Legal Counsel

We are looking for a motivated individual to join as Legal Counsel with a broad range of responsibilities. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience of/an interest in employment and commercial law, but these aren’t essential and your workload won’t be restricted to those areas. This is a diverse role, working across the Green Britain Group. Your responsibilities will vary depending on your experience but may include:

Employment

• Working closely with our People team on non-contentious and contentious employment matters
• Assisting on Employment Tribunal processes and instructing and managing employment solicitors/counsel
• Supporting Ecotricity’s inhouse employment law and practice.

   

  Commercial

• Reviewing customer and supplier T&Cs and related documents, advising business teams on risk and making changes to protect the Group’s interests
• Drafting and negotiating a wide range of contracts including procurement,endorsement and advertising, football sponsorship and player contracts, consultancy and green energy infrastructure management agreements, and media engagement deals
• Helping to safeguard our intellectual property rights
• Some corporate and M&A support work

   

  Dispute resolution

• Identifying, investigating and resolving complex queries and disputes
• Drafting and responding to letters of claim
• Working alongside external counsel
• Assisting our debt recovery processes

You are an efficient self-starter with an interest in a wide variety of legal work and the ability to adapt in an environment where no two days are the same. You are happy picking up queries and matters outside of your immediate comfort zone, and you pay attention to detail whilst keeping commercials in mind.

Skill Set Required

• This role will suit a candidate with 1-3 years’ post-qualification experience, however, we welcome applications from appropriately experienced legal executives or paralegals.
• Excellent communication and time management skills.
• Accuracy, tenacity, diplomacy & integrity.

What's in it for you...

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Volunteering Day
• Hybrid Working
• Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car-pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to utilise our people in the best possible way at all times and helps our colleagues to make the best contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's overall greenest energy company- it’s more than just green energy – the breadth and depth of our work on green issues is unmatched. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too – we have built windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.