Senior Principal or Principal Director, Legal and CLM Reinvention

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In Accenture Legal and CLM Reinvention, our mission is to help our clients re-engineer Legal and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) delivery across their enterprise, leveraging Accenture's expertise and market-leading capabilities in scaled process design, change management, technology, data and AI / ML, as well as our global managed services.

Our Legal and CLM professionals sit in our Strategy & Consulting business, designing and implementing complex transformation projects that integrate strategy, people, technology, digital and AI / ML to enable end-to-end op model and value-driven reinvention for clients.

We focus on enabling world class outcomes for our clients' corporate legal departments, CLOs, Legal Ops teams as well as business or functional buyers wishing to transform their CLM capabilities, such as Chief Procurement Officers, Chief Revenue Officers and CIOs.

The Work

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced and ambitious consultant to join our global team and help to shape the future of our offerings as we expand our footprint in the dynamic sectors of legal and CLM transformation.

We are looking for a senior individual with demonstrated consulting experience in the fields of Legal transformation, Legal Ops and / or CLM process / functional transformation.

You Are

Individuals in this role will have prior experience with :

• Legal and / or CLM operating model assessment, design and transformation execution
• Identifying opportunities for clients to improve and transform their operating models, synthesizing assessment data, prioritizing focus areas and holding value-based conversations with senior client stakeholders
• Solutioning transformation and Legal and / or CLM managed services projects
• Selecting, implementing, and optimizing Enterprise Legal Management platforms (e.g. TeamConnect, Onit, Passport, Brightflag)
• Automation of Legal and / or CLM workflows
• Legal and / or CLM technology strategy
• End-to-End Legal and / or CLM capabilities and processes
• Familiarity with common CLM tech platforms

A professional at this position level within Accenture has these responsibilities :

• Lead and manage the delivery of projects through all phases based on Accenture's cost and financial metrics, including client interactions, key stakeholders, PMO, and onshore / offshore resources to ensure the project is delivered to the quality, budget, and timeline expectations.
• Contribute to strategy and planning for the fast-growing Legal and CLM Reinvention business
• Identify, progress and close new business development opportunities by building both internal and external network of professionals
• Lead and prepare responses to request for proposals, including interaction with prospective clients to understand the opportunities and provide solutions to meet client requests.
• Prepare business case, solution options, project plans, estimates, staffing requirements and execution approach and use them as part of proposal to the client.
• Demonstrate though-leadership across areas of Legal and CLM transformation.
• Interact with senior management at a client and / or within Accenture on various matters. When addressing complex scenarios, can articulate alternate options and get acceptance of the alternative approach.
• Supervise and mentor our talent across the practice area

Basic Qualifications :

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in Legal / Legal Ops consulting and / or CLM consulting at a recognized consulting firm or ALSP
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in ELM solution implementation
• Leader on a minimum of 3 complex Legal and / or CLM transformation projects for major corporations through entire project lifecycle
• Experience selecting, implementing and optimizing LegalTech
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university / college

Preferred Qualifications :

• MBA or master's degree from an accredited business or graduate school
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Lean Six Sigma
• Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP)
• Knowledge in technologies such as Gen AI tools, RPAs, BI platforms.

Travel in this position will range from 0-100%.

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Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $131,100 to $336,900

Colorado $131,100 to $291,100

District of Columbia $139,600 to $309,900

New York $121,400 to $336,900

Maryland $121,400 to $269,500

Washington $139,600 to $309,900

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