Senior Legal Counsel

 We help the world run better

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. How? 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.

SAP is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to work within its Field Legal Team in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region.  Based in Prague, you will be a part of the EMEA Field Legal Team and will provide legal expertise for SAP and its business teams across the region.  Primary responsibilities include drafting and negotiating multiple cloud, service, license, and related technology agreements with customers and suppliers 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, you may support other business areas such as marketing and bankruptcy.  You will act as a prime contact for the relevant sales and/or related business teams and provide legal advice and counseling focusing primarily on agreements for services, as well as on a wide variety of matters, including intellectual property, licensing and data privacy.  

You will need to demonstrate the ability to draft and negotiate complex agreements, working with SAP’s Centralized Deal Support (“CDS”) 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.

What you´ll do

• Effectively structure, draft, redline, and negotiate with customers and suppliers complex terms and agreements including cloud agreements, software licensing, professional services agreements, data processing agreements, etc. in support of SAP’s business.

• Work closely with internal Sales, Pricing, Revenue Recognition, CDS and procurement 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, bankruptcy, privacy, IP and claims management.

• Assist with special projects as assigned.

What you bring

• English or similarly qualified lawyer with existing in-house experience specialised in commercial contracts. 

• Excellent drafting and negotiating skills, experience and expertise in negotiating key terms for services agreements, such as data protection, data analysis, security, compliance/regulatory, limitation of liability terms, etc.

• Ability to prioritise and manage workload independently.

• Hands-on, confident, autonomous, self-motivated and must enjoy working within a changing and dynamic organisation, able to work under pressure and strong enough to stand own ground.

• Strong interpersonal, leadership and communications skills.

• Excellent English language skills – written and oral.

• Excellent time management and organisational skills.

• Ability to provide timely responses to internal client base, providing sound legal advice with appropriate business perspective.

• Able to influence colleagues at all levels of the organization.

 Work experience

• 5-7 years of appropriate legal experience.
• Experience of providing legal services to different business teams, in particular, sales teams.

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

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 a better and more equitable world.
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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 407589  | Work Area: Legal  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.