Corporate Counsel

Are you a highly motivated lawyer or solicitor with solid inhouse legal, contract negotiation and/or legal risk management experience? Then this position is the perfect match for you!

Your position 
In our Legal Department you will experience a team that emphasizes professionalism, collaboration, and a work-life balance. We prioritise staying up to date within the relevant professional areas. Together we have an ambition to deliver "world-class solutions to complex legal challenges". Semco Maritime is on an exciting growth journey, and this gives you an opportunity to grow and work in an international environment. 

Your tasks & responsibilities 
You will advise on and do contractual work primarily in relation to our offshore energy business and will also be supporting our procurement department. At the same time, you will be advising the business directly on a wide variety of commercial, legal and risk management issues.

Your tasks will include but are not limited to:

·         Providing high quality legal advice

·         Influencing decisions regarding commercial and legal issues

·         Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, sometimes with demanding deadlines

·         Being the responsible lawyer in case-processing for one or more offshore business divisions, 
          both in-house and externally

Your profile & qualifications
As a person we imagine that you are detail-oriented, self-driven and independent. You possess an analytic mindset, and it also comes naturally to you to be a good team player. Moreover, you are commercially conscious, confident and is self-driven, but do also acknowledge the strength of teamwork. It would be great if you have a broad sense of humour, a curious nature and are happy to co-operate within an informal legal work environment with seven great colleagues.

To succeed in this position, we imagine that you have the following qualifications:

·         Master’s degree in law is a firm requirement

·         Around 5 years of experience, preferably in the fields of commercial law, international agreements and 
          construction or energy law

·         Preferably have experience with international B2B negotiations. You could also have experience with 
          LOGIC, BIMCO or FIDIC or other standard agreements / agreed documents, or perhaps you have knowledge
          of German law or Common law

·         Experience in handling in-house legal work, hereunder solid experience of drafting, reviewing, and advising 
          on a variety of complex and high value contracts

·         Fluency in written and verbal English

Welcome to Semco Maritime 
We offer you an interesting and challenging job in an international organization, where we strive to provide innovative and sustainable solutions globally. You will get the unique opportunity to work in an environment characterized by dedication, passion, and ambition.

We offer flexible working arrangements, on-site fitness facilities, and tasty, organic food in our canteen that will have your taste buds singing. Plus, we like to have fun along the way with lots of fun social activities!Your place of work will be at our Global HQ located in Esbjerg, the hub of the Danish energy industry, right on the waterfront – views do not get any better than this. The position is full-time

We conduct our interviews on an ongoing basis, so if you are interested, you must submit your application as soon as possible via the link on the page.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact General Counsel, Henrik G. Jacobsen on +45 50 77 26 46 (late afternoon preferred). 

We look forward to hearing from you!