Legal Counsel

City : Rotterdam

State : Zuid-Holland (NL-ZH)

Country : Netherlands (NL)

Requisition Number: 46258

Shape the future of global logistics as our future **Legal Counsel – Global Freight (Freight Value Chain)

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Are you a dynamic legal professional eager to apply your expertise in the specialized field of global freight and shipping? We are seeking a Legal Counsel to provide vital legal support to our Freight Value Chain, navigating its unique legal challenges and opportunities. This role is crucial for ensuring the smooth and compliant operation of our global freight activities.

What's in it for you

• Strategic contribution: Actively contribute to strategic business development and provide vital legal advice to the business across our Freight Value Chain.
• Global network: Collaboration with our international legal department and cross-functional teams worldwide to ensure seamless and aligned legal support.
• Growth & development: Ongoing training and exciting development opportunities within a dynamic, globally active organization.
• Creative freedom: Independent work in an environment that values initiative and entrepreneurial thinking, combining best practices from legal department colleagues globally.
• Attractive overall package: Competitive compensation and benefits commensurate with your experience and impact.

Your Responsibilities

• Provide general and strategic legal counsel and support on all legal matters involving global freight across our Freight Value Chain, proactively identifying and addressing legal risks and issues.
• Act as an integral part of the global freight legal team, offering broader support to the European regional team.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various commercial documents specific to freight, including charterparties, letters of indemnity, guarantees, novations, assignments, bills of lading, agency, and port agreements.
• Managing and advising on commercial disputes, litigation, and arbitrations arising in the freight sector, both in-house and with external counsel, including monitoring legal fees and reserves.
• Partnering closely with the Freight Value Chain and cross-functional teams to ensure a unified approach to global freight legal issues, gaining a deep understanding of business strategies, challenges, and opportunities.
• Monitoring regulatory developments affecting global freight and shipping, and advising on compliance matters (including credit and risk management) in conjunction with relevant functions.
• Developing and delivering internal training sessions on relevant global freight legal topics.
• Supporting the use of legal technology tools (e.g., Docusign, Tracker) and contributing to efficient legal operations.
• Providing management with required reports on litigation, projects, and costs.
• Developing, overseeing, and managing relationships with external law firms, including cost control and budgeting.

Your Profile

• Fully qualified solicitor (preferably UK qualified) or comparable qualification with English and common law experience.
• At least 2 years PQE (Post-Qualification Experience).
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in an international law firm and/or as in-house counsel, dedicated to commodities trading and/or shipping, with a strong preference for freight/maritime law experience.
• Excellent skills in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex legal agreements and contracts, especially those pertinent to global freight.
• Deep understanding of commercial law, maritime law, trade law, and regulatory issues pertinent to global freight and shipping.
• Strong communication skills in English (both oral and written) with the ability to effectively convey complex legal concepts; additional languages are a plus.
• Analytical strength, excellent research, and problem-solving skills, with a pragmatic approach.
• Team-oriented personality with the ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively, build relationships, prioritize effectively, and demonstrate business acumen.

At Bunge (NYSE: BG), our purpose is to connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world. As a premier agribusiness solutions provider, our team of ~34,000 dedicated employees partner with farmers across the globe to move agricultural commodities from where they’re grown to where they’re needed—in faster, smarter, and more efficient ways. We are a world leader in grain origination, storage, distribution, oilseed processing and refining, offering a broad portfolio of plant-based oils, fats, and proteins. We work alongside our customers at both ends of the value chain to deliver quality products and develop tailored, innovative solutions that address evolving consumer needs. With 200+ years of experience and presence in over 50 countries, we are committed to strengthening global food security, advancing sustainability, and helping communities prosper where we operate. Bunge has its registered office in Geneva, Switzerland and its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Learn more at Bunge.com.

Every day our people exemplify these values, which represent Bunge at its core:

•    We Are One Team – Collaborative, Respectful, Inclusive
•    We Lead The Way – Agile, Empowered, Innovative
•    We Do What’s Right – Safety, Sustainability, With Integrity

If this sounds like you, join us!  We value and invest in people who believe in our purpose and are excited to live it every day – people who are #ProudtoBeBunge