Join Our Team as Senior Legal Counsel
Are you a highly experienced legal professional specializing in global freight, seeking a pivotal role where your expertise directly shapes business strategy and operational success within a leading global trade company? We are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join our dynamic legal team, providing crucial guidance across our international freight value chain.
This is a pivotal opportunity for a seasoned lawyer ready to make a significant impact. We are considering candidates who are eligible to work and are looking for a role in either Rotterdam or Geneva. You will be an integral part of our global freight legal function, offering key support to our European regional teams and fostering a truly collaborative environment.
The Role
This role demands a dynamic blend of strategic legal leadership and hands-on operational excellence:
- Strategic & Commercial Counsel: Provide comprehensive legal counsel for all global freight activities, proactively identifying risks, ensuring compliance, and advising on strategic opportunities.
- Lead Dispute Resolution: Manage and oversee complex commercial disputes, litigation, and arbitrations within the freight sector, coordinating both in-house and external legal efforts.
- Contractual Expertise: Draft, review, and negotiate a wide array of critical freight-specific commercial documents, including charterparties, bills of lading, guarantees, and agency agreements.
- Business Partnership: Embed deeply with the freight value chain and European regional teams, acting as a trusted legal partner to understand business needs and integrate legal advice seamlessly into operations and strategy.
- Legal Operations & Development: Optimize legal processes, manage external counsel relationships and budgets, provide internal legal training, and leverage legal technology tools for efficiency.
Who We're Looking For:
A pragmatic, commercially astute, and collaborative legal colleague with:
- Experience: 5-10 Years Post-Qualification Experience (PQE) as a solicitor (UK qualified preferred). Comparable English and common law experience is essential if your qualification/admission is not from the UK.
- Specialized Background: A minimum of 2 years of dedicated experience in an international law firm and/or as in-house counsel, focused on commodity trading, particularly in Freight / Shipping.
- Core Competencies: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, exceptional written and verbal communication in English, with a proven ability to build relationships and manage complex tasks efficiently even under pressure.
- Behavior & Mindset: Improve outcomes by making data-driven decisions, proactively gaining insights into the global strategy while keeping the internal customer at the forefront. Collaborate effectively with others, take initiative for personal development, pursue problem-solving opportunities, and maintain work management, even during challenging times.
Why Join Our Team?
This role offers a genuine opportunity to leverage your specialized legal knowledge in a leading global enterprise. You will tackle real-world, complex legal challenges, contributing directly to our operational success and strategic objectives within a dynamic, international commercial environment.
Interested in making an impact? Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered.