Legal Counsel

hace 6 meses


Ciudad de México SAP A tiempo completo

**We help the world run better**

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

SAP is seeking a Legal Counsel to work within its Field Legal Organization in the Latin America, Mexico Market Unit. Based in Mexico City, you will be a part of Latin America Mexico Market Unit and will provide legal expertise for SAP and its business teams, particularly SAP’s sales teams, across the region.

Primary responsibilities include 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. In addition, the position might support other internal practice areas such as labor, tax, corporate, marketing, procurement, finance, public sector, etc. You will act as a prime contact for the relevant sales and related business teams and provide legal advice and counseling focusing primarily cloud agreements, as well as on a wide variety of matters, including intellectual property, licensing, data privacy, and license compliance matters.

You will need to demonstrate the ability to negotiate complex agreements, working with different hubs in other parts of the world (Shared Services) and Commercial Finance teams in their drafting of cloud and services agreements (focusing on the legal aspects), work with sales, pricing and revenue recognition teams, and other areas, 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 IT industry, on premise and cloud (software-as-a-service) sector is strongly preferred.

**EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS**
- Effectively structure, draft, redline, and negotiate with customers complex terms and agreements including cloud agreements, software licensing, professional services agreements, data processing agreements, etc. in support of SAP’s Cloud, Software, and Services business.
- Work closely with internal Sales, Pricing, Revenue Recognition, Shared Services teams during the drafting and negotiation process.
- 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 whilst ensuring compliance with all relevant policies and procedures of SAP.
- 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, labor, data privacy, IP, public sector, and claims management.
- Assist with special projects as assigned.
- Provide legal services with minor supervision.

**EDUCATION AND SKILLS**
- Graduation from accredited law school.
- Meets applicable requirements to practice law in Mexico with existing in-house experience specialized in commercial contracts.
- Ability to prioritize and manage workload independently.
- Hands-on, customer centric, confident, autonomous, self-motivated and must enjoy working within a changing and dynamic organization, able to work under pressure and strong enough to stand own ground.
- Strong interpersonal, leadership and communications skills.
- Excellent/Fluent English language skills - written and oral.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Ability to provide timely responses to client base, providing sound legal advice with appropriate business perspective.
- Knowledge in data privacy, labor and public sector.
- Excellent negotiating skills, experience with and expertise in negotiating key terms for Cloud Agreements.

**WORK EXPERIENCE**
- 3- 8 years of appropriate legal experience
- Experience in providing legal counsel to sales teams
- Experience in providing legal counsel in corporate environments (different areas such as HR, Tax, Payroll, Facilities, etc.)
- Experience in IT industry, Cloud (software-as-a-service) sector would be beneficial
- Data protection experience would be beneficial

**We build breakthroughs together**

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SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating


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