Senior Global License Specialist

THE OPPORTUNITY
This role is part of Global Licensing’s Licensing Management team, consisting of leading contract negotiations with external partners, and assessing third party use-terms against SAP’s standards. Other activities include supporting internal stakeholders in various Exec Board areas: Global Finance & Accounting, Customer Success, Product Engineering and Technology & Innovation. Our efforts also include initiatives and projects to improve, simplify and standardize the existing processes in the Commercial Inbound Licensing team.

The Position currently reports to the Licensing Management Co-Lead, based in Prague.

WHAT YOU´LL DO
Specific tasks may include the following:
•    Negotiation of third-party agreements, which includes providing templates to potential partners, providing clarifications, aligning internal teams and responses
•    Review of third-party agreements and/or online terms to assess them against the SAP standard terms & conditions

•    Preparing & presenting approval requests, risk assessments and mitigation plans, in close cooperation with other stakeholders

•    License review and risk evaluation of various forms of third-party IP and other materials, including (Free) Third-party web APIs/services

•    Performing reviews of existing agreements, in support of Licensing Validation requests for Test & Evaluation, and Test, Development & Demo product releases

•    Providing guidance regarding the Inbound Licensing related processes and policies, to internal and external stakeholders

•    High level (i.e. not on software developer level) review of the technical integration of third-party IP

•    Interpreting license materials, as well as technical use cases, to help SAP make informed decisions
•    Continuously enhancing, simplifying and improving the third-party license review process, in collaboration with the SAP legal team•    Coordination and execution of special and complex ad-hoc tasks
•    Managing contract life-cycle, including drafting and executing amendments, handling terminations, renewals, Supporting partners with general contract administration topics, etc. 
•    The role will entail taking ownership of a portfolio of existing and new partner agreements
•    Supporting defined projects across Global Licensing & Royalty Management, taking over work packages and workstreams

WHAT YOU BRING
Desired skills and characteristics
•    At least 2 years of active and direct ownership of contract negotiations and drafting experience
•    Proficiency in reading, interpreting and drafting complex commercial agreements
•    Familiarity with licensing, risk assessment and compliance, preferably in software or any digital industry
•    Strong business acumen
•    Project management experience
•    Experience within Finance roles would be a big plus
•    High service attitude, while making no compromises on compliance
•    Ability to think proactively and create pragmatic solutions
•    Good analytical skills
•    High level of ownership, responsibility, motivation, and drive
•    Be a flexible team player able to deal with transition and change
•    Being able to work independently
•    Open for new topics, learning and assignments
•    Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills
•    Strong networking skills
•    Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel

WORK EXPERIENCE
•    5+ years experience

With your application, please include your cover letter.