About US (GEMS):

ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS) provides energy supply solutions and risk management services to support its clients through their decarbonization journey, while optimizing ENGIE’s assets and contributing to value creation.

ENGIE is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services with a leading energy management business, piloted by its entity "Global Energy Management & Sales" who built its savoir-faire managing the Group’s large and diverse asset portfolio over 20+ years.

3,600 employees around the world develop our solutions, through +20 international business platforms. We cover the full energy mix: renewable and thermal power, natural gas & LNG, biomass, environmental products. Our experts provide tailor made solutions based on a wide range of savoir-faire in energy management with a strong focus on decarbonation and decentralization.

Our 190,000 clients span the entire value chain: producers, asset developers, financial players, utilities, distributors and industrials. Our global reach and strong local presence enable us to offer these diverse clients tailor-made services and respond to rapid changes in mature or emerging markets alike.

Our 4 expertises:

• Asset management

• Energy transition services

• Energy supply & global commodities

• Risk management & market access

At GEMS we encourage breakthrough results, team spirit, curiosity and innovation while preserving the right work/life balance for you.

More info on GEMS Hub (https://gems.engie.com) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/engie-global-energy-management-solutions).
 

Context:
 

As part of the GEMS Legal & Regulatory department, the Legal Manager would be responsible for the legal support to GEMS’s energy trading and giant customers activities in France and Belgium and be part of the direction committee of the global GEMS Legal & Regulatory Department.

The legal manager will report to the GEMS Head of Legal & Regulatory Affairs.

Role:

• Manage a legal team based in Paris and Brussels, providing direction while leveraging on their skills and give space for adequate empowerment.

• Actively participate to the direction committee of the global GEMS Legal & Regulatory Department.
• Act as a subject-matter expert on legal developments affecting physical and financial energy trading markets, coordinate the legal knowledge and contract management expertise in this respect and provide training on topical issues to GEMS colleagues.
• Work closely with GEMS Legal & Regulation colleagues globally and collaborate with other GEMS stakeholders and management, particularly the Trading, Credit and Compliance groups, on day-to-day activities and transactional related matters/issues.
• Draft, review and negotiate:  
  • Master Agreements (e.g., ISDA and EFET agreements, together with relevant annexes) for various energy commodities  and related derivatives (i.e., power, gas, emissions, CEE, carbon offsets)
  • Secured energy supply and credit facilities for retail electric providers
  • Other energy contracts (i.e., energy management agreements, hedging contracts, intra-group contracts, brokerage contracts, etc.)
  • Pre-transactional documents, e.g., confidentiality agreements, letters of intent, term sheets, etc.
  • Credit management documentation (e.g., credit support annexes, letters of credit and guaranties)
  • Ancillary agreements related to the GEMS’ team scope
• Structure complex hedge and other commodity transactions for affiliate and third-party renewable energy projects, battery energy storage systems (BESS), downstream energy consumers and retail electricity providers.
• Provide legal guidance in relation to event-driven issues such as events of default, covenant breaches, claims of force majeure, acceleration, and enforcement and reservation of rights while advising on the impact on the company’s financial position.
• exercise sound professional judgment in identifying issues that need reference to the management and/or relevant other legal teams, prepare legal risk memos for approval.
• Supervise external counsel (when appropriate) in managing complex transactions, regulatory inquiries and commercial litigation.
• Comply with and support the ethics, compliance and other applicable policies and procedures of ENGIE Group and GEMS and work cooperatively with the personnel charged with implementing and monitoring same.
• Responsible for reporting by the team.
• Support other members of the GEMS Legal & Regulation Team: including through internal functional reporting, by participating in GEMS Legal & Regulation Team committees and events, and by sharing knowledge and experience.
• Plan and organize legal work to meet individual, team and business line objectives while achieving quality and value.

  Hard skills:

• Prior energy industry experience focusing on wholesale energy markets.
• Experience with managing and coordinating people and subject matters.
• Strong skills in review and analysis, interpretation, drafting, negotiation and administration of commercial contracts.
• Ability to analyze complex business situations, taking into account business drivers, to develop risk mitigation recommendations in a commercially minded manner. 
• Able to clearly explain risks, advise on both commercial and associated legal consequences and exercise sound judgement on difficult issues.
• Ability to build and manage relationships and work in a fast-paced energy trading environment.
  
  Soft skills:​​​​​​​
• Proven ability to prioritize conflicting demands while paying attention to detail.
• Team player and effective manager of internal resources.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.

  Education and professional background:

• 10 years Post Qualified Legal Experience and first class educational qualifications.
• Experience in an multinational business context.
  
  Languages:​​​​​​​
• English and French fluency; knowledge of other languages is a plus.
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  If you meet these requirements, then you are the talent we are looking for. Do not waste time! 

  Apply by attaching your updated CV, regardless your gender.

   

  ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales is committed to create a gender-neutral environment that unlocks the potential of everyone and provides equal employment opportunities for all individuals. 

   

  All our positions are open to people with disabilities, please let your recruiter know if you need reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the recruitment process, they will be happy to assist you. 

  About ENGIE:

  Our group is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. Our purpose (“raison d’être”) is to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally-friendly solutions, reconciling economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet. We rely on our key businesses (gas, power, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to our customers. With our 96,000 employees, our customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress.