Legal Professional with Dutch

Job description

This will be your future team:

Our Global Legal Network team is a small family of legal professionals with diverse cultures and languages. We have the exclusive aim to provide quality legal support to our Accenture business teams and a variety of internal stakeholders, mainly in Europe. Every day brings new situations, tasks and challenges. Each member of our team has his/her own tasks to complete but whenever the situation requires, we support each other or back up our colleagues. We care about our teammates and like to gather outside of the office for team/company events. Since we are part of the Global Legal Network this position has the possibility of being located in various locations - Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania.

This will be your future role:

In your role, you will provide legal support directly to the commercial teams, to Accenture's legal team and a variety of other internal (business) stakeholders mainly situated in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg (mostly remotely). Your typical work tasks will consist of documenting, reviewing, drafting and negotiating terms and conditions of various agreements (e.g. arrangement letters, proposals, software license agreements, NDAs, data processor agreements). You will guide internal stakeholders in managing contractual relationships with clients and matters related to compliance by using your knowledge in (local) law and applying the Company policies/rules and corporate governance.

As Accenture performs through a fully integrated global delivery model, you will liaise and collaborate with colleagues spread all over the globe and enjoy a daily exposure to diverse cultures, a panoply of learning opportunities (training in supported areas) and plentiful occasions to work on deals ‘in the New' (Digital, Software Products and Platforms, Cloud, Security and so on).

Desired profile

Qualifications :

This is what you already have:

• Completed Law Degree

• Fluency (incl. at legal level) of Dutch and English. French is considered a plus

• A professional, positive attitude

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• 2-5 years of work experience in a private corporation or law firm, experience with contracting/IT matters is a merit

• Proficiency in using Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Word

• Ability to:

o quickly and sharply analyze legal requests/queries

o review, redline & negotiate client contracts and agreements

o exercise good judgment to apply or support the application of company policy and procedures in risk mitigation

o set priorities and juggle multiple demand

o coach junior team members

o to work in a team & independently