Commercial Counsel

At World Kinect, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.

World Kinect is a market leading energy and logistics services provider – check us out at: world-kinect.com. We take pride in the diversity and innovative approach of our global legal team.

We seek a commercially aligned attorney to join our team and provide hands-on and proactive advice to our energy supply and trading businesses.

Reporting to the Managing Counsel and joining our 35+ member legal team which operate from locations in the US, UK, South Africa, Costa Rica and Brazil, this role presents an exciting opportunity for the right individual.

World Kinect embraces technology and efficient working practices.

Main Responsibilities:

Key duties and responsibilities include:

• Advising on:

  • Energy product sale, purchase, logistics and service agreements

  • Commercial contracts relating to the operation of World Kinect’s global business

• Providing general commercial legal support to a team of legal professionals who are advisers to World Kinect’s global energy trading business

• A strong and proactive focus on compliance

• Proactively developing contract management and other legal processes and contract templates to promote efficient workflows and align legal risk management requirements across the WKC Group

• Educating business and support colleagues on legal and contract matters and best practices

• Internal and external customer support – developing connectivity and relations with colleagues in other offices and building direct relationships with customers and key suppliers

• Strong, visible and frequent collaboration with internal stakeholders –

• At all times be a positive brand ambassador for World Kinect and its subsidiaries

Main Requirements:

• Law Degree and 4+ years of experience.

• Training and post qualification experience at a leading law firm. In-house commercial legal experience, which may include time at an energy company, oil major, trading house or shipping, transportation, renewables or industrial services company is welcomed but not essential

• A pragmatic, hands-on lawyer who is able to think on their feet and find sensible solutions to legal challenges; ability to assess issues, take ownership and efficiently implement solutions

• Strong stakeholder management skills - emotionally intelligent and able to win trust and develop business relationships

• Knowledge and a passion to assist World Kinect in its sustainable energy transition

• Professional presence and integrity

• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic, performance-driven culture.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills