Legal Contracts Manager

Taylor Hopkinson are looking for a Legal & Contracts Manager to join our client, an offshore wind developer based in Edinburgh working on two ScotWind projects, 1GW Ayre Offshore Wind Farm, a floating wind project to the east of Orkney, and 1GW Bowdun Offshore Wind Farm, off the coast of Aberdeenshire.

This role is for an experienced professional with a proven track record in major infrastructure projects from development to operation phase, within a JV.

Your Tasks:

• Overseeing delivery of legal services and resources to accomplish corporate goals, strategies and priorities.
• Providing accurate, relevant, and timely legal advice on a variety of legal topics that relate to the offshore wind sector.
• Providing company secretarial support to the JV.
• Supporting tendering activity to help identify the most commercially attractive options.
• Leading the drafting, review and negotiation of contracts and other agreements entered into by the company.
• Ensuring that the company complies with relevant laws and regulations in its operations and business activities.
• Identifying and managing legal risks that the company may face and implementing strategies to mitigate those risks.
• Keeping abreast of changes to legislation, particularly in relation to laws, rules and regulations that directly affect the business and specific industry.
• Communicating with and actively managing external law firms via an external legal framework (to be established).
• Providing legal oversight over claims and other legal disputes, coordinating with external law firms when necessary to handle litigation matters.
• Supervising and delegating work to internal and external legal colleagues.
• Establishing and maintaining a set of appropriate legal templates.
• Leading the insurance aspects of the commercial contracts placed coordinating with external insurance advisers to ensure the company is not exposed to risk in insurance cover.

Your Profile:

• A law degree and a Practicing Certificate from the Law Society.
• Proven experience in offshore infrastructure projects.
• Effective negotiation skills, with a track record of delivering success in a commercial or engineering environments.
• Ability to provide detailed legal advice and information either verbally or in written form in an easily relatable manner.
• Demonstrable experience in managing external lawyers and assisting internal team members involved in tendering and contract negotiation and contract management.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to be able to onboard quickly and be instrumental in supporting the teams and being the reference person for any legal matters.