Global Legal Counsel

Would you like to secure the best contracts for our Global Commercial organization in a fast-paced company in continuous growth but still with the work-life balance in mind?

As our Global Legal Counsel, you will play a key role in delivering sound legal advice regarding contract management, insurance, and compliance, and governance. You can look forward to having a broad international stakeholder base in Flex Wind as well as externally with a wide range of clients and suppliers.

Working from our HQ in Give, you will be reporting to our CFO and be part of a global organization with dedicated colleagues with a broad range of experience and knowledge, working with a large scope of tasks.

In this role, your focus will be to act as a highly valued legal business partner to the business. This involves drafting and negotiating a broad range of contracts, ensuring that contractual obligations are acceptable from a Flex Wind Group perspective.

In addition to this, you will take the lead in shaping and developing your functional area, enabling us to continuously drive professional contract management going forward. This could e.g. include the implementation and roll-out of a dedicated contract life-cycle management program, drafting templates, advising and training colleagues about contracts and proactively identifying areas, methods and processes which can be further professionalized.

In short, your main responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

  • Identify legal and commercial risks and opportunities and provide high quality legal advice.
  • Negotiating commercial contracts with customers and Vendors (frame agreement)
  • Ensure proper insurance coverage across the FW Group
  • Prepare Risk assessment with primary focus on contracts to EMT and BoD.
  • Form and manage direct relationships and communication with external specialists. 
  • Support M&A processes and project work

Who are we?

Flex Wind is a fast-growing global service provider within installation and maintenance of wind turbines. Flex Wind with HQ in Denmark is a market leader in LATAM and is growing in the European market. 500 employees in Denmark, Poland, Brazil, Argentina, and South Africa. We install wind power across the globe. Flex Wind is on an exciting growth journey, and this gives you an opportunity to grow and work in an international environment.

Who are you?

To succeed and thrive in this position, we believe that you are an experienced lawyer with proven legal skills, a strong commercial and international mindset, combined with a strong personal drive. You have good skills in building relationship and the ability to establish trust and collaborate across different functions and organisational levels.

Furthermore, you bring:

  • A Master of Law degree (Cand.Jur or Cand.Merc.Jur)
  • 5 years of experience as an in-house counsel in an international company with a proven track record of working with contracts and legal risk management.
  • A forward-thinking personality with a strong commercial understanding and ability to balance legal risks with business risks and business needs.
  • Excellent language skills in Danish and English (verbally and written)

What we offer you:

  • This is a new position, giving you the opportunity to influence the role and the scope.
  • You will work closely with the business in a small but global company.
  • To be part of a truly international team with motivated colleagues,
  • Varied and interesting work that contributes to the green energy transition.
  • A positive, dynamic, and supportive work environment
  • Flexible working time and the possibility of hybrid work
  • Professional and personal development in an international and multi-cultural environment

Is this the job for you?

We look forward to receiving your application and CV in English.

Please apply on our webpage. www.flex-wind.com.

If you have any questions, please contact CFO Henrik Schaar by phone +45 29 38 58 06.

At Flex Wind, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics, and traits make us better at serving customers. So please come as you are.

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