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Cisco Principal Corporate Counsel France, Ile-de-France 664221212
27.01.2025
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Your Role and Responsibilities will include:
- Negotiating complex deals on Cisco and customer templates, often adapting terms to local laws, in French with our major Enterprise and public sector customers. (eg. Large sales agreements, software licensing cloud agreements, software-as-a-service agreements, IP and DP agreements and services agreements) in line with Cisco’s business strategy, policies, and practices
- Negotiating Data Processing agreements and in general support the business on legal advices on privacy and work with the privacy cross functional team
- Consistently applying Cisco legal and business policies and practices to maintain the highest standards of corporate governance on compliance and address any COBC or compliance questions.
- Engaging in cross-functional projects as a legal subject-matter expert
- Developing and delivering presentations/legal trainings on a wide range of compliance and regulatory topics for the Sales team and local management.
- Participating in the Country Leadership Board and the France Leadership Team
- Serving as a business partner and advisor to the General Manager, Finance, and Government Affairs.
- Coaching and supervising junior resources and interns
Minimum Qualificationswe look for:
- At least 6 years of commercial and corporate law experience obtained at a top law firm and multinational legal department
- Excellent written and oral skills in English and French are essential, fluency in other languages will be considered a plus
- Willingness to travel as required by the business
Preferred Professional Experience:
- You have supported complex negotiations with large customers in France, especially in the public sector.
- You have extensive knowledge of technology contract matters including intellectual property, software licensing, managed services, cloud agreements, SaaS agreements, cloud, data protection and security and possibly also artificial intelligence.
- You possess seasoned judgment to advise on a wide rage of regulatory and compliance matters, particularly under French law, a track record of driving change efficiently and leading key projects that make a durable impact in the legal department.
Your General Skills:
- Excellent drafting skills – including an eagle-eye for detail and a creative outlook
- Readiness to support and help finalize dynamic complex sales agreements against demanding deadlines and processes;
- Being an enabler with a “can-do”, dedicated, and flexible attitude guided by sound judgement
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and take ownership of work
- Being a teammate focused on developing relationships with both business clients and international team members
- Ability to concisely and persuasively express and convey ideas both in writing and verbally
- Well-developed organizational skills for smooth simultaneous management of multiple projects
- Knowledge how to operate efficiently in a highly-automated environment heavily dependent on e-enabled tools and communications systems
- You have an open, ethical mind, and a sense of humor
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