English speaking vacancies in Holland: VACANCY: Senior Corporate Counsel

Tuesday 15 May 2012

VACANCY: Senior Corporate Counsel

Cisco Systems - Amsterdam (or Stockholm or Brussels) (Amsterdam Area, Netherlands)

Job Description

Cisco Capital is part of the Cisco Systems, Inc. group of companies and provides vendor financing for Cisco products and services both directly and through local finance partners to Cisco customers.
This is a relatively mature theatre, providing the largest portion of Cisco Capital’s global business outside of the US and Canada. EMEA will continue to receive increased focus from senior management as it builds on its existing products and customers, and plays a lead role in finding innovative ways to develop and enable Cisco’s global business models and market strategies.
Diversity at Cisco
We continually strive to be a better company, and a better corporate citizen. We aim to fully embrace the human network in all its multiplicity, and to foster innovation and talent in the workplace. This way, we can better serve our customers and engage with our partners in the worldwide marketplace.
We demonstrate our commitment to a culture of inclusion and diversity by:
• Integrating inclusion and diversity into business processes and operations
• Creating systemic accountability for realizing the inclusion and diversity objectives at every level of the organization
• Increasing recognition of employees who create a culture of inclusion
• Using our pervasive culture of inclusion to attract and retain top talent
• Challenging Cisco's executive team to consistently and broadly spread the inclusion and diversity vision
• Strengthening the Cisco brand through our reputation as an inclusion and diversity leader

The Role

A qualified lawyer from a major European jurisdiction (or someone with equivalent experience) is sought to support our activities in the UK. Ireland and the North Region (Benelux, Nordics and Baltics). The role will be based in our offices in Amsterdam (although location at other major European hubs such as Stockholm, Brussels and Bedfont Lakes will be considered).
Key Deliverables:
• Contributes to the overall success of the business unit.
• Understands the business objectives and tailors legal advice to this.
• Is an integral member of the business unit’s leadership team, earning the tag “trusted business advisor”.
• Acts as primary negotiator for contractual negotiations with Cisco Capital’s customers and business partners, ensuring that contracts are closed in line with forecasts. Has good, pragmatic judgment, knowing when to push and when to hold back in order to keep the business revenue moving while mitigating risk to Cisco Capital and Cisco ..
• Gives reliable, timely legal advice to sales and other functions.
• Participates in other projects as a legal subject matter expert.
• Listens, empathizes and handles needs, objections, issues and concerns over contracts raised by Capital customers and their legal teams.
• Understands and works according to the commercial pressures of a sales business.
• Is prepared when needed to give advice that is urgent at speed. Is able to work and advise in ambiguous and fast-paced situations.
• Helps embed Cisco legal policy within the business unit in order to minimize concerns. Educates and coaches the business unit in order to transfer key legal knowledge and approach to the sales force.
• Acts as a problem solver rather than an issue spotter, focusing on how to get things done rather than how not to. Brings the attitude of an enabler rather than a block to business.
• Overall the formal and informal feedback from the business and customers is positive.

Desired Skills & Experience

Applicants should have at least 8 years’ broad finance experience (preferably including leasing) obtained at a top practice, bank or multinational corporate. Previous experience of in-house work is desirable but not essential.

This role is wide ranging with a lot of responsibility. We require motivated, self reliant individuals with a proven ability to work as part of a small team. Candidates should be individuals with a highly commercial approach who will thrive in a sales-orientated environment. Excellent written and verbal skills in English are essential (and fluency in another European language is highly desirable).

Company Description

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible-providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 65,225 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as:

Additional Information

Posted:: May 14, 2012
Type:: Full-time
Experience:: Mid-Senior level
Functions:: Legal
Industries:: Information Technology and Services
Job ID:: 3023297; More info here: https://www.cisco.apply2jobs.com/ProfExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mExternal.showJob&RID=921711&CurrentPage=1

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