Senior Legal Counsel

Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact.

Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.

About Us:

SBM Offshore is the world’s deepwater ocean-infrastructure expert. Our work is already resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production. True. Blue. Transition. is our promise to enable that into the future while at the same time using our expertise to support new and existing markets in the blue economy. It starts with Advancing our Core: continuing to advance the decarbonization of traditional energy production. While Pioneering More: helping to enable the energy transition and using our unique capabilities in ocean infrastructure to support more industries to grow sustainably. Sharing our experience for a better blue tomorrow.

Purpose

• The Senior Legal Counsel at SBM Offshore is a key advisor to the company’s business and project teams, across a portfolio of complex, high-value projects in the offshore energy sector.
• You are instrumental and proactive in driving legal solutions that enable SBM Offshore’s strategic goals, its stakeholders and management and mitigate compliance and legal risks.

Responsibilities

• You provide high-level, strategic legal advice to SBM on a variety of complex legal topics in support of SBM Offshore's projects in the offshore energy sector.
• You independently lead the drafting, review, and negotiation of high-value commercial contracts and agreements, utilizing both SBM’s templates and industry standard templates.
• You provide strategic legal support and advice, mitigating complex legal risks for the relevant business lines, influencing key decisions, and ensuring alignment with strategic objectives while protecting SBM's interests.
• You manage and prioritize complex legal tasks to meet critical deadlines and stakeholder requirements, ensuring that all tasks are completed efficiently.
• You contribute to the implementation of legal strategies, proposing solutions that address evolving regulatory challenges and ensuring that SBM is positioned to respond effectively.
• You are responsible for the development and maintenance of legal templates and operating procedures, ensuring they reflect industry best practices and align with SBM’s strategic goals.
• You communicate with and manage external counsel and experts, ensuring they deliver high-quality services in line with SBM’s legal services procurement processes, and you provide feedback on legal panel performance.
• You update the LC &C Leadership Team and key business stakeholders on critical legal issues and risks, sharing key lessons learned and areas for continuous improvement in risk management.
• You stay up to date with significant changes to legislation and case law relevant to SBM’s business.
• You contribute to and lead training programs for relevant business lines and within the LC &C team, promoting legal knowledge and compliance across the organization.
• You contribute to the implementation of legal, compliance, and risk management best practices throughout SBM, ensuring the highest standards of legal integrity and operational efficiency.

Education

• LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) or LL.M. (Master of Laws) degree or equivalent, with coursework in energy law, environmental law, or maritime law preferred.
• Admitted to the bar in a relevant jurisdiction.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).

Experience

• Minimum 8 to 12 years of legal experience as in-house lawyer or in private practice [preferably with a background in an international law firm], with significant experience in the oil and gas, offshore or energy sectors.
• Experience managing or ability to lead junior lawyers/interns and/or small teams.
• Proven ability to manage complex contractual negotiations and navigate legal as well as regulatory challenges.
• Expertise in managing challenging legal matters across multiple jurisdictions
• Accurate and solution driven legal business partner with sound judgement and understanding of business needs and strategic drivers.
• Proven expertise in international contract law and/or corporate governance, and risk management.
• A clear understanding of the commercial and operational challenges presented by operating in offshore environments.

Functional Competencies

• Legal Research and Analysis
• Legal Language Simplification and Optimization
• Risk Awareness and Mitigation
• Legal Document Drafting and Review
• Business Acumen
• Negotiation
• Legal knowledge
• Ethical Judgment

GENERAL INFORMATION

SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.

SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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