Senior Legal Counsel - English and Slovenian Prague, Praha

Senior Legal Counsel - English and Slovenian

**We help the world run better**
**What you´ll do**
Do you want to work in a fast-paced environment and help the world run better and improve people’s lives?
Are you interested in working together with other departments for the success of our customers and the achievement of SAP’s business growth strategies?
We have an interesting opportunity for you!
SAP is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to work within its Field Legal Organization in the Middle & Eastern Europe (MEE) region. Based in Prague, you will be a member of the MEE Field Legal Team and will provide legal expertise for SAP and its business teams, particularly SAP’s sales teams, across the region but with a primary focus on the countries of Southeastern Europe.
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, intellectual property, licensing, data privacy, license compliance matters as well as on a wide variety of other legal matters.
You will be 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. Your internal support will also cover other areas such as marketing, bankruptcy, procurement, etc. Your ability to work with colleagues from different teams, balancing different perspectives and objectives across a wide organization is critical. You will spend a significant amount of time in customer facing negotiations, most of these may be conducted online.
**Expectations and tasks**
- Effectively structure, draft and negotiate with customers complex agreements, including cloud agreements, software licensing, professional services agreements, data processing agreements, etc. in support of SAP’s Cloud, Software, and Services business.
- 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.
- Serve as an escalation point for Shared Services, Commercial, 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.
- 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, bankruptcy, privacy, IP and claims management.
- Assist with special projects.
**What you bring**
- Graduation from accredited law school / meets applicable requirements to practice law
- Experience in Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Croatian or Serbian law is a plus.
- Experience and expertise in negotiating key terms for Cloud Agreements, such as data protection, data analysis, security, compliance/regulatory, limitation of liability terms, etc.
- Strong interpersonal, leadership and communications skills, both written and oral in the specified language(s).
- Excellent/Fluent English and Slovenian language skills at negotiation level - written and oral.
- Romanian, Bulgarian, Croatian or Serbian language skills - written and oral - are a plus.
**Work experience**
- 5-7 years of appropriate legal experience
- Experience in working with sales teams preferred
- Experience in the Cloud (software-as-a-service) sector.
**What you can expect** is professional onboarding, exciting career progression, a diverse work environment providing growth opportunities, learning & development possibilities, and an international business network for you to leverage. Interesting non-work related activities (volunteering, charity, sport events,..)
This role is based at the ultra-modern Metronom office building directly above the Nove Butovice metro station. The location encompasses SAPs vision for the perfect work-life balance by featuring uniquely decorated relaxation rooms, parents and kids room.
**BENEFITS**
Yearly bonuses, sick days paid and sick leaves fully refunded, flexible start/end of working hours, contributions to the pension/life insurance, meal vouchers, holidays 5 weeks, educational courses, coaching and mentoring opportunities, free massage, cafeteria plan, free fitness studio, generous shares program, etc.
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