Job Description
Legal Counsel
Birmingham (Hybrid)
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:
• Provide legal analysis and advice related to electricity supply contracts with customers, including drafting variations to standard terms and participating in negotiations
• Review public authority procurement agreements and frameworks as part of prospective customer tender processes and assist with ongoing management of these once onboarded
• Assist with preparing terms and conditions for new product offerings
• Draft, review and participate in negotiations of contracts between the business and third-party service providers
• Develop, build-upon and manage updates to internal precedents
• Provide in-house legal training to the business
• Deliver a contract management system
• Provide pragmatic legal advice to internal stakeholders, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory and contractual obligations.
• Proactively engage with the business to understand its operations, products and strategic goals to tailor legal solutions effectively
• Collaborate across departments, working cross-functionally to ensure cohesive legal services
• Proactively identify legal risks related to a matter and recommend measures for mitigating such risks
• Manage relationships with external legal counsel, data protection and compliance
• Stay abreast of legal and regulatory trends, applying this knowledge to ensure business compliance and circulating to stakeholders where appropriate
Requirements:
• Good understanding of the energy sector, including energy trading is advantageous, not essential
• 3-5 years PQE in commercial legal work from a top tier law firm(s) and/or in-house
• 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
To apply or for more information please contact:
James Brewster: jamesbrewster@taylorroot.com +44 7734 239197
Due to a high volume of applications, I will only respond to those deemed suitable for the role.
*Please visit https://www.brytenergy.co.uk/100-renewable-electricity/ for more information on our products and services.
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