SAP Lead Senior Legal Counsel 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

496617491

The key accountabilities of the role are to:

• Work with the Japan MU executive team as required to help ensure the legal needs of the Japan MU are met and to provide legal advice.
• Mentor, support and assist in development of the Japan legal team.
• Work with local and regional deal support teams to resolve issues, manage escalations and streamline deal support for transactions.
• Work with APAC regional legal leadership on projects and regional initiatives, including supporting transactions in other parts of the APAC region as required
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws, working closely with other legal colleagues, the regulatory and government affairs teams and the Office of Ethics and Compliance.
• Assist with the legal aspects of customer escalations and disputes, and engage outside counsel as necessary.
• Effectively structure, draft, redline, and negotiate with customers, complex terms and agreements in support of SAP’s Cloud and Services business.
• Work closely with internal Sales and Deal Support teams during the drafting and negotiation process.
• Work with sales, finance, and operations teams to ensure that contractual terms are compliant with legal, regulatory, and company policies and risk preferences.

Education and Skills

• Tertiary qualifications in Law from an accredited law school.
• Licensed to practice law in Japan (must have practising certificate/admitted to practice).
• Excellent/ fluent written and oral English and Japanese business language skills.
• Customer-service mindset, with strong written, communication and interpersonal skills with a high attention to detail.
• Team player with the ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams and communicate in a timely and responsive manner.
• Strongly preferred is experience and expertise in negotiating key terms for Cloud Agreements, such as data protection, security, compliance/regulatory and limitation of liability terms.
• You think critically, identify issues quickly, and you are able to examine multiple aspects and perspectives.
• You are able to represent the team to other board areas and cross-functional teams within SAP and are able to represent SAP to external customers on specific subject matter topics within your field of expertise.

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