Legal Counsel - DGF Industrial Projects at DHL

Job Purpose:

• Legal support to DHL Business, focusing on freight forwarding.  The role will require supporting a global team in a challenging multi-jurisdictional project engineering environment to ensure robust legal guidance as well as implementing legal processes and procedures to identify and mitigate legal risks and protect DHL's legal and business interests in line with business needs, established legal framework, standards, approval guidances, applicable laws and regulations

Your tasks:

• Contract reviews within a complex freight forwarding environment
• Giving legal advice in a multi-jurisdictional Business
• Balance legal guidance and operational considerations when supporting the Business
• Advise and counsel functional or operational part of the Business  to ensure proposed business activities, policies, practices and transactions comply with internal policies as well as relevant laws and regulations
• Prepare legal contracts, letters of agreement, and other documents related to trade, commercial, financial, and operational matters – in particular negotiating contracts with global DHL’s customers - to protect organization’s legal and business interests
• Supporting with claims made against the company including advising the Business and supporting with resolution of the claims.
• Prepare materials for external legal counsel and liaise with them so that they are well-prepared to represent the organization in legal proceedings.
• Legal research & document drafting, contract negotiation & administration and legal records management
• Analyze and applying legal rules and regulations in a multi-jurisdictional context

Your profile:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience/qualification
• 4+ years of legal practice either within commercial law firm or in house legal department;
• Experience with contracts from Logistics, Construction, Engineering, Oil & Gas industry would be a great advantage
• Skilled in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex contracts in a commercial, pragmatic manner.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to advise and influence at senior management level.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, work autonomously, and deliver under pressure.
• Demonstrates leadership qualities and experience mentoring or managing legal professionals.
• Commercially minded, decisive, and solutions-oriented, with integrity and professionalism at the core of your work.