Total recrute un Conseiller juridique – Expédition, GENEVE-WTC1(CHE), Suisse
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced shipping lawyer to join our Legal Team based in Geneva, which provides legal support to Trading & Shipping and Gas & Power divisions at TOTAL.
As Legal Counsel, you will be closely working with Chartering and Shipping teams and support functions, ensuring that the company is able to achieve its commercial objectives in compliance with laws and regulations, properly managing and minimising legal risks, and providing solution-oriented legal services: practical, commercial, timely and cost effective.
Your missions would typically include the following:
- Provide shipping legal advice;
- Review and advise on time/ voyage charterparties, contracts of affreightment for crude oil, oil products, LNG, dry bulk, biofuels etc…and related documentation;
- Handle cargo contamination and cargo shortage claims against shipowners; advise on marine incidents and off-spec bunker issues, and liaise with internal shipping and trading clients and relevant P&I Club and insurers;
- Participate in crisis cells following any major incident/emergency situation;
- Provide shipping legal support, if required, to other Total Group entities outside T&S and Gas divisions;
- Advise on related trading issues, in particular in connection with contracts of carriage and/or bills of lading;
- Assist demurrage department with claims against shipowners and commercial counterparties.
More generally:
- Negotiation – assist internal clients in commercial and contractual negotiations with third parties;
- Risk – advise on legal risks and minimise the impact of legal risks for the business;
- Disputes – assist in the management of legal disputes for the Company and advise on the risks and outcomes (litigation, arbitration, mediation);
- Laws and regulations – monitor and advise on applicable shipping laws and international conventions;
- Assist in the instruction of external counsel and actively monitor and minimise external legal costs.
Context and environment
You will evolve in an international, fast-paced and dynamic trading environment with time-sensitive, business critical activities requiring responsiveness, proactivity, strong planning and organisational skills and attention to details. The decisions must be quick and require excellent mastery of legal topics.
Candidate profile
The ideal candidate would have a minimum of 5-year post-qualification experience, preferably as a solicitor in England and Wales.
A previous experience of shipping law is required; previous experience in the energy and/or trading area would be a considerable advantage.
You must be proficient in English legal drafting skills (and fluently speak, read and write in English). Legal knowledge of another European jurisdiction (or US law) is an advantage, as well as mastering French and/or another major European language.
You thrive working both as a team player and autonomously and demonstrated effective communication skills at all levels of the organisation. You also developed solid negotiation skills, solution-oriented attitude, collaborative mind-set and proactivity.
Metier
General Business Law
Employment type
Regular position
Experience level required
Minimum 6 years
Employer company
TOTSA TOTAL OIL TRADING SA
Interview location
GENEVE
About us / company profile
Give your best to better energy and make the commitment with Total. With over 500-plus professions in 130 countries, we offer high safety and environmental standards, strong ethical values, an innovation culture and wide-ranging career development. Be part of the global team whose mission is already shared by 100,000 employees: to make energy better each and every day.
Trading Shipping :
One of the most active players in the international oil markets
We have built a vast network of customers and suppliers worldwide, enabling us to trade on a daily basis with national oil companies, producers, other oil majors, refiners, traders, distributors and end-users.
We actively trade most crude grades and nearly all qualities of refined products, from high sulphur cracked fuel oil to gasoline components.
We have developed a set of trading strategies and expertise, which allows us to respond permanently to market changes and opportunities.
Through our commitment to the oil markets, we have become a major player in all their various aspects: physical, futures and derivatives.
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