Senior Legal Counsel

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SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups specialising in public transport and sustainable mobility. With over 10,300 employees, SYSTRA's mission is to design safe and sustainable transport solutions to bring people together, develop social inclusion and facilitate access to employment, education and leisure throughout the world.

For 65 years, the Group has been working alongside cities and regions to contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their infrastructure and transport systems, throughout the life cycle of their projects. SYSTRA is involved from the earliest stages of design through to the testing, deployment and maintenance phases. The company provides all its services in over 80 countries worldwide and generates 74% of its turnover internationally. With its new services, SYSTRA supports its clients and partners in their digital, ecological and energy transition, in order to invent the mobility of tomorrow.

Context:
She/he shall ensure that both legal support and policy are consistently and effectively deployed across the business, that contractual risks are under control and that SYSTRA’s operating needs are met.

The Senior Legal Counsel will assist in providing legal counselling related to a wide range of legal and regulatory matters for SYSTRA Ibérica.

The Senior Legal Counsel will report to the managing director of Systra Ibérica, as its direct hierarchical report.

On a functional basis he/she will report to the Head of Legal based in Paris (HQ).

The Senior Legal Counsel is based in Madrid, Spain.

He/She will ensure that:

- both legal support and Systra Group policies are consistently and effectively deployed
- contractual risks are under control while SYSTRA’s operating needs are met.

Missions/Main Duties:

- She/he will provide legal advice and analysis on the full range of issues (mainly contractual) for the procurement of projects where Systra Ibérica performs its activities.
- She/he will draft and advise on a wide range of contracts and agreements with respect to SYSTRA Ibérica’s worldwide projects.
- She/he will support contract negotiations through.
- She/he will act as a key focal point for internal and external parties to the contractual negotiations and, as the case may be, contract performance.
- She/he will deal with internal clients and operational teams, clients, consortium partners, subcontractors, as the case may be, and their legal advisors, senior management on a day-to-day basis.
- She/he will understand and extensively know the active projects and the tenders in preparation.
- Provide an advisory service to internal stakeholders and challenge legal matters though risks identification and mitigation advice.
- Engage with management to meet goals and ensure adherence to important corporate and regulatory policies though training.
- Liaise with local insurance brokers for projects and tenders.
- Liaise and coordinate with external counsels.
- Draft legal notices and lead the support towards management of dispute cases.
- Engage with management to meet goals and ensure adherence to important corporate and regulatory policies through legal trainings.
- Participate actively to the Systra Group legal network.

Profile/Skills:

- Law degree
- Fluent in Spanish and English
- French and Portuguese are not mandatory but would be appreciated
- Solid knowledge of Spanish public procurement rules, engineering contracts and D&B/construction contracts is mandatory
- Proven experience of negotiating and drafting contracts and transaction documents
- Previous experience in an international environment
- Extensive experience of minimum 5 years
- Ideally a prior in-house experience preceded by law firm experience is preferred.
- Previous experience in either construction, transport or engineering sectors is a must