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What’s the role
The primary purpose of this role is to provide professional, timely, cost-effective, and practical legal advice and support to the Shell Trinidad and Tobago Integrated Gas business. The Integrated Gas portfolio includes a variety of complex Shell operated and non-operated ventures and greenfield, expansion and backfill projects. The role reports directly to the Managing Counsel IG LatAm & Head of Legal Trinidad and Tobago.
The primary role of the Legal Services Integrated Gas team is to provide legal advice, support and related services to business units and projects within the Integrated Gas business. Team members may also provide legal advice, support and related services to other business units and projects (including businesses and projects within other parts of Integrated Gas & Upstream, Downstream, Renewables and Acquisition, Divestment & New Business Development projects). The team is expected to provide such advice, support, and related services in a proactive, timely, cost-effective, and professional manner with a view to furthering business objectives in support of the Shell Group Strategy, adding value and protecting shareholder interests.
The Legal Services Integrated Gas team advises on a broad variety of transactional, contentious, regulatory and compliance matters. It seeks to ensure that legal risks are identified, appropriate legal strategies are considered, and documents are appropriately drafted to reflect commercial decisions, always consistent with professional standards, legal obligations, the Shell General Business Principles, and the Shell Control Framework.
What you’ll be doing:
- Act as lead lawyer or provide support on material Integrated Gas related legal matters/projects and from time to time on other complex legal matters (including those within other parts of Integrated Gas & Upstream) including new business development, acquisitions and divestments, contracts and procurement, litigations matters and ethics and compliance and joint venture governance. This role is expected to be significantly focused on providing support to the Integrated Gas and Upstream businesses in Trinidad & Tobago with exposure to matters within the LatAm region as well.
- Ensure that legal considerations, including mitigation of legal risks identified, are considered in operations, planning activities, contracting, new business/project development, including relations with relevant third parties
- Ensure optimal use of internal and external legal resources to ensure provision of professional, timely, cost effective and commercial legal advice and support, balancing both risk and value
- Monitor relevant legal developments and communicate these to the business and functional Directorates
- Provide strategic advice to the business, including in relation to commercial and political matters, and act as a sounding board for key decisions and policy matters
- Work with commercial colleagues to develop the legal and commercial structure of the existing business activities and any new business opportunities that arise
- Engage and collaborate with Shell lawyers globally across the function
- Engage and collaborate with senior stakeholders across multiple business and organizational lines
- Create a positive, proactive culture encouraging high performance and collaboration, with a focus on continuous improvement
- Contribute to the broader Shell Group business, reputational and stakeholder agenda
- Maximize benefits and minimize risks that could represent any kind of loss to shareholders, while delivering the business objectives
- Propose strategies and provide legal support that enable safe, efficient, and agile decisions to secure competitive advantages
- Ensure that legal risks are identified, appropriate alternative structures and strategies are considered, and documents are appropriately drafted to reflect commercial decisions, always consistent with professional standards, legal obligations, the Shell General Business Principles, and the Shell Control Framework
- The role does not have any direct reports, but the incumbent is expected to coach and mentor more junior lawyers often in different jurisdictions
- Accountable for protecting Shell’s rights and reputation in all commercial and contractual arrangements
- Provide advice in connection with, or otherwise participate in, key engagements with regulatory agencies and other stakeholders
- Protect Shell's interests and enhance Shell's reputation and brand by providing sound legal advice, negotiating, and drafting legal agreements
- Provide support to energy transition matters and related innovative projects
What we need from you
- Must have legal authorization to work in Trinidad & Tobago on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.
- Minimum 5-10 years of experience
- Law degree and professional legal qualification
- Excellent legal and strategic judgment, coupled with strong business partnering, integrator and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent legal contracting and drafting skills
- Role model leadership and foundational behaviors – acting as “one Shell” and constantly embracing HSSE, Compliance, collaboration, business partnering and continuous improvement
- Incisive grasp of legal issues, demonstrated learner mindset and capability to expand knowledge in relevant areas of law
- Ability to work inclusively with both internal and external stakeholders with diverse backgrounds, including senior government officials, senior lawyers/business representatives
- Strong analytical skills, business acumen, risk assessment ability and ability to balance competing interests of businesses at varied stages of their evolution
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to develop and sustain relationships and trust with business and functions at all levels and in a range of cultures
- Good commercial mind and the ability to handle multiple demanding clients in a project environment which requires a quick and thoughtful legal touch across several legal disciplines
- Ability to address issues creatively and sensitively and to build excellent networking relationships across a range of internal and external organizations
- Resilience to keep a calm and balanced approach and maintain a robust stance in respect of allocation of risk for the Group, while balancing that with commercial and strategic drivers
- Ability to clearly explain legal risks, develop sound mitigation strategies and find acceptable commercial solutions
- Ability to speak Spanish is an asset.
What we offer
You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with our team of talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.
- Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together
- Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead
- Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices
- Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise
- Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself
- Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working
- Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world
- Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents
- Join an organization working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply
- Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams
- Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes
Note: We are keen to support flexible working arrangements, subject to local regulations and legislative frameworks. If this is of interest to you, please describe in your application the type of flexible working arrangements for which you would like to be considered (e.g., part-time, job share).
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Shell in Trinidad & Tobago
Shell has been in Trinidad & Tobago for over 100 years and has played a major role in the development of the country’s hydrocarbon industry. At its pinnacle in the 1960s, Shell was said to be the largest private sector employer in the country, with a refinery at Point Fortin, the current location of the Atlantic LNG facility and a retail presence. Through more than 100 years of unbroken partnership, we have helped to unlock the country’s oil and gas potential, to the benefit of both the government and people. We value this long-term relationship, which is built on the principles of mutual respect and collaboration, as well as a stable political and commercial environment, all of which continues to foster an attractive investment climate.
Currently, Shell delivers an integrated gas operation to supply the petrochemical market and Atlantic LNG through its offshore blocks (both operated and non-operated). We have an equity interest in the Atlantic LNG plant in Point Fortin and Trinidad is also a hub for the development of several opportunities in the wider region.
Our key pillars of economic diversification and livelihood development guide our engagement within the communities in which we operate, as well as at a national level.
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