Legal and Risk Manager

4 days ago

New Zealand Sheffield Full time

Flexible location
- **In-house Group legal and risk**:

- **Ownership of commercial contracts**:

- **Champion of risk management**:

- **High energy, supportive culture**

**About the Role**

Reporting to the CFO/Company Secretary, this is great opportunity to take end-to-end ownership of the legal advisory function relating to commercial contracts within HEG. In addition, being the champion of the risk management, insurance, and business continuity delivery across the business. In this fast-paced role, you will be partnering with the business unit General Managers and Chief Operating Officers, and the CEO, in addition to other members of the senior leadership team and the Board, as a trusted commercial contracts legal expert. Your focus will be ensuring there is a robust and effective contract and tender framework and processes and that these are compliant with the agreed risk framework. As an expert in construction and facility maintenance contracts and tenders, you will be responsible for reviewing, advising, and negotiating on contractual terms to ensure the requirements of HEG are met.

Supported by a highly capable Senior Risk Officer, you will also be responsible for championing risk management practices across the Group, in accordance with ISO31000. This includes the maintenance of the Group’s risk registers, insurances programmes including the annual renewals, and site-specific business continuity plans.

In addition, you will be called upon from time to time to provide legal advice and support across HEG for other legal documents including procurement agreements and property leases.

The business is focused on providing high-quality service to customers and is committed to provide a safe and supportive working environment.

**Skills and Experience**
- Legal expert in construction and facility maintenance contracts and tenders
- Commercially astute with the ability to provide timely and accurate advice to senior leaders
- Ability to risk management practices in a corporate environment
- Collaborative with strong stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in cross-functional teams
- Output
- and detail-focused with the ability to effectively prioritise
- Tertiary and professional legal qualifications

**About the Company**

The **Horizon Energy Group** (HEG) has a purpose of creating enduring value for our communities and a vision of being New Zealand’s most trusted multi-discipline infrastructure services provider. HEG is owned by the community of the Eastern Bay of Plenty through the 100% shareholder Trust Horizon. HEG provides a diverse range of infrastructure services under various brands across the country. The HEG business units operate from more than 25 locations around New Zealand. These include; **Horizon Networks** and **Electrinet** as providers of electricity distribution and infrastructure services within the Eastern Bay of Plenty, the Tairawhiti region and beyond. **Aquaheat NZ**, the largest subcontractor of mechanical contracting services for vertical construction across NZ. **Aquaheat Facility Services**, which provides HVAC, plumbing and other hard services throughout NZ. **CoolLogic **provides industrial refrigeration contracting and servicing to primary industries across NZ. And finally, **Caldwell and Levesque **and **Electriserv** provide commercial and industrial electrical contracting services throughout NZ.

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