SAP Senior Legal Counsel 

United Kingdom, England, London 

634764782

What you'll do:

The required legal advice will range across cloud, software licensing and consulting contracts, and general legal topics. This role would particulary suit a commercial lawyer from within the Technology Services industry.

The successful candidate will:

• Report to the Head of the UK Legal team and Deputy Regional General Counsel in EMEA.
• Be part of the UK legal team and as part of the SAP Global Legal. You will work closely with the UK business and UK legal team.
• Be primarily responsible for legal work to one of the UK sales divisions.
• Act as the primary negotiator for complex commercial contracts with SAP customers and partners and provide trusted legal advice to SAP’s management.
• Ensure that company business strategies are applied in recognition of legal implications and risks.
• Ensure that all contracts are in compliance with SAP’s legal, contractual and business processes and policies.
• Report legal disputes, legal aspects of customer escalations, and interact with outside counsel as necessary.
• Contribute to the overall success of SAP’s business and be recognised as a business partner with an understanding of SAPs business objectives and cloud strategy.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and partner with account executives and sales managers and the wider SAP team such as Finance, Commercial and Revenue Recognition.
• Work closely with the SAP’s Office of Ethics & Compliance, and ensure an appropriate level of internal governance is in place in relation to transactions and other business activities.
• Understand and work according to the commercial pressures of a sales business in a high-pressure environment.

What you bring:

• A qualified English lawyer with excellent working knowledge of Contract and IT Laws with a minimum of 5 years post admission experience.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and drafting skills.
• IT and IP legal experience.
• Working knowledge of Data Privacy and Data Protection Laws such as GDPR.
• Experience in negotiating commercial contracts with customers/partners.
• Works well with the other UK lawyers who are expected to support and operate as a team.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment and cope well with pressure (including quarter end pressures).
• Works independently and creatively (whilst keeping critical stakeholders informed), collaborates well with different parts of the global organisation and responds effectively to SAP’s sales and management teams.

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