Legal Counsel

Commercial and trading

• Reviewing customer and supplier T&Cs and related documents and reporting your findings, making changes to protect the Group’s interests
• Drafting and reviewing a wide range of contracts including consultancy arrangements, contracts for products and services, and partnership/endorsement contracts, and negotiating these with counterparties
• Supporting the procurement of business-critical IT systems
• Advising our wholesale energy trading team on agreements for the purchase of renewable energy and our business sales team on energy sales and intermediary agreement

• Reviewing contracts through the project life cycle for sun parks, wind farms and battery storage systems – pre-works and FEED agreements, EPC, and operation and maintenance agreements, as well as power purchase agreements

• Identifying, investigating and resolving complex queries and disputes
• Drafting letters of claim
• Helping to compile evidence for court proceedings
• Assisting the debt recovery team with the recovery of debt, preparing claims and managing court proceedings
• Instructing and managing external counsel

Property

• Supporting property aspects of our portfolio of domestic rooftop PV installations
• Supporting the planning and development team with management of the group’s property portfolio, including our renewable assets and developments as well as the company estate
• Early advice on preparation, negotiation and registration of options and leases of renewable assets

Intellectual Property

• Overseeing the group’s intellectual property portfolio
• Registering trademarks and overseeing renewals
• Collating information for patent applications

Other

• Corporate administration
• Advising on legal and regulatory compliance matters
• Instructing and managing external counsel
• Researching legal matters and reporting your findings
• Developing a general understanding of customer metering and billing processes

The fast moving nature of the company's 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 use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment. 

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. 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 build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of - grass. 

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.