About the Legal Counsel Position - Procurement Legal Team:

 

As an individual contributor within Oracle's Procurement Legal Team, you will provide legal support for the Corporate Procurement organization with an emphasis on supporting a wide variety of contracts.  

Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

 

• Negotiation of a wide variety of indirect procurement matters (goods or services for Oracle’s internal use), including telco, SaaS, facility services, meetings and events, etc.
• Providing advice and counsel on issues relating to procurement and service delivery contracts, supplier disputes, legal issues and company policies and procedures.
• Develop and provide legal training to internal clients on an as-needed basis.
• Fiduciary support for compliance with corporate and legal policies and processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

 

• • 4-8 years of relevant experience with real estate and facility and construction contracts.
  • Strong fiduciary focus.
  • Effective interpersonal and cross-organizational communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to be versatile, pragmatic and creative in identifying and assessing risks, and developing sustainable, practical solutions that balance business and legal considerations.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new issues and subject areas quickly, manage competing priorities and maintain good judgment, and focus when working in a fast paced environment.
  • Some familiarity with multi-country and cross-border tax and contracting issues.

Provide legal support across all lines of business enabling profitable growth while mitigating legal risks and assure adherence to governance policies, ethics, and country specific laws and regulations

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 sub discipline 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)

Job duties are varied and complex utilizing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 5+ years related experience. Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, or similar background is a plus for roles within certain sub disciplines. Completed law degree and member of bar association in relevant jurisdictions. Excellent legal skills and business judgment in areas of responsibility. Proficient writing skills.