Contract Associate Manager

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Contract Management is part of our Legal and Commercial Services. Our professionals bring innovative ideas to commercial reality with a focus on maximizing value for all parties through a deep understanding of legal, business and commercial risks.

We work alongside Accenture sales and delivery teams throughout the entire contract lifecycle to provide high quality advice and support for negotiation, drafting and ongoing management of client contracts.

We apply commercial and contractual expertise to lead the delivery of legal & commercial outcomes for our priority engagements and portfolios, including :

• Sales growth : expanding the footprint of our agreements and supporting new business.
• Revenue protection : delivering on our contractual commitments.
• Margin improvement : effectively managing commercial levers, risks and issues; and
• Compliance with contract obligations and Accenture policy.

Key Responsibilities :

Lead / support contract management teams across projects and accounts; work with account leadership, client commercial and business stakeholders to understand and support client needs and priorities;

account strategy, objectives and opportunities.

• Work with contract management staff across multiple projects and accounts providing input into performance management activities.
• Support the identification, escalation and resolution of commercial and contract risks and issues working with CM and project leadership to ensure the best outcome for all parties.
• Engage in pre-award sales activities, engage in discussions with delivery team regarding potential deal shaping and contractual outcomes with sales teams and business leadership, including contract drafting support.
• The contract management function is client facing and has a key role in building trusted relationships with client counterparts.

Basic Qualifications :

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in contract management
• Bachelor's degree required
• French and English language proficiency
• English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language.

Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience and demonstrated capability in conducting and supervising investigations (including compliance-related investigations, employment investigations, and governmental investigations) and in drafting confidential reports and advising senior leadership on such risks.
• In-depth knowledge of local ethical / conduct / compliance-related risks, employee rights and obligations, and related laws
• Extensive experience in employee relations and workplace investigations
• Able to collaborate and communicate effectively with client executives at all levels of the organization
• Basic understanding of commercial contracting regulations and principles, subcontracting practices; and commercial contracting terms and conditions.
• Member of World Commerce and Contracting (previously International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)) or National Contract Management Association (NCMA) and / or professional certification considered a plus.

Professional Qualifications :

• Open to work with and understand cross-cultures and locations throughout the Accenture global organization.
• Understand the value of diversity and recognize the strengths that different styles, innovative perspectives and experiences bring to Accenture.
• Demonstrate inclusion and respect for all individuals regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, age, disability, culture, social status and / or sexuality.
• Leader as well as team player, collaborative and persuasive; able to work well with executives and non-executives

Work Requirements :

Some travel may be required.

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 742,000 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 Al with unmatched

industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to

deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across

Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities,

together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 3600 value, enable us

to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by

the 3600 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and

communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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Like Canada itself, Accenture employees represent a tremendous variety of cultures, ethnicities, beliefs, backgrounds and languages.

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