Job Description

Based at Oracle’s headquarters for the Netherlands in Utrecht, you will join an established legal team supporting the sales teams in the Benelux countries on major deals for customers across all lines of business. As legal counsel you will draft, review, and negotiate technology contracts with public and private sector customers, including cloud services agreements, licensing agreements, and professional services agreements. Your focus will be such support for the Dutch sales teams, but occasionally you may be asked to jump in for matters pertaining to sales in Belgium and Luxembourg.

General Responsibilities

• Responsible for legal support to sales teams across various industry sectors
• Independent handling of contracts’ negotiation and drafting
• Continuous interface with commercial approvers and related risk management
• Close liaison with Business Practices and Contract Specialist organisations

Legal Functions

• Draft and negotiate major or complex non-standard agreements
• Advise the Business on structure of contractual relationship, including appropriate documents to use
• Respond to ad hoc queries, providing appropriate legal solutions
• Identify, analyse, and evaluate risks
• Work closely with other lawyers throughout Oracle• Ensure compliance with Oracle business practices, policies, and procedures

Requirements

• Must be qualified as a Dutch lawyer with at least 7 years relevant experience from a leading law firm or with appropriate in-house experience
• Must have significant experience in drafting complex IT agreements and advising clients on commercial technology deals
• Must be self-starting and have proven ability to manage a fast-paced workload and to work as part of a team
• Good knowledge of data privacy matters (GDPR, e.g. evidenced by being CIPP/E certified), recent legal developments such as EU Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), as well as EU legislation such as the EU Data Act is a plus.
• Proven experience in Dutch contract law
• Native Dutch speaker
• Fluent in English
• Pragmatic and proactive with a hands on mentality
• Team player with a sense of humour

Responsible for providing legal advice to the organization. Close liaison to business in providing a variety of corporate and commercial legal services. May perform litigation on Oracle's behalf or coordinates litigation and other legal, administrative or investigative actions handled by outside counsel. May draft, review, and negotiate major and/or non-standard technology contracts with public and private sector customers, including licensing agreements, professional services agreements, and cloud services agreements. May advise on legal issues involving government and regulatory compliance. Responds to ad hoc queries to include identification, analysis, and evaluation of risks in order to provide appropriate legal solutions. Works closely with other lawyers throughout Oracle and coordinates legal matters handled by outside lawyers. Demonstrates deep general commercial or functional knowledge across a wide range of sub disciplines within the individual's specialty area(s), (e.g., general corporate law, antitrust/competition law, securities compliance and regulatory, employment law, immigration law, cloud transactions, data privacy, risk management asset-backed financing, contract management, intellectual property, trade secrets, advertising law, registration and other resolutions specific to the computer and technology industry)

Career Level - IC4

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