Legal Counsel

JR United Kingdom; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Exciting new vacancy for a bright, motivated Legal Counsel of 3-5 years PQE to join Bryt Energy, a leading renewable electricity business. As Legal Counsel, your focus will include drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, amending customer supply contracts, contract organisation/management, and developing precedent agreements. This is a new role within the Legal department, reporting to the Head of Legal. Based in Birmingham with hybrid working arrangements.

Bryt Energy is a business-to-business electricity supplier, operating in the Industrial & Commercial (I&C) segment of the retail energy sector. They supply only zero carbon, 100% renewable electricity*, sourced solely from solar, wind, and hydro power, and are part of the Statkraft Group – Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy.

Responsibilities:

1. Provide legal analysis and advice related to electricity supply contracts with customers, including drafting variations to standard terms and participating in negotiations.
2. Review public authority procurement agreements and frameworks as part of prospective customer tender processes and assist with ongoing management of these once onboarded.
3. Assist with preparing terms and conditions for new product offerings.
4. Draft, review and participate in negotiations of contracts between the business and third-party service providers.
5. Develop, build-upon and manage updates to internal precedents.
6. Provide in-house legal training to the business.
7. Provide pragmatic legal advice to internal stakeholders, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations.
8. Proactively engage with the business to understand its operations, products, and strategic goals to tailor legal solutions effectively.
9. Collaborate across departments, working cross-functionally to ensure cohesive legal services.
10. Proactively identify legal risks related to a matter and recommend measures for mitigating such risks.
11. Manage relationships with external legal counsel, data protection, and compliance.
12. Stay abreast of legal and regulatory trends, applying this knowledge to ensure business compliance and circulating to stakeholders where appropriate.

Requirements:

1. Good understanding of the energy sector, including energy trading is advantageous, not essential.
2. 3-5 years PQE in commercial legal work from a top tier law firm(s) and/or in-house.
3. Experience in reviewing, drafting and negotiating a variety of commercial contracts, such as supply of service agreements, MOUs, NDAs, SaaS agreements and software re-seller agreements.

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Due to a high volume of applications, I will only respond to those deemed suitable for the role.

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