Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel

__vacancyopjusttionswidget.opt-Type of Employment__ Full-time

__vacancyopjusttionswidget.opt-Brands__ Vattenfall

__vacancyopjusttionswidget.opt-Category__ Legal & Compliance

__vacancyopjusttionswidget.opt-Location __ Bristol

__vacancyopjusttionswidget.opt-Job Type__ Professional

__vacancyopjusttionswidget.opt-Unit__ Heat

__vacancyopjusttionswidget.opt-Employment Type__ Permanent

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Are you a senior lawyer looking to be part of a growing low carbon heat business and contribute to fossil free living? If so, this is for you.

We offer an exciting opportunity for a senior legal counsel to take a leading role in paving the way for Vattenfall and its customers and partners towards a fossil free future. We are looking for a senior legal counsel to support our UK Heat business, part of the Vattenfall organisation.

Vattenfall is one of Europes largest electricity generators and producers of heat and operates in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. We exist to help our customers and partners power their lives in ever climate smarter ways and aim to deliver fossil free living within one generation.

Vattenfall Heat UK aims to provide low carbon heat and energy services across the UK. We are actively deploying heat networks in London, Edinburgh and Bristol whilst pursuing a number of other strategic opportunities with local authorities, private developers and waste heat partnerships. Given the growth in this business, we have a need for a Senior Legal Counsel in our UK Legal team to work closely with this business.

Your responsibilities as Senior Legal Counsel

As the demand for legal expertise in our Heat business continues to grow, we are looking to recruit a Senior Legal Counsel in our Legal team in the UK. You will be focussed on all legal and contractual matters for the UK Heat business, reporting to the Director of Legal, UK. You will be working closely with the two other Senior Legal Counsels who support this part of the business, together with the Managing Director and other business Directors, Sales, Delivery, and Project Managers focussing on both upstream and downstream contracts and associated legal matters.

You will be expected to be able to “hit the ground running” on a wide variety of legal matters. This includes having an excellent working knowledge of negotiating commercial contracts, including contracts of a public nature, whilst working on the delivery, supply, construction and operational contracts for large network schemes comprising heating, cooling and other innovative energy solutions. You will need to be able to structure new relationships contractually, understand the interaction with various public/private corporate structures and advise on both organic and inorganic growth. You will also need to understand “backing risk” between upstream and downstream contracts and be comfortable negotiating connection and supply arrangements.

A corporate, commercial and/or construction background (in either legal or a previous career) would be an advantage in applying for this role, dealing with the entirety of contractual relationships in a “cradle to grave” approach. Experience in negotiating necessary land rights would be useful or if not, a willingness to upskill in this area. The Heat team handles a range of contracts of varying value and type and therefore an ability to demonstrate a wide range of legal and commercial skills will be beneficial.