SAP Senior Legal Counsel 

Netherlands, North Brabant, 's-Hertogenbosch 

48038182

Based in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, you will be a part of the EMEA Field Legal Team and will provide legal expertise for SAP and its business team in the Netherlands. 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 areas such as procurement, bankruptcy, marketing and compliance. As part of the local legal team you will:

• Support several sales and/or related business teams, providing legal advice and counselling primarily on agreements for Cloud and Professional services, as well as on a wide variety of matters, including intellectual property, licensing and data privacy
• Need to demonstrate the ability to draft and negotiate complex agreements, working with SAP’s Commercial Support 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.
• Have the ability to work with a team across a wide organization is critical.
• Spends a significant amount of time in customer facing negotiations.

What you´ll do

• 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, Commercial Support 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.

What you bring

• Qualified as a lawyer in the Netherlands with existing in-house experience specialised in commercial contracts.
• Excellent drafting and negotiating skills, experience and expertise in negotiating key terms for services agreements, such as data protection, data analysis, security, compliance/regulatory, limitation of liability terms, etc.
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload independently.
• Hands-on, confident, autonomous, self-motivated and must enjoy working within a changing and dynamic organisation, able to work under pressure and strong enough to stand own ground.
• Strong interpersonal, leadership and communications skills.
• Excellent Dutch and English language skills – written and oral.
• Good time management and organisational skills.
• Ability to provide timely responses to internal client base, providing sound and crisp legal advice with appropriate business perspective.
• Able to influence colleagues at all levels of the organization.

Work experience

• Minimal 3-5 years of appropriate legal experience.
• Experience of providing legal services to different business teams, in particular, sales teams.
• Experience in the cloud (software-as-a-service) sector is strongly preferred.

This role is based in the Netherlands because of customer proximity requirements and we can only consider candidates which will not require a relocation.

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