Legal Senior Advisor - Commercial Counsel

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 here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.