Legal Counsel Sourcing

Legal Counsel - Sourcing

Would you like to play a key role in our business

Join our Legal Team!

Baker Hughes is the leading energy technology company who delivers across the energy value chain through our market-leading business segments. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries. Our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward! Making it safer cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Partner with the Best

As Sourcing Legal Counsel you will serve as key legal resource for I&ETs supply chain organization and responding to a variety of legal requests from global supply chain including procurement purchase orders placing and execution logistics and related teams environmental health & safety and advising on legal risks identified in relation to such requests and proposing solutions to mitigate such risks.

As Legal Counsel - Sourcing you will responsible for:

Drafting reviewing negotiating and maintaining a variety of complex international commercial agreements including strategic sourcing indirect sourcing joint development contract manufacturing logistics consulting general services and other operational and commercial agreements;

Drafting and maintaining templates for a variety of supply chain agreements including detailed negotiation position documents;

Developing processes and procedures for direct and indirect sourcing;

Providing training to internal business partners/stakeholders on a variety of legal issues including compliance;

Providing strategic and practical advice and subject matter expertise working with senior legal team members as appropriate on relevant supply-side legal regulatory and operational matters to business team leaders including security of supply contractual risks supplier risk management;

Working with cross-functional team members to identify and address compliance risks corruption and anti-bribery matters information security and data privacy corporate social responsibility trade compliance and related regulatory matters;

Building close cross-functional relationships and maintaining a strong knowledge of the products services and objectives supply chain organization and particularly the procurement team;

Managing relationships with external counsel and other professionals representing the company ;

Managing various pre-litigation support the litigation team as needed;

Managing supply chain-related legal aspects of acquisitions and divestitures; and

Managing special project teams working on cross-functional teams and taking on other legal tasks as requested;

Vendor recovery.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will have:

A Masters degree or higher in Law ( LLM JD or equivalent)

Candidates must be fully qualified attorneys in their relevant jurisdiction with post-qualification experience at a global organization and/or international law firm.

A strong background in contract drafting for multinational clients is required.

Must have a common law background or relevant work experience within common law.

Have relevant professional experience in drafting and negotiating a wide variety of contracts including contract manufacturing agreements joint development agreements master services agreements consulting agreements general service agreements non-disclosure agreements;

Be open and demonstrate ability to familiarize with various legal systems;

Have a proactive business-oriented approach with a hands-on mentality and the ability to identify and prioritize issues and provide pragmatic solutions to key stakeholders;

Be fluent in business English written and spoken any other language is a plus with a preference for Italian.

Understanding and knowledge of sustainability regulations with particular focus on impacts for supply chain organization will be considered a plus.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone this role we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us and you can expect:

Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

Comprehensive private medical care options

Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

Tailored financial programs

Additional elected or voluntary benefits