Contract Specialist

Accenture Southeast Asia (Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand)

Bangkok, Thailand

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 732,000 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 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 Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships.

About this position

Contract Specialists assist with managing clients in a manner that maximises value for Accenture and clients. They operate in close collaboration with sales and delivery teams and provide support throughout the entire contract lifecycle including pre-award, contract delivery and closeout.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Leadership/Engagement:
• Provide contract administration support for CM processes as part of a contract management team on a specific project or account;
• Work with delivery and client counterparts to assist with day to day service delivery;
• Demonstrate the value of the contract management function with project teams; and
• Work with client contract management teams in order to understand delivery requirements.
People & Portfolio Management / Development:
• Work with offshore staff, providing oversight of day to day activities;
• Participate in the review of performance standards for junior contract management staff;
• Provide input for priority setting and performance achievement process for self and junior staff; and
• Participate in the development of training modules for contract management staff on a specific project or account.
Risk & Issue Management:
• Assist with reporting, documenting commercial and contract risks and issues, following up with contract management leads to coordinate completion of open actions;
• Escalate contractual, commercial and CM positioning matters to CM Leads in a timely and controlled fashion; and
• Assist with drafting weekly, monthly and quarterly reports in compliance with contract management processes and account delivery requirements.
Sales Support:
• Provide contract administrative support for sales teams, coordinating the document management process; and
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of Accenture's consulting, outsourcing and systems integration service offerings.
Contracting, Drafting and Negotiation:
• Assist with drafting and review of Statements of Work, Change Requests, Arrangement Letters, Contract Memorandum etc., working under the direction of a contract management lead; and
• Observe and/or participate in negotiations under the direction of account leads.
Commercial and Contract Management Processes:
• Provide day to day administration and support for contract management processes on a specific project or account;
• Assist with the development of a contract awareness programme for an account team highlighting critical contract terms and conditions and Accenture.

Requirements

• Must be capable of managing contracts and subcontracts in accordance with company policies and procedures, applicable laws and client business requirements.
• Generally co-located with Accenture business/client units and project teams.
• Expected to maintain a high level of visibility on the account as they perform their contract management responsibilities.
• May also organise, control and direct the work activities of a team of offshore contract management professionals and other related engagement staff allocated to a business or client unit, acting as a role model for contract management staff and a trusted partner to the business.