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    Leader, Senior Corporate Counsel - Toronto, Canada - Cisco

    Cisco
    Cisco Toronto, Canada

    1 week ago

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    Description

    What You'll Do

  • Manage the Canada Legal Team with 2 direct reports and serve as the primary legal advisor to the country manager and local executive leadership team
  • Provide transactional legal support to the Canadian sales teams, including drafting and negotiating contracts for direct and channel sales such as software license, product and service purchase agreements, cloud agreement, XaaS agreements, channel and alliance agreements.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior sales management and other supporting functions by deeply understanding Cisco's strategy and priorities.
  • Analyze and help to resolve business and legal issues through clear, practical legal guidance.
  • Participate in key global initiatives with cross-functional legal teams.
  • Ensure Compliance and Data Privacy policies and legal requirements.

    • Who You'll Work With

    You would be part of a dynamic in-house legal department that is using technology to transform both its own legal department and how the law is practised around the world. Our legal department works in a fast-paced environment, with a passion to drive Cisco's business and enable our customers' digital transformation.

    Who You Are

  • Adaptability. You are comfortable working in a dynamic environment and demonstrate the ability to optimally handle frequent changes in priorities, deadlines, and workload.
  • Business & Legal Knowledge. You have in depth knowledge of commercial and contract law, and knowledge of intellectual property, anti-corruption, privacy and data protection law. You understand contracting principles and their impact on the business and are able to find creative solutions to complex issues.
  • Communication and Influence. You have strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate concisely (in writing and verbally) complex legal and business issues with senior staff both inside and outside the company. You anticipate and respond to customer/client requirements promptly.
  • Continuous Learning. You have a natural curiosity and hunger to learn and to apply that learning to specific tasks to improve your work and the work of others around you.
  • Ability to Positively Disrupt. You won't suffer in silence in the face of outdated methodologies, broken processes or inefficient ways of doing things. Instead, you are a change agent who can clearly articulate these issues and their repercussions in a constructive manner and take full ownership of identifying and implementing better, more innovative ways of doing things. You have a creative mentality with the ability to use design thinking and other tools to innovate.
  • Critical Thinking. You have a track record of conducting a careful and thoughtful analysis of complex legal and business agreements and the ability to weigh and articulate the risk and reward of various scenarios in a business-friendly manner.
  • Teammate. You are willing to collaborate and share knowledge, acting in a responsive and proactive manner. You operate well in a team environment and positively impact team members.

    • Minimum Requirements for this role:

  • Excellent academic credentials and Bar admission preferred in Canada, with a minimum 8+ years of experience working and supporting transactional legal matters in a multinational organization, including understanding of and experience negotiating complex software and services transactions, drafting language for a broad range of issues and contracts with complex technology issues such as intellectual property, software licensing, cloud, compliance, data protection, antitrust, and export-import regulations.
  • Strong leadership skills, wanting to supply to a team culture focused on shared success.
  • Expert knowledge of commercial, contract and business law. Knowledge of intellectual property and data protection law. Understanding of and experience applying revenue recognition and other financial principles common to an US-based publicly traded company is a plus.
  • Negotiate to a specific goal with little supervision.
  • Sophisticated knowledge in public sector procurement process and regulations.
  • Excellent business judgment, advocating for acceptable legal risk to enable business outcomes.
  • Customer and client-centric approach, demonstrating respect and a positive attitude under all circumstances.
  • Experience and familiarity with data privacy such as GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy laws, as well as as-a-service offerings. CIPP/E certification is a plus.
  • Operate efficiently and effectively in an environment heavily dependent on Cisco and third-party tools and communications systems, including high proficiency in and effective use of basic desktop applications (e.g. Office 365).
  • International experience by working oversees or with multinational companies (preferred)
  • Proficiency in English (French is a plus)
  • Excellent judgment in knowing when and how to advance issues to the appropriate level and propose solutions.
  • Excellent academic credentials and admitted to practice Law in the applicable jurisdiction.
  • Preferred location: Toronto
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