Senior Legal Counsel – LATAM

A Snapshot of Your Day

You will work closely with the business as a trusted legal business partner, helping enable opportunities while protecting Siemens Energy’s interests in a dynamic and multicultural LATAM environment. Your role will span the full business lifecycle, from the bid and proposal phase through contract negotiation, project execution and after-sales matters. You will review, draft and negotiate complex contracts with customers, suppliers and other business partners, provide pragmatic legal guidance on commercial and project-related matters, support technology collaborations, and help ensure that our contractual standards remain aligned with evolving regulatory requirements and market practices.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Be the trusted advisor and manage legal matters/risks in relation to general commercial and contract law in international business for Siemens Energy’s Grid Technology Business (including general legal aspects concerning intellectual property, product liability, procurement, administrative and general corporate law, torts and claims).
• Proactively assist and contribute to mastering business challenges by entrepreneurial thinking (balancing governance and business needs).
• Contribute to continuously improving the Legal function and, when needed, engage and effectively
• manage external counsel with a strong focus on quality, efficiency and cost awareness.
• Foster an organizational culture of ownership, empowerment, transparency, speak up and inclusion and diversity.
• Collaborate closely within the global LC community.
• Develop and provide training and educate key stakeholders.

What You Bring

• You have several years of professional experience in the legal department of an international company, with solid exposure to international projects and transactions, particularly in LATAM. Experience in the energy sector is preferred. You hold a law degree.
• You have gained professional experience in consulting business, sales and execution activities in the LATAM market.
• Relevant professional experience with a proven track record of successfully managing legal risks in complex transactions.
• Deep knowledge of contract law and international contract practice and the ability to lead personal strategic contracts/negotiations.
• You are customer orientated and have a passion to enable business transactions pragmatically and to inspire change. You are able to handle multiple demands at the same time.
• You enjoy working in a team and in an international environment.
• Good communications skills coupled with intercultural sensitivity and competence.
• Excellent language skills in verbal and written Portuguese, Spanish and English. German language (and other language skills) would be considered an asset.

About the Team

Our LATAM Legal team brings together professionals from different countries, cultures and backgrounds, working collaboratively as one regional team. We partner closely with the business across the entire project lifecycle, combining strong legal expertise with a pragmatic and commercial mindset. We value collaboration, open communication and different perspectives, with a shared commitment to enabling the business while protecting Siemens Energy’s interests.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• Career growth and development opportunities
• Supportive work culture
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits
• Paid Time Off and paid holidays
• Profit Sharing Program
• Private Pension
• Parental Leave