Senior Energy Contracts Lead

Main Purpose:

Leverage legal expertise in bridging the gap between front and CA team, ensuring robust risk management while meeting commercial objectives.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong business acumen and knowledge of commodities trading, operations, trade finance instruments, laytime & demurrage, Incoterms
• Excellent drafting, contract analysis and negotiation capabilities
• Superior communication skills across different organisation levels
• Excellent business relationships – capacity to understand different expectations of traders and counterparties
• Ability to balance commercial priorities with contractual risk management
• Able to prioritise – queries, follow-ups, urgency
• Decision-making ability under pressure Background
• University degree in law. Licensed to practice law.
• More than 10 years’ experience
• Fluent in spoken and written English. French and Hindi proficiency would be an asset
• Must be willing to travel and to work in office

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborative partner to traders, making the bridge with the CA team
• Translate trading requirements into actionable contract administration priorities
• Contribute to the CA team education on legal knowledge, trading environment and business objectives aiming at improving CA team response time
• Liaise with internal teams to seek ways to improve contract production
• Support business growth
• Identify which contractual terms are negotiable versus which require strict adherence
• Contribute and support the CA team’s projects

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Key Relationships

• Global Head of Contracts
• CA team members
• Traders
• Operators
• Other internal teams (trade finance, claims, insurance, etc)

Department

The Contracts Administration (“CA”) team is responsible for producing, reviewing and negotiating a range of contractual documentation for a range of commodities including crude oil and petroleum products, power and gas. The CA team is based in four different international locations (Mumbai, Montevideo, Athens, Calgary) and has global responsibility necessitating the daily interaction with numerous internal teams (such as Operations, Trading, Finance and Legal) across the business as well as external counterparties. The CA team is a key risk management function for the business and is providing an essential service for the organization.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.