Employment Law Senior Manager

JOB SUMMARY: Accenture Legal encompasses ~3000 lawyers, contract management and other professionals in 47 countries, making us amongst the biggest in-house units of our kind globally.The Employment Law Team sits within the Compliance, Offerings, Regulat
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Qualified lawyer with post-qualification experience within an Employment Law team, in private practice and/or – ideally – in an in-house environment.
Work Experience: We anticipate hiring a candidate with a minimum of around 10 years post qualification experience, but we will review applications from all levels of post qualification experience.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
· Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
· Enthusiasm for continuous learning.
· Able to present innovative, original solutions which understand our business, and to act as a strategic thinker.
· Leader as well as team player, collaborative, and persuasive; able to work well with a wide range of personnel, across many roles and levels.
· Understand the value of diversity and recognize the strengths that unique styles, innovative perspectives and experiences bring to Accenture.
· Demonstrate respect for individuals regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, or other personal characteristics.
· Strong time management, prioritization, and project management skills.
· Build trust-based relationships – through interpersonal skills and by delivering on commitments.
· Preferably, some exposure to cross-border work or European projects.
BEHAVIOURS AND ATTRIBUTES:
WORK REQUIREMENTS:
Ability to work flexibly, including from home as well as in the office.
ADDITIONAL DESIRABLE CRITERIA:
PERMANENT TRANSFER REQUIREMENTS [For Internal Applicants]:
· Not Applicable
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 approximately 791,000 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 AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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