accenture is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Accenture will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Accenture encourages applicants of all ages.

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