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Feltham - UK

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Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

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1 Vacancy

Job Description

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 purposedriven and futurefocused 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 choosefrom.

What youll do:

SAP is looking for a commercial lawyer to support all legal matters affecting the SAP business in the United Kingdom. The lawyer will work as a member of the SAP UK team (six colleagues) and will be based in the SAP offices in Clockhouse Place Bedfont Road Feltham Middlesex TW14 8HD.

The required legal advice will range across cloud software licensing and consulting contracts and general legal topics. This role would particulary suit a commercial lawyer from within the Technology Services industry.

The successful candidate will:

  • Report to the Head of the UK Legal team and Deputy Regional General Counsel in EMEA.
  • Be part of the UK legal team and as part of the SAP Global Legal. You will work closely with the UK business and UK legal team.
  • Be primarily responsible for legal work to one of the UK sales divisions.
  • Act as the primary negotiator for complex commercial contracts with SAP customers and partners and provide trusted legal advice to SAPs management.
  • Ensure that company business strategies are applied in recognition of legal implications and risks.
  • Ensure that all contracts are in compliance with SAPs legal contractual and business processes and policies.
  • Report legal disputes legal aspects of customer escalations and interact with outside counsel as necessary.
  • Contribute to the overall success of SAPs business and be recognised as a business partner with an understanding of SAPs business objectives and cloud strategy.
  • Build strong stakeholder relationships and partner with account executives and sales managers and the wider SAP team such as Finance Commercial and Revenue Recognition.
  • Work closely with the SAPs Office of Ethics & Compliance and ensure an appropriate level of internal governance is in place in relation to transactions and other business activities.
  • Understand and work according to the commercial pressures of a sales business in a highpressure environment.

What you bring:

  • A qualified English lawyer with excellent working knowledge of Contract and IT Laws with 25 years post admission experience.
  • Excellent communication negotiation and drafting skills.
  • IT and IP legal experience.
  • Working knowledge of Data Privacy and Data Protection Laws such as GDPR.
  • Experience in negotiating commercial contracts with customers/partners.
  • Works well with the other UK lawyers who are expected to support and operate as a team.
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment and cope well with pressure (including quarter end pressures).
  • Works independently and creatively (whilst keeping critical stakeholders informed) collaborates well with different parts of the global organisation and responds effectively to SAPs sales and management 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 endtoend 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 purposedriven and futurefocused 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 SAPyou can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAPs culture of inclusion focus on health and wellbeing 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.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application please send an email with your request to Recruiting Operations Team:
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

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: 405594 Work Area: Legal Expected Travel: 0 10 Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LIHybrid.

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