(Senior) Legal Counsel (mfd)
Job Summary
Your responsibilities
- Advise international teams management and leadership on a broad range of day-to-day legal matters
- Draft review negotiate and further develop commercial agreements and legal documents including site lease and usage agreements supplier and service contracts cooperation and partnership agreements financing-related agreements and claim matters
- Analyze complex legal and regulatory issues related to e-mobility and charging infrastructure and develop pragmatic business solutions working closely with technical teams to identify legal risks early
- Advise on regulatory requirements in e-mobility energy infrastructure and technology including energy law metrology and calibration law the German Energy Industry Act and Federal Network Agency requirements
- Lead negotiations with business partners authorities landowners and other external stakeholders and support strategic partnerships and innovative cooperation models
- Enforce the companys rights in disputes and contractual breaches support court proceedings and develop efficient conflict resolution strategies
- Support permitting and implementation matters related to the construction and operation of charging infrastructure including building and environmental permits.
- Represent the company vis-à-vis authorities institutions courts professional bodies and e-mobility industry associations contribute to industry standards and prepare legal statements and position papers
- Drive legal processes standardization automation and efficiency improvements
- Coordinating external law firms and legal support across multiple jurisdictions
- Support governance compliance risk management and data privacy topics including GDPR-related matters where relevant
- Ensuring close stakeholder management across our headquarters and international markets
- Fully qualified lawyer (Second German State Examination or equivalent legal qualification)
- Prior admission as Rechtsanwältin / Rechtsanwalt or in-house lawyer (Syndikusrechtsanwältin / Syndikusrechtsanwalt) and eligible for admission as in-house lawyer pursuant to 46 BRAO
- At least 3 years of professional experience as in-house legal counsel or in a law firm advising corporate clients
- Strong expertise in commercial contracts commercial law corporate law real estate law or related fields; additional experience in governance risk management compliance and/or data protection is an advantage
- Experience in e-mobility energy infrastructure or technology is a strong advantage.
- Strong process-oriented mindset with the ability to structure and optimize legal workflows
- Experience with or strong interest in Legal Tech process automation (e.g. RPA) and AI. Motivation to actively use these tools to make legal work more efficient and effective
- Pragmatic business-oriented and solution-focused approach to legal advice
- Strong analytical skills paired with a hands-on mentality and entrepreneurial thinking
- Enjoy working both collaboratively and independently
- Willingness to take responsibility actively drive topics forward and continuously develop your own area of responsibility
- Fluency in both German and English is mandatory
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills with the confidence to engage with senior stakeholders
- People take centre stage: Become part of a dynamic ambitious and agile team that develops solutions for the eMobility market and be part of our EDRI events
- With us you get the best of both worlds - 100% start-up with the support of a large company
- The freedom you need: We offer you hybrid working with flexible working hours
- Workation: Enjoy the flexibility to work temporarily from abroad within the EU
- You will receive a competitive salary
- A company pension scheme is of course also one of the benefits with us
- Sustainable learning opportunities: We support you with a training budget of 5000 euros per year
- You get everything you need to get started: onboarding with welcome gifts and all the hardware you need
Seize the opportunity to become part of our Drive Infrastructure team and not only create prospects for the future of but also for your own.
We look forward to getting to know you!
Laura
Junior Recruiter
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Drive Infrastructure (EDRI) is a pan-European market leading charge point operator owned by the group. EDRI builds owns and operates public charging infrastructure for all types of electric vehicles. The company purpose is to build a sustainable world by providing charging for everyone everywhere. The team currently employs more than 200 people and operates more than 9.000 public charging points across 11 European countries: Austria Czech Republic Denmark Germany Hungary Italy Netherlands Poland Romania Sweden and the United Kingdom. Together with location partners EDRI will expand its network by installing 1000 additional high power charging points per year.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
E.ON Drive Infrastructure (EDRI) is a pan-European market leading charge point operator owned by the E.ON group. EDRI builds, owns, and operates public charging infrastructure for all types of electric vehicles. The company purpose is to build a sustainable world, by providing chargin ... View more