Legal Senior Advisor - Commercial Counsel
Baker Hughes
Senior Legal Counsel – Industrial Products - Valves
Would you like to be part of a team that provides essential legal guidance?
Would you like to help shape commercial and strategic direction?
Join our leading Legal Team
Our Legal team takes responsibility for supporting the execution of our company's global business and safeguarding its people, assets and interests. We provide critical legal support across the business, working closely with the business teams and the Legal department's functions.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will provide multifaceted legal advice and support to support the Valves business within our Industrial Products portfolio. This role will serve as a strategic legal advisor to the business, partnering closely with commercial, operations, engineering, and supply chain teams to drive growth while managing legal and compliance risk.
As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will be responsible for:
Leading draft, review, and negotiation of complex commercial agreements, including Sales agreements (standard and bespoke), Distribution, channel partner, and OEM agreements, Long-term supply agreements (LTAs), EPC and project-related contracts (where applicable)
Providing clear and actionable guidance on contract risk and mitigation strategies
Being primarily responsible for the management and coordination of legal and compliance affairs for the the valves business.
Acting as a trusted advisor to Valves business leadership on day-to-day legal matters
Supporting strategic initiatives, including new market entry, digital offerings, and product lifecycle matters
Collaborating cross-functionally with finance, compliance, tax, and operations
Ensuring compliance with applicable laws and internal policies, including Export controls and sanctions, Competition/antitrust, and Integrity and Code of Conduct
Fuel your passion
To be successful in this role you will:
Have Juris Doctor (JD) and admission to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
Have significant experience in a similar role providing legal counsel, with at least 10 years’ experience in similar role in-house or at a law firm
Have impressive knowledge and experience negotiating complex commercial contracts and transactions
Be able to demonstrate deep project management skills and process improvement skills
Be able to demonstrate leadership in interacting with cross-functional teams and providing strategic legal and compliance guidance to leadership
Be a natural communicator, with an ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
Be a motivated self-starter, proactively taking the initiative to lead and solve problems
Preferred but not mandatory
In-house experience in industrial, manufacturing, energy, or oil & gas sectors preferred
Experience supporting products-based businesses (e.g., valves, equipment, industrial systems) strongly preferred
Work in a way that works for you
We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
Working with us
Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.
Working for you
Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace challenge with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:
Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
Comprehensive private medical care options
Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
Tailored financial programs
Additional elected or voluntary benefits
About Us
With operations in over 120 countries, we provide better solutions for our customers and richer opportunities for our people. As a leading partner to the energy industry, we're committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and we're always looking for the right people to help us get there. People who are as passionate as we are about making energy safer, cleaner and more efficient.
Join Us
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!
Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.
This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found , and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.
The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Legal Senior Advisor - Commercial Counsel About Us:We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.
Join Us:Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values innovation and progress? Join us and become part of a team of people who will challenge and inspire you! Let’s come together and take energy forward.
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