SAP Senior Legal Counsel - Commercial South 

China, Shaanxi 

452734409

Key accountabilities of the role are to:

• Effectively structure, draft, redline, and negotiate complex terms and agreements with customers, including cloud agreements, software licensing, professional services agreements, and data processing agreements, to support SAP’s cloud and software business.
• Collaborate closely with internal Sales, Pricing, Revenue Recognition, and Commercial Business Partner deal support teams throughout the drafting and negotiation process.
• Serve as an escalation point for the Commercial Business Partners 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.
• Identify contractual risks and propose alternatives leading to optimal solutions; work cross-functionally with sales, finance, security, and operations teams to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, company policies, and risk preferences.
• Integrate legal, business, technical, and practical analysis with high motivation.
• Assist in managing various field and corporate legal matters, including privacy, security, intellectual property, template and playbook management, and dispute resolution.
• Undertake special projects as assigned by the Assistant General Counsel.

EDUCATION & SKILLS

• Juris Doctor from an A.B.A. accredited law school.
• Over 7 years of relevant legal experience in the cloud and technology sector.
• Expertise in negotiating key provisions of cloud agreements, such as data privacy, security, artificial intelligence, compliance/regulatory issues, and indemnities and limitation of liability clauses.
• Proven experience in providing legal counsel to sales teams.
• Strong interpersonal, leadership and communications skills.
• Active membership in at least one state bar.

LOCATION

• Must be hybrid, with at least three days per week onsite at a U.S. location near an SAP office—preferably in Atlanta, Newtown Square, or Chicago.

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