Are you an experienced legal professional with a strong commercial mindset and solid experience in contract negotiation, legal risk management and in-house legal advisory? Then this position as Senior Corporate Counsel at Semco Maritime in Hamburg could be the perfect match for you.

Your position
In your new position as Senior Corporate Counsel, you will become the first in-house legal colleague based in Germany and play an important role in supporting our growing German business. You will work closely with colleagues across our German locations as well as with the wider Legal team in Denmark and Poland.

You will advise the business directly on a broad range of commercial, legal and risk-related matters, primarily within our Renewables business, where Semco Maritime provides services to established offshore wind parks. 

Your tasks & responsibilities
As Senior Corporate Counsel, your tasks will include but are not limited to:

• Providing high-quality legal advice to our Renewables division, hereunder the German business and relevant Group stakeholders
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, often in complex and time-sensitive settings
• Acting as a trusted legal advisor for our organisation and support day-to-day business decisions
• Identifying, assessing and mitigating legal and commercial risks in close collaboration with the business
• Supporting decision-making on contractual, commercial and risk-related matters across projects and functions

Your profile & qualifications
We are looking for an experienced legal professional who enjoys working close to the business and who is confident in balancing legal quality with commercial reality. You have a self-driven and independent approach to your work while believing in the strength of teamwork and collaboration.

To succeed in this position, you have:

• A master’s degree in law as well as professional fluency in English (written and spoken); both are firm requirements for this position
• 10(+) years of experience within commercial law, international agreements, in-house legal advisory or a similar legal environment
• Strong experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex commercial contracts
• Experience from the energy sector, offshore wind, international construction law and B2B negotiations, preferably with knowledge of FIDIC principles, BIMCO agreements or similar frameworks
• An analytical, structured and professionally robust way of working
• Confidence in advising senior stakeholders and translating legal risks into commercial guidance
• A broad sense of humour, curiosity and you’re happy to co-operate with good colleagues
• Appreciation for an international, (great and fun) professional environment with 11 legal colleagues in Denmark and Poland

Welcome to Semco Maritime
At Semco Maritime, we create change. For people. For projects. And for the global energy sector. With us, you will join a community of over 2,300 of the most dedicated thinkers and doers in the energy industry who are driving real change and making their own personal mark on the global energy landscape.

While everyone knows why the energy transition is vital, we are concerned with the journey. How to get there. By providing the answers needed to make change real. Because we believe that global energy ambitions can only be realized through hard work and clever pragmatic solutions. This is what we do. This is what we invite you to participate in.

Safety is at the core of everything we do, and we are committed to protecting our people, partners, and the planet as we work towards a sustainable energy future.

So yes, working for us will change the energy sector – and may well change you too. 

Care to join the movement?
Change. With us.