Airswift is working with one of our major clients to find a Commercial Contracts Advisor to join their team on a 1-year assignment in Calgary. This person will be accountable for reviewing, drafting and negotiating standard and non-standard agreements such as guarantees, confidentiality agreements and various commodity agreements with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Ensures timely and accurate review, negotiation, execution, management, and retention of incoming and outgoing parental guarantees and confidentiality agreements.
- Ensures timely and accurate review, negotiation, execution, management, and retention of various Trading, Supply and Logistics various commodities, such as crude oil and natural gas purchase and sale agreements. This includes, but is not limited to, General Terms and Conditions and Master Agreements with various modes of transportation.
- Coordinates with Front Office and its support functions such as Credit, Legal, Tax, Accounting, Insurance, Customs and Risk Compliance (Support Functions) to: draft, negotiate, review, and amend guarantees and confidentiality agreements and various commodities purchase and sale agreements.
- Interacts directly as the company representative with counterparties to complete negotiations of agreements.
- Uses day-to-day knowledge, recognizing trends and identifying new business needs: work with Front Office and its Support Functions in the development and continuous improvement of precedent agreements, one-off contracts, and the company practices.
- Maintains an evolving knowledge of changing industry practices pertinent to marketing agreement types.
- Ensures proper records documentation and contractual data is maintained in SharePoint the document management system and Egistix and Allegro (ETRMs).
Qualifications:
- 5+ years related experience in negotiation of guarantees, confidentiality agreements and various commodity purchase and sale contracts
- Legal assistant program and/or legal background would be considered an asset
- Experience reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts
- Experience in execution, management and retention of contracts
- Exceptional understanding of Incoterms
- Proficiency in understanding of legal contractual language