Legal Counsel

Time left to apply: End Date: November 22, 2024 (17 days left to apply)

Job Requisition ID: R-43591

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LEGAL COUNSEL

Department: Legal & Compliance

Functional Manager: Lead Counsel for SE&A

Location: Zamudio

How to contribute to our vision:

We are looking for a passionate Legal Counsel (a Spanish qualified lawyer) to join the growing SE&A Legal Team. As part of this position, you will evolve in an innovative and dynamic environment. You will report directly to the Lead Counsel for the Region (South Europe and Africa - “SE&A”) and belong to the SE&A Legal Team.

The objective of this position within the organization is to protect and optimize all the legal interests relating to the business activities conducted by Siemens Gamesa (“SGRE”, the Wind business unit within the Siemens Energy group) across SE&A Region, by providing legal advice to the operational teams and by managing and reducing legal risks.

Forming part of the SE&A Legal Team, the main functions of the position will be:

• Providing legal advice to business partners on all key legal issues to prevent or reduce legal risks and provide them with pro-active support.
• Preparing and participating in the review, negotiation with end customers, and drafting of commercial contracts, in particular wind turbine generator supply and related services agreements, EPC agreements, operation and maintenance agreements (both new contracts and renewals thereof), agreements for the purchase of components, indirect materials, and provision of services.
• Providing advice on contractual and legal issues arising during the execution of wind projects and also during the maintenance phase of the wind projects.
• Providing support during negotiations with providers and assess the potential opportunities, impacts, and risks of the outcome of such negotiations.
• Provide general legal advice to business partners and translating the legal topics into an understandable language.
• Assisting in the improvement of existing contractual templates and in the creation of new ones.
• Ensuring compliance with the group’s evolving policies and guidelines.
• Intervening in the resolution of claims, controversies, and eventual disputes and in the subsequent phases with clients and suppliers providing an additional value to the final outcome of the discussions, with the support and guidance of in-house Litigation experts.
• Participating and actively collaborating with legal teams and experts from other regions in cross-border transactions and contracts (including, without limitation, industrial and intellectual property related matters, technology license agreements, or build-to-print schemes).
• Providing support on M&A activities within the organization.

What you need to make a difference:

• You have a degree in Law (Spanish qualified lawyer) with a specialization in international business law.
• You have 5 to 7 years of experience in a law firm or in a corporate or business legal department of an international company in the energy, industrial, or infrastructure sector.
• You are completely fluent in English (oral and written) (French, Italian, or German language will be a plus).
• You have an excellent knowledge of commercial contractual matters with an ability to manage commercial law in different countries (previous experience in M&A transactions will be a plus).
• You are recognized for your very strong proactivity and responsiveness to business issues and always on a highly dedicated approach.
• You have all the following abilities:
  • to adapt to a changing economic and regulatory environment;
  • to assume responsibility over your individual work, to assert oneself and to convince different stakeholders;
  • to collaborate with other colleagues (including other members of the SE&A Legal Team) where required depending on the matter at hand;
  • to create synergies between multicultural environments; and
  • to find a harmonious balance between potentially contradictory priorities (local versus international, customers versus society).

In return for your commitment, we offer you…

• Become a part of our mission for sustainability: Clean energy for generations to come.
• A global team of diverse colleagues who share passion for renewable energy.
• Trust and empowerment to make your own ideas a reality.
• Personal and professional development to grow internally within our organization.
• Competitive Pension Scheme.

We believe diversity creates more opportunity for success. That’s why we recruit great minds from all walks of life: it doesn’t matter the gender, age, ethnic background, sexual orientation, or disability. Our main aim is to find people from around the globe who can contribute to world-changing technology.

Siemens Gamesa is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a work environment that is free from discrimination and where employees are treated with dignity and respect.

With a worldwide installed capacity of 139 GW, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has a presence in more than 100 countries and a team of 30,000 people worldwide. Its end-to-end value chain presence encompasses onshore and offshore wind turbines design, manufacturing, installation as well as cutting-edge service solutions.