SAP Senior Legal Counsel 

United States, Illinois, Naperville 

385631940

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE

Legal Counsel toIn addition, the position requires knowledge of data privacy and security laws. You will act as a prime contact for the relevant sales and related business teams and provide legal advice and counseling on a wide variety of matters, including intellectual property, licensing, services transactions, and license compliance matters.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work directly with customers to prepare, negotiate, and draft direct customer contracts. Responsible for negotiating and resolving contract issues in all company lines of business, including without limitation licensing services and development agreements.
• Work closely with internal Contracts, Sales, Pricing, and Revenue Recognition teams during the drafting and negotiation process.
• Verify customer user and pricing information provided in the Order Form with Quotation tools provided by Account Executive, and work with Revenue Recognition team to ensure final business and contract terms do not cause revenue deferral.
• Support of Internal Line(s) of Business and/or Practice Area(s) – Support business leaders and teams on various issues related to such areas.
• Support might include overseeing outside counsel, working on a matrix team with the business, helping to develop/support new programs, etc.
• Internal Customer Support: interface with sales, services account teams, their management, and other lines of business representatives to provide support and training as well as knowledge transfer.
• Advise personnel of the legal ramifications of past and proposed actions, and formulate solutions to problems.
• Anticipate problems and initiate actions to resolve them using professional qualifications and experience and in accord with company policies and procedures.
• At the direction of General Counsel or Assistant General Counsel, collaborate with legal colleagues (global and local) and relevant F/A functions with respect to the creation of new or updated programs, development of contract templates, manuals, and other materials in support of such programs in accord with SAP policy and procedure, while mitigating risk to the company and achieving regional/global consistency
• Special Projects: Perform special projects as assigned by the supervisor.

EDUCATION AND SKILLS

• Juris Doctor - Graduation from A.B.A. accredited law school
• At least 3-5 years’ experience with software/Cloud licensing.
• Preference is experience and expertise in negotiating key terms for Cloud agreements, such as data protection, data analysis, security, compliance/regulatory, limitation of liability terms, etc.
• Strong interpersonal, leadership and communications skills.

• Experience in providing legal counsel to sales teams
• Active membership in at least one state bar

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