Are you a law graduate/ legal professional looking for job opportunities as a Senior Legal Counsel? This opportunity might be of interest to you!
About:
SoftwareOne is a leading global software and cloud solutions provider that is redefining how companies build, buy and manage everything in the cloud. By helping clients to migrate and modernize their workloads and applications – and in parallel, to navigate and optimize the resulting software and cloud changes – SoftwareOne unlocks the value of technology. The company’s 8,900 employees are driven to deliver a portfolio of 7,500 software brands with sales and delivery capabilities in 90 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, SoftwareOne is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol SWON.
Role:
Senior Legal Counsel
Location:
EMEA (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden)
Qualifications:
- Degree in law
- 5+ years of post-qualification experience, ideally as an in-house counsel of a multinational firm, preferably in the IT industry.
- Fluent in English (any other language skills would be an asset).
- Experience in drafting, preparing and negotiating commercial contracts.
- Experience in reviewing technical scope descriptions and pricing is essential.
- Excellent communication, drafting and presentation skills.
- Inquisitive, pragmatic and solutions-oriented mindset.
- Open, communicative and resistant and down to earth personality. Not afraid to ask questions and check understanding when in doubt.
- Ability to interact and collaborate smoothly with people from diverse backgrounds, working in a team.
- Good judgment and problem-solving skills, cross-functional thinking and the ability to work on own initiative, prioritize workloads and manage multiple deadlines.
- Eager to go the extra mile.
Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the Group Software and Cloud Solutions Counsel, be the strategic Business Partner for SoftwareOne’s software and cloud solutions teams.
- Work with software and cloud solutions teams engaging in strategic planning, contract development, and business strategy.
- Working with Product Managers to review technical scope descriptions and pricing documents.
- Develop and maintain forms and templates, standards and automation, including for software and cloud solutions delivery.
- Draft, review and negotiate agreements with service partners, suppliers and other agreements in the IT technology sector.
- Providing general legal advice to key stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Regional General Counsels and associate lawyers in negotiation of services contracts and assessing acceptable risk parameters for customer agreements.
- Advise key stakeholders in risks associated with contract provisions and provide solutions for effective and efficient business transactions, incl. DPAs and other data protection aspects in cooperation with the Group Data Protection Counsel.
- Keep members of the Group Legal and Compliance team informed on the software and cloud solutions business, the key developments in the those business segments and planning and engagements that could have s substantial legal impact.
- Training of the Business and Group Legal and Compliance on legal and compliance aspects of the software and cloud solutions business segments.
- Support Regional General Counsels in legal and compliance matters relating to service delivery.
- Perform other tasks as identified by key stakeholders in consultation with the Group Software and Cloud Solutions Counsel.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can Apply here (click here)
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