Legal and Commercial Specialist

The salary range is between 3000- 3500 AZN NET.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluates or monitor contract performance to determine the necessity for amendments or extensions of contracts and compliance with contractual obligations.
• Arbitrates claims or complaints occurring in the performance of contracts.
• Analyses price proposals, financial reports, and other data to determine the reasonableness of prices.
• Serves as liaison officer to ensure fulfillment of obligations by contractors.
• Interprets and applies laws, regulations, policies, standards, or procedures to specific issues.
• Implement new or revised laws, regulations, policies, standards, or procedures.
• Develops and prepares the most complex Request for Proposals (RFP), Requests for Information (RFI), and complicated bid documents.
• Serves as an expert resource for the company on policies and procedures related to procurement and contracting.
• Maintains and keeps current an electronic library of contract/agreement templates approved by the Commercial and Legal Manager for use by all staff. Ensures templates meet all applicable international conventions and local laws and regulations.
• Assists line manager, project management, and Operations/Technical teams with various duties including providing subject matter expertise on contractual matters.
• Ensures contract compliance with business commitments, company policies, laws, and regulations.
• Negotiating and agreeing on Contracts on behalf of the Company as directed by the Commercial and Legal manager.
• Ensures that all Contract documentation is reviewed and updated as required.
• Provide operational support and advice to management and staff in relation to contracting and contractor management.
• Preparation of service agreements, time-charter, and bareboat charter contracts.
• Undertakes due diligence in mitigating all risks in contract execution.

Essential requirements:

• Azerbaijani citizenship
• University Degree / Diploma in Law with at least 3-year experience in legal/contract administration activity.
• Knowledge of Azerbaijani and international legislation.
• Ability to work with contracts and other legal documents.
• Skills in legal review, contract administration, and preparation of draft contracts.
• Advanced PC user: knowledge of such programs as MS Office, and Adobe PDF editor, experience of work with Procurement and/or Contract Management software (incl. web-based).
• Perfect negotiation skills.
• Fluent in English, Azerbaijani, and Russian (writing skills in all three languages are critical).
• Teamwork, pro-activity, quality-focused, detail-oriented, high level of accuracy, diligence, and self-motivation.

Contact details:

• The duration of the employment contract is one year with further extension.
• Work schedule would typically be 5 working days (Monday-Friday).
• Primary place of work will be office.