Legal Counsel - Commercial

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVESAP is seeking a Legal Counsel to work within its Field Legal Organization in the Americas region. You will be a part of the North America Field Legal Team and will provide legal expertise for SAP and its business teams, particularly SAP’s sales teams in the Southern United States, the South Market Unit. Primary responsibilities include drafting and negotiating multiple complex technology cloud service, license, and related agreements to help achieve SAP’s business growth strategies and objectives, within SAP risk tolerances, while maintaining SAP policies, and complying with applicable laws. You will act as a prime contact for the relevant sales and related business teams and provide legal advice and counseling focusing primarily on cloud agreements, as well as on a wide variety of matters, including contract strategy and interpretation, data privacy, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and license compliance matters. In addition, the position might support other internal lines of business/practice areas such as marketing, third-party licensing, bankruptcy, and procurement.You will need to demonstrate the ability to draft and negotiate complex agreements, working with SAP’s Commercial Business Partners 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. The ability to work with a team across a wide organization is critical. This position spends a significant amount of time in customer-facing negotiations. Experience in the cloud (software-as-a-service) sector is strongly preferred.KEY RESPONSIBILITIESEffectively structure, draft, redline, and negotiate with customers complex terms and agreements including cloud, security, data processing, software license, and professional services agreements in support of SAP’s cloud and software business.Work closely with internal Sales, Pricing, Revenue Recognition, and Commercial Business Partner deal support teams during the drafting and negotiation process.Serve as an escalation point for 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 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, privacy, security, intellectual property, template and playbook management, and dispute resolution.Assist with special projects as assigned by the Assistant General Counsel.EDUCATION AND SKILLSJuris Doctor - Graduation from A.B.A. accredited law school.At least 3-5 years of relevant legal experience in the cloud and technology sector.Preference is experience and expertise in negotiating key terms for Cloud agreements, such as data protection, data analysis, security, artificial intelligence, compliance/regulatory, limitation of liability terms, etc.Experience in providing legal counsel to sales teams.Strong interpersonal, leadership, and communications skills.Active membership in at least one state bar.Location Requirements:

located near the SAP offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Newtown Square, PA, or New York City. Relocation fees will not be paid by the company.Compensation Range Transparency : SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. The targeted combined range for this position is 82,300 - 185,400 USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process.Requisition ID: 402484 | Work Area: Administration | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-HybridPosted Date: Sep 12, 2024Location: Chicago, IL, US, 60606

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