Senior Legal Counsel

at  SAP

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SAP is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to work within its Field Legal Team in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region. Based in Prague, you will be a part of the EMEA Field Legal Team and will provide legal expertise for SAP and its business teams across the region. Primary responsibilities include drafting and negotiating multiple cloud, service, license, and related technology agreements with customers and suppliers to help achieve SAP’s business growth strategies and objectives, within SAP risk tolerances, while maintaining SAP policies, and complying with applicable laws. In addition, you may support other business areas such as marketing and bankruptcy. You will act as a prime contact for the relevant sales and/or related business teams and provide legal advice and counseling focusing primarily on agreements for services, as well as on a wide variety of matters, including intellectual property, licensing and data privacy.
You will need to demonstrate the ability to draft and negotiate complex agreements, working with SAP’s Centralized Deal Support (“CDS”) and Commercial Finance teams in their drafting of cloud agreements (focusing on the legal aspects), work 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. This position spends a significant amount of time in customer facing negotiations. Experience in the cloud (software-as-a-service) sector is strongly preferred.

• Effectively structure, draft, redline, and negotiate with customers and suppliers complex terms and agreements including cloud agreements, software licensing, professional services agreements, data processing agreements, etc. in support of SAP’s business.
• Work closely with internal Sales, Pricing, Revenue Recognition, CDS and procurement teams during the drafting and negotiation process.
• Serve as an escalation point for Shared Services, Commercial, and Sales Teams for legal and contracting issues.
• Support SAP’s corporate business goals and objectives by serving as a true business partner, balancing legal risks appropriately against the commercial objectives whilst ensuring compliance with all relevant policies and procedures of SAP.
• Identify contractual risks and suggest alternatives that lead to optimal solutions. Working cross-functionally with sales, finance, and operations teams to ensure that contractual terms are compliant with legal, regulatory, and company policies and risk preferences.
• The ability to integrate legal, business, technical, and practical analysis, and a high level of motivation, are essential.
• Assist in handling various field and corporate legal matters, including but not limited to, bankruptcy, privacy, IP and claims management.
• Assist with special projects as assigned.