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About the Role

Provide strategic legal advice to commodity trading and shipping businesses, ensuring compliance with governance requirements. Work closely with an experienced legal team to deliver practical, business-oriented guidance and maintain strong relationships with external partners.

Responsibilities

• Providing legal advice to the commodity trading and shipping businesses in line with our strategy and values
• Understanding internal and external governance requirements and assisting stakeholders in navigating them
• Working closely with a team of talented and experienced lawyers within Marketing and the broader Group Legal function to consistently deliver pragmatic advice
• Managing relationships with key external stakeholders, including law firms

Requirements

• Credible legal professional capable of understanding complex transactions and projects across various commodities
• Healthy curiosity and willingness to work autonomously
• Proactive business partnering and robust stakeholder engagement within a global, fast-paced sales and trading environment
• Qualified attorney (common law jurisdictions preferred)
• Minimum 6 years PQE, preferably with some in-house experience (ideally in commodity trading)
• Strong negotiation and drafting experience, particularly in cross-border commodity trading agreements and associated financing instruments
• Familiarity with international legal instruments and trading standards (e.g. Incoterms, ScoTA, LME) and trade finance structures

Skills

• Legal advice
• Compliance
• Stakeholder management
• Negotiation
• Drafting
• Commodity trading agreements
• Financing instruments
• International legal instruments
• Trading standards
• Trade finance structures

Experience Level

• Minimum 6 years PQE

Education Level

• Qualified attorney (common law jurisdictions preferred)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package

About the Company

• Re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.
• Striving to be a great company where employees are happy and inspired to do their best work.
• A place where every colleague can grow, develop and realise their potential.
• Putting the development and growth of colleagues first by ensuring that everyone has the career experience they deserve.
• Aim to lead the industry by pursuing ever safer ways of working, demonstrating integrity and showing care and respect for people and the planet.
• Constantly seeking new opportunities to mine and process our products sustainably, using less water, less energy and more precise extraction technologies.
• Extraordinary teams work safely and collaboratively, with the utmost consideration for local communities, our customers and the world at large.

Equal Opportunity

• Committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are.
• Provide equality of opportunity to enable everyone to fulfil their potential.