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SAP is seeking an experienced lawyer with 5+ years post qualification legal experience to work as part of the SAP Asia Pacific Japan (“APJ”) legal team, with a focus on the SAP Australia and New Zealand market unit (the “Market Unit” or “MU”). You will work closely with and as part of the regional APJ legal team and your primary responsibilities will include drafting and negotiating technology cloud, license, service and related agreements to help achieve SAP’s business growth strategies and objectives. All legal work must be carried out within SAP’s risk tolerances, while maintaining SAP policies, and complying with applicable laws. In addition, the position will work with other internal lines of business/practice areas such as finance, marketing, procurement, and bid management. You will provide legal advice and counseling on a wide variety of matters, including intellectual property, licensing, data privacy, and license compliance matters.
The role involves working with sales and services professionals, pricing and revenue recognition teams, and others, in a fast-paced environment. The ability to work with a team across a wide organization is critical. Experience in the Cloud (software as a service) and with Australian government contracting is beneficial.

EDUCATION AND SKILLS

• Graduation from accredited law school
• Qualified to practice law in Australia.
• Preferably you have experience in negotiating Software as a Service agreements and/ or other technology related agreements.
• You are a team player and able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• You understand and are able to work according to the commercial pressures of a sales business in a dynamic and at times high pressure environment.
• You think critically, are able to identify issues and are confident to discuss these with team members and legal management to enable quick resolution.
• You are creative and demonstrate the ability to “think outside of the box”, meaning that you know when to follow established guidelines, but you are also able suggest and seek approval for alternative approaches that further the objectives and goals of the Company within our risk and compliance framework.
• You build and maintain collaborative relationships with peers, internal clients, and external customers and clearly convey processes, policies, and advice in a manner that others can easily grasp, both in terms of the rationale used and the consequences of proposed solutions.
• You are able to represent SAP to external customers on specific subject matter topics within your field of expertise.

• Work with local and regional deal support teams to draft contracts, resolve issues and streamline deal support for transactions.
• Work as part of the ANZ and APJ legal teams to manage and respond to requests for legal support and participate in regional legal initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws and work closely with the SAP Office of Ethics and Compliance on compliance topics.
• Draft, redline, and negotiate terms and agreements with customers, including software-as-a-service agreements, software licensing, professional services agreements and data processing agreements in support of SAP’s Cloud and Services business.
• Work closely with internal Sales and Deal Support teams during the drafting and negotiation process.
• Work with sales, finance, and operations teams to ensure that contractual terms are compliant with legal, regulatory, and company policies and risk preferences.