In-House Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel – Global Energy Business – Bucharest

Our client, a well-known global energy business with operations in over 100 countries is looking for an experienced Legal Counsel / general commercial lawyer to be responsible for Romania and based in Bucharest. This is a new role.

Your Responsibilities

As Senior Legal Counsel for Romania, your overall responsibility will be to support the country in local and regional business related activities. You will provide counsel and support within a range of legal areas such as commercial contract law, procurement law, labour law and compliance.

More specifically, you will:

• Prepare and review tenders and contracts (sales and purchasing).
• Support negotiations.
• Assist in pre-litigation / claims, local real estate matters and employment issues.
• Help to ensure compliance and to manage risk in accordance with applicable legal requirements and Group policies.
• Provide reasonable assistance to other members of the GLD as requested by the Legal Management.

Your Experience and Personal Qualifications:

In order to take on this position you should be a fully qualified lawyer authorized to practice law in Romania having a Bachelor of Laws degree or higher. You have minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, ideally in an in-house environment. We expect that you have a solid experience in reviewing and preparing agreements and independently performing negotiations. Additionally, experience with either construction, engineering, energy or IT law is a strong advantage.

You are highly respected in your field and known as a person with high integrity. You have strong collaboration skills and easily form relations in a multicultural environment. You are structured and meticulous and enjoy working at a high pace without compromising on the level of detail and quality. Furthermore, you are able to handle complex legal issues in a pragmatic and solution-oriented manner.

You will work in an international setting and will be communicating in Romanian and English. If you speak other languages it will be beneficial.

The successful applicant will enjoy a position with great responsibility and independence, where you will have a central role close to customers. The business offers a diversified workplace with attractive conditions and the perspectives for development within an international group. Through regular trainings you will be ideally supported in your tasks and be accompanied in your career.

For consideration, please forward your details to Mila Read of McKenzieDouglas.

To be considered for this role you must be eligible to work in Romania.

 *McKenzie Douglas ALWAYS reviews all applications on merit

Please be aware that due to the volume of applications for this position, only relevant candidates will be contacted. If you are not contacted, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.