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SAP’s Global Licensing & Royalty Management organization is responsible for partnering with third party providers, in order to negotiate and acquire the rights to use and integrate third-party Intellectual Properties (software, web/cloud services, content, etc.) into SAP products and solutions, in accordance with SAP Product Licensing standards. As a function, Global Licensing also manages the lifecycle of third-party agreements; ensures SAP’s compliance with third party contractual requirements; and approves third-party IP usage in SAP products and solutions, per negotiated terms. We work in close cooperation with SAP Development and Product Lines of Business, with Tech Legal, Global Support, Finance Controlling, Partner Ecosystem organizations, Field Sales areas, etc.
In short, we help to enable and expedite the creation of amazing SAP products and services.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 7+ years experience

Specific tasks include the following:

• Negotiate high-visibility and strategic inbound third-party agreements, which includes presenting templates to potential partners, providing clarifications, aligning and coordinating internal teams, and owning the responsive-redline
• Be the SAP point-person and coordinate response and resolution to various partner-relationship challenging situations
• Review third-party agreements and/or online terms and assess them against the SAP standard terms & conditions
• Prepare & present approval requests, risk assessments and mitigation plans, in close cooperation with other stakeholders
• Perform reviews of existing agreements, in support of Licensing Validation requests
• Provide guidance regarding Commercial Inbound Licensing-related processes and policies, to internal and external stakeholders
• Coordinate and execute special and complex ad-hoc tasks
• Manage the contract life-cycle, including drafting and executing amendments, handling terminations, renewals, supporting partners with general contract administration topics, etc.
• The role will entail taking ownership of a portfolio of existing and new partner agreements
• Support defined projects across Global Licensing & Royalty Management, taking over work packages and workstreams