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We are open to applicants on a part-time or full-time basis who meet the skills outlined.
We are looking for a commercially minded lawyer to join as Senior Legal Counsel to directly support the Legal Affairs Director, Legal Counsel and Legal and Contracts Specialist to provide a broad range of day-to-day legal support across Good Energy.
This role is not just about providing accurate, relevant and timely legal advice. One of the most enjoyable challenges of the role is to apply a commercial mindset; managing and balancing legal risk against commercial considerations to deliver what the business needs. This requires an appreciation of the commercial context and objectives of the business. It is not essential to have prior experience in the energy sector, but we need someone with the enthusiasm and passion to move beyond black letter law and get under the skin of the business.
Emotional intelligence, self-awareness and an ability to adapt your approach and communication style are important for this role as you will form close working relationships with individuals of all levels of seniority in the business.
Working as part of a small team, in an agile and dynamic way, the role will see a broad range of legal work types – commercial contracting, SaaS/PaaS agreements, brand and intellectual property, corporate transactions and, occasionally, disputes. We don’t expect you to have a deep understanding of all these areas, but an enthusiasm for new challenges, willingness to learn new areas and a pragmatic approach to problem solving are important.
We are open to applicants on a part-time or full-time basis who meet the skills outlined.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Providing commercially considered legal support and advice including a wide range of corporate, commercial and regulatory matters
- Ensuring that legal risks are identified and escalated as appropriate
- Managing and mitigating legal risks by flexibly implementing our contract approval process
- Working collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders across Good Energy to identify and deliver pragmatic solutions within agreed timelines
- Assist in designing, implementing and securing adherence to competence and training procedures across the business.
What you'll need to succeed
About You
- Legally qualified, ideally with at least 3-4 years post qualification experience in a general commercial or corporate role
- In-house experience preferable, although not essential
- Confident, commercial, creative, excellent communicator and able to build relationships with a wide range of people
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, changing, environment
Legal skills:
- Experience of delivering pragmatic legal support and evidence of offering simple solutions to complex legal challenges
- Good drafting and commercial contracting skills; expressing complex concepts in plain and simple language
- Business facing experience in a legal role dealing with complex, high profile and important legal matters working directly with senior business leaders
Commercial know-how:
- Evidenced experience of balancing commercial need against considered risks to identify pragmatic and viable solutions.
- Ability to be flexible in approach and style recognising when alternative solutions need to be identified
- Understanding the external market place and in particular the regulatory and political environment
- Understanding Good Energy’s purpose, direction, strategy and its customers
- Creative thinking, intelligent decision-making and seeking input from key stakeholders on decision to ensure this is consistent with the Good Energy’s direction
Relationship building:
- Clear and effective communication and influencing skills
- Experience in having successfully built “trusted advisor” relationships and delivering successfully in fast-paced, changing environments
- Confidence and credibility with colleagues of a range of levels seniority
- Effective decision making within the team, including being able to react at speed to changing circumstances and make decisions under pressure
Benefits you can rely on
Great allowances for hybrid working: We support employees with their commuting expenses and provide flexibility for remote working.
- £500 work from home allowance - an annual allowance paid monthly alongside your salary to support with working from home costs.
- £500 travel allowance - an annual allowance paid monthly alongside your salary to support with travelling to work costs.
£500 annual development allowance: to spend on your chosen development area, whether that’s in your current role, or future roles.
20% annual bonus: company-wide bonus scheme designed to reward collective teamwork and delivery of results across the whole business.
20% annual bonus: company-wide bonus scheme designed to reward collective teamwork and delivery of results across the whole business.
Holiday: 25 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, additional days leave for long service, plus bank holidays. You’ll also have the option to buy additional leave, allowing for a better work-life balance.
Ethical Pension with Aviva: Good Energy offers an ethical pension plan provided by Aviva, with employer-matched contributions up to 7.5% of your base salary.
See more of our benefits here.
About Good Energy
We’re Good Energy. Our aim is to help one million homes and businesses to cut their carbon by 2025 – by becoming a one stop shop for everything green…
We provide 100% renewable electricity bought directly from our community of 2000 independent renewable generators. We install heat pumps, an essential tool for getting homes off gas. We support customers to generate and store their own power, by installing solar panels and battery storage. We also develop innovative tariffs to pay small generators fairly for what they export; and to get households involved in balancing the grid too.
If you’re ready to make combatting the climate crisis your job, and believe in our values of being, fair, straightforward, focused, and inclusive; then we want to hear from you. Let’s power a cleaner, greener future together.
Find out more about what makes us different here.
Our Commitment
We're a Committed Member of Inclusive Employers and value people’s differences - we recognise the strength that they give us. We work hard to be a supportive community where everyone has equal opportunities and we encourage applications from people irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity or sexual orientation.
Where are we?
Our office is based in Chippenham, Wiltshire and is conveniently located near the train station, providing green travel options for travel, as well as fast connections to Bristol, Bath, Swindon and London. The office is fully accessible, allowing everyone to participate fully in their working lives regardless of any mobility challenges.
We promote work-life balance and flexibility through hybrid working, which combines both remote and office work. It provides our people with the opportunity to tailor their work schedules to suit their individual needs and preferences while maintaining productivity and engagement.
