Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel

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Senior Legal Counsel

**About the job**:
**We help the world run better**

SAP is seeking a Legal Counsel/ Senior Legal Counsel to work within its Field Legal Organization. Based in Santiago, Chile, you will provide legal expertise for SAP and its business teams, particularly SAP’s sales teams). Primary responsibilities include drafting and negotiating multiple complex technology cloud service, license, professional services 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 lines of business/practice areas such as marketing, bankruptcy, procurement, etc. 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 intellectual property, licensing, data privacy, and license compliance matters.

You will need to demonstrate the ability to draft and negotiate complex agreements, working with SAP’s Shared Delivery Hubs 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.

**The Key Accountabilities Of The Role Are To**
- 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 and Software and Services business.
- Provide Legal support to all SAP Chile LOBs ensuring compliance with local laws.
- Work closely with internal Sales, Pricing, Revenue Recognition, Centralized Deal Support deal support teams during the drafting and negotiation process.
- Serve as an escalation point for the Shared Delivery Hubs, 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, bankruptcy, privacy, IP and claims management.
- Assist with special projects as assigned.

**Education And Skills**
- Graduation from accredited Chilean law school.






- Preference is experience and expertise in negotiating key terms for Cloud Agreements, such as data protection, data analysis, security, compliance/regulatory, limitation of liability terms, etc.
- Experience handling data privacy matters, including, but not limited to customer facing negotiations data privacy agreements would be beneficial. CIPP certification a plus.
- Strong interpersonal, leadership and communications skills.
- Excellent/Fluent English language skills -written and oral..
- 3-7 years of appropriate legal experience providing legal counsel to sales teams.
- Experience in Local Labor Laws, public tender processes, compliance topics.

**Location**
Santiago, Chile.

**We build breakthroughs together**

**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.

**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.

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**We win with inclusion**

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