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Dow has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Senior Legal Counsel to serve as a trusted legal and business adviser supporting Dow's operations in Argentina.
About You and This Role
In this role, you will partner closely with business, manufacturing and functional leaders to help enable safe, compliant and successful operations while managing legal risk and protecting Dow's interests. You will lead complex and sensitive matters, establish legal strategies and provide practical, values-driven advice while adapting to evolving business and organizational priorities.
Responsibilities
- Provide timely, practical and risk-based legal advice aligned with business objectives, functional priorities and Dow values in Argentina.
- Independently manage a diverse portfolio of complex matters, establish priorities and escalation paths, and take ownership through resolution.
- Advise on environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, operational compliance, permitting, inspections, incident response and remediation.
- Provide strategic advice on employment and labor matters, including union engagement, organizational changes, workplace investigations, terminations and disputes.
- Support interactions with regulators, governmental authorities and industry associations, as appropriate.
- Manage outside counsel and other service providers, including legal strategy, performance, budgets and alignment with business objectives.
- Partner closely with the Bahía Blanca site, traveling there at least once per month and additionally as business needs require.
- Collaborate across functions and organizational levels to influence decisions, build consensus and support effective decision-making in complex or sensitive situations.
- Support compliance initiatives, investigations, litigation management and other legal matters affecting Dow's businesses and sites as needs evolve.
- Drive legal operations and continuous improvement initiatives, including process simplification, knowledge management and effective legal service delivery.
- Deliver legal training and contribute to an inclusive, collaborative Legal team through knowledge sharing, mentorship and support.
Qualifications
- Law degree and active qualification to practice law in Argentina, with at least eight years of relevant legal experience.
- Experience in a leading law firm, in-house legal department, or a combination of both, with demonstrated success independently managing complex, high-impact matters.
- Experience advising clients in the energy, chemicals, petrochemicals, manufacturing, natural resources or other highly regulated industries is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience managing employment, labor, environmental, regulatory and operational legal matters.
- Strong drafting, negotiation, analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
- Fluent Spanish and English, written and spoken, are required. Portuguese language skills are a plus.
- Ability and willingness to travel to Bahía Blanca at least once per month and additionally as business needs require.
Your Skills:
- Uncompromising integrity, high ethical standards and sound, values-based judgment.
- Independent ownership, accountability and consistent follow-through.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust across businesses, sites, functions and cultures.
- Business acumen and the ability to balance legal risk, operational realities and strategic priorities.
- Ability to influence without authority, navigate ambiguity and communicate clear, actionable recommendations.
- Demonstrated commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and respected.
- Commitment to collaboration, respect and teamwork.
- Ability to coach, influence and contribute positively to team development, regardless of formal reporting relationships.
- Agility, resilience and flexibility to manage competing priorities and adapt to evolving business needs and role responsibilities.
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Benefits – What Dow offers you
We invest in you.
Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
Join our team, we can make a difference together.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2024. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.
As part of our dedication to inclusion, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.
