Sr. Counsel, Legal, SSG

• Overseeing legal support and assisting in SSG Deals
• Develop understanding of existing contractual commitments for SSG Customers
• Working with the SSG Services Team
• Advising the SSG Team on a wide range of regulatory and commercial legal issues
• Provide legal support for the Lenovo Teams developing new services, software and solutions
• Collaborate with internal and outside counsel, specific subject matter experts, and stakeholders
• Work closely with Lenovo's lawyers, as well as services teams in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
• Work closely with the Sales Team and Commercial Contract Management Team to negotiate and close large complex SSG Deals
• Work closely with the Global Contracts Team and other Contract Management Teams to ensure that if the COE is supporting SSG Managed Services and they have the necessary training, playbooks and templates
• Advise SSG Team on a wide range of regulatory and commercial legal issues
• Effectively engage in issue-spotting and involving legal subject matter experts within the broader corporate-level Lenovo Legal Department
• Work efficiently to supplement internal resources across Lenovo's geographies with advice from outside as needed
• Draft standard templates for new solutions and services
• Work with the COE to establish a template library for all Services so they can be easily found and maintained

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in negotiating complex multi-country services contracts in an IT or Telecommunications environment.
• Commercial management experience with solid understanding of the key drivers of profitability
• Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills with a solid knowledge of legal concepts

• Experience in IT Hardware / Equipment leasing would be considered an advantage
• Ability to work in a fast paced, ambiguous, and ever-changing environment
• Experience of subscription based "as a service" commercial models
• Comfortable negotiating directly with clients and/or third parties
• Strong team player who builds strong working relationships with clients and internal stakeholders
• Solid project management experience
• Commercial awareness with ability to understand the sales team's perspective and balance contractual and legal risk
• High degree of professional ethics, integrity, and gravitas
• First class interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent judgement and analytical skills
• Ability to anticipate, mitigate, minimize, and proactively manage risk
• Ability and willingness to travel to client site