Do you want to work in a leading Nordic energy trading company and use your legal skills within energy law? Do you thrive in an international environment and want to contribute to the green transition? Then you could be our Senior Legal Counsel. 

Energi Danmark is a leading energy trading company. We accelerate the energy transition by bridging and servicing producers of renewable energy and large B2B consumers. We are active within physical and financial energy trading, portfolio management, and associated trading in derivative financial instruments. We are an international organization headquartered in Aarhus with 250 employees distributed at our offices in Aarhus, Søborg, Malmö, Oslo, and Helsinki. We offer a modern workplace with challenge and accountability. 

We are currently strengthening our Legal & Compliance team with a Senior Legal Counsel. The team consist of 7 skilled specialists including the VP Legal & Compliance and two Compliance Officers. Legal & Compliance’s main area of responsibility is to identify and mitigate all legal and compliance risks within the Energi Danmark group.

YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITY

Your main task will be to use your skills within energy law in relation to energy trading and services contracts and to ensure access to new markets, new products, and trading platforms as well as monitor regulatory development. 

You will quickly gain independent case responsibility combined with the necessary sparring. Your closest sparring partner will be the VP, Legal & Compliance, and you will be closely linked to the business teams of Energi Danmark as well as the support functions in the group. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Drafting and negotiating various types of energy contracts (typically customized agreements), especially PPA’s, but also GSA’s, wholesale agreements, cooperation agreements, sales agreements, certificate trading agreements, agreements related to financial products, etc. 
• Assisting and advising on standardized agreements such as EFET (Former European Federation of Energy Traders, now Energy Traders Europe) agreements and similar sector standards. 
• Provision of legal advice and assistance in connection with the structuring and implementation of new trading strategies and energy products.
• Ensuring compliance with legislation and other regulatory requirements specifically related to energy agreements together with the Compliance team.
• Assisting or leading strategic legal projects in the group.
• Supporting the business in various day-to-day legal matters on a range of other legal subjects.

YOUR PROFILE

Education: You are a qualified lawyer (Master of Laws, cand.jur., cand.merc.jur. or equivalent) with a strong academic legal background combined with min. at least 5 years of practical experience within relevant legal areas.

Industry: Preferably, you have practical experience from a commercial environment such as a law firm, trading company and/or a larger private company ideally within the energy or related industry.

Legal areas: You have strong competencies within commercial law and preferably energy law, such as energy- and trading agreements.  

Commercial mindset: Strong commercial mindset enabling you to balance legal requirements with the commercial drivers and goal of the business. 

Language skills: You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in one of the Nordic and English languages, and substantial experience with legal English in relation to drafting and negotiating. 

PERSONAL CAPABILITIES

Proactive: You are proactive with a natural inclination to take initiative and drive a process, and you can work individually as well as part of a team.

Solution-oriented and ambitious: You are professionally ambitious and set high standards in everything you do. You are solution-oriented and can focus on delivering the best possible legal and commercial result with the given constraints and deadlines in mind.

Integrity and openess: You have a high level of integrity and openness that can facilitate a constructive work environment where trust, respect and mutual consideration is prioritized.  

Personal drive: You have a hands-on and can-do approach; a good personal drive and you are able to stand by your opinions and speak up when necessary.

WHAT WE OFFER

As an employee at Energi Danmark, you will become part of an international and ambitious energy trading group with competent and dedicated colleagues. 

Energi Danmark offers you an exciting and challenging job in an international environment with high expectations and good professional and personal development opportunities. You will have a high degree of autonomy and the opportunity to shape the content of your own position. 

Energi Danmark considers its employees as the most important resource and focuses on employee wellbeing both in and outside the workplace. Energi Danmark prioritizes good working conditions and attractive employee benefits, e.g. by offering a competitive compensation package and flexible working hours where your work-life balance is a priority. 

Further, Energi Danmark works to create an attractive and pleasant work atmosphere, e.g. by hosting social events that bring different parts of the employees together.

WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU 

If you have any questions regarding the position, feel free to contact Mads Bang-Christensen, VP Legal & Compliance at +45 2062 0586. 

Please send a short resume and application stating: 
1) your motivation, 
2) key examples of competences and experience 
3) your personal profile – as soon as possible and no later than May 31st, 2024.

We invite interviews on an ongoing basis and reserve the right to take down the ad when we have found the right candidate.

Location: Legal & Compliance is based in Aarhus, however Energi Danmark can offer you the possibility of working partly remotely or from one of the group’s other offices in the Nordics (including Søborg near Copenhagen in Denmark). You should expect to travel to Aarhus regularly if you are based in one of the other offices in the Nordics.

Start date: As soon as possible