Legal Counsel

THE ROLE:

Location:
Birmingham
Hours
Part-time, Monday- Friday, 4 days (30 hours) a week

YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

  • Provide legal analysis and advice related to Bryt Energy’s electricity supply contracts with its 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 Bryt Energy’s new product offerings.
  • Draft, review and participate in negotiations of contracts between Bryt Energy and our 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.
  • Hold a detailed understanding of all Bryt Energy products and their key commercial risks and benefits.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:

Education and Training:

  • Preferably a strong academic record with a degree of 2:1 or above from a well-regarded university and England & Wales qualified to 3-5 years PQE.
  • Good understanding of the energy sector, including energy trading is advantageous.
  • Experience 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.

 

Abilities and Skills:

  • Strong Microsoft skills in Word in order to produce documents and reports as required.
  • Highly effective organisation and prioritisation skills.
  • Excellent stakeholder management, liaison and communication skills.
  • Effective and adaptable communication skills (both orally and in writing) for all levels of the business, with an ability to explain complex issues clearly and succinctly.
  • Confidence in working autonomously whilst also contributing to a collaborative team environment.
  • A self-aware, self-confident individual who has well developed listening skills and a strong ability to provide pragmatic proactive advice.
  • Very high personal integrity and ethical standards.
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills with the initiative and ability to proactively plan and prioritise own work.
  • Excellent verbal reasoning skills.
  • Ability to grasp the key commercial drivers, risks and benefits in the energy supply sector.
  • A positive, solution-based approach, driven to suggest more than one way to achieve the same desired outcome.
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • Ability to work effectively and calmly under pressure, prioritise workload and meet deadlines.
  • Committed to excellence and growth for team and business.

THINK YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES?

Contact us at careers@brytenergy.co.uk.