Job Description
Senior Legal Counsel - Leeds / London
Purpose of the Job:
Opportunity for a senior legal counsel within ENGIE UK, with a focus on the Renewables and Renewable Gases UK businesses. You will be required to provide timely and commercial legal advice, to assist in the negotiation and drafting of commercial and contractual matters such as tenders, projects, construction contracts, supply chain negotiations, variations and on-going contractual and operational matters and to deal with risk management, governance and compliance. You will require to demonstrate the ability to work automously, and progress your own matter negotiations and projects. In addition, you will assist the Country GC & Ethics Officer with UK Ethics compliance and implementation of Group Ethics policies.
Key Accountabilities:
* Responsibility for legal support on a broad range of complex commercial outsource transactions, supporting the ENGIE UK business;
* Providing commercial legal advice;
* Assisting in the governance of transactions at local and group level;
* Working closely with colleagues including throughout the Group and with customers;
* Management of external legal resource on particular projects;
* Providing advice to operational teams on appropriate strategies in relation to disputes that have not yet been formalised;
* Energy industry experience would be useful, but not essential;
* Involvement in developing and delivering training on various issues for colleagues across the business;
* Ability to take ownership of, and progress, own files and projects; and,
* Supporting ENGIE UK Ethics policies compliance.
Knowledge and Skills:
* Good knowledge of relevant areas of law including outsourcing, construction, and commercial contract.
* Knowledge of the energy industry preferred but not essential.
* Strong drafting and negotiating skills.
* Ability to deal with risk management, governance and compliance.
* Ability to manage a sizeable workload in a fast paced environment.
* Comfortable with stakeholder management but also able to work with colleagues at all levels of the business.
Experience:
* Experience of supply chain negotiations.
* Strong commercial contracts lifecycle experience.
* Experience in advising on pre-litigation contract disputes.
* Experience in leading on complex transactions.
* Some experience of energy projects preferred.
* Experience of managing own workload.
Qualifications:
* UK (or common law equivalent) qualified solicitor or barrister with ideally 6 years or greater, PQE.
Behavioural Capabilities:
* Team-spirited but also able to work independently and flexibly in a fast paced environment.
* Commercially astute and keen to be involved in the business.
* Resilient, self-starter, flexible and with positive attitude.
* Able to think on their feet to assess risk and exercise sound judgement.
* Enthusiastic about advising on a variety of size and type of contracts.
* Confident and have integrity sufficient to inspire trust and respect when dealing with people, regardless of their position or level.
* Ability to effectively manage workload priorities.