Would you like to take part in building a global legal team that is essential for achieving our commercial ambitions? Do you thrive in a complex and fast-paced environment where your legal advice and competencies can enable global expansion and contribute to the renewable energy transition? If this sounds appealing to you, we have the perfect position for you as our Legal Counsel!

In the role as Legal Counsel, you will work with a variety of legal matters, ranging from drafting both employment and energy commodity contracts to playing a key role as an advisor within the team and to our business on legal risk management practices.

This role allows you to dive into the energy trading industry while also taking an active part informing and optimizing the processes and projects of the Legal team for the benefit of our business. You will be responsible for assisting our People & Culture (P&C) department in all employment law matters, while also being introduced to other areas of our business and their individual legal advice needs.

Your journey as a Legal Counsel

Our newly established Legal & Market Access team consists of 3 awesome colleagues, working across both legal and market access related matters (two Legal Counsels and one Market Access Specialist) and we are currently looking forward to expanding further.

You will work closely with two colleagues who are strong generalists within the legal sphere of energy trading. The team takes great pride in delivering pragmatic legal advice to the business with a huge focus on legal quality and business interests.

We will make sure you get properly introduced to the team, our organization, and our business. Therefore, the team will ensure you get thoroughly onboarded into your role, tasks, and responsibility areas to ensure that you feel well-equipped to manage your responsibilities with autonomy.

At the same time, you will be provided with a high degree of flexibility to manage a great work-life-balance with flexible working hours that fit into your private life.

Responsibilities 

• Draft employment contracts and advise the business on employment law, in close collaboration with our P&C department

• Draft and negotiate standard or bespoke international energy commodity contracts

• Advise the business on legal risk management and ongoing legislative changes

• Collaborate both within the team and across departments to support the establishment of sound legal risk management practices in InCommodities

• Take an active part in supporting the development of our Legal & Market Access team, through active participation in optimizing our legal service provision processes and projects

Qualifications – we imagine that you: 

• Have a master's degree in Law (cand.jur) or Business Law (cand.merc.jur.)

• Preferably have prior experience from a law firm or an in-house legal position, specifically within employment law, energy law and contract law (contract drafting and negotiation)

• Have or are willing to obtain a thorough commercial understanding of the company’s business operations through a positive can-do attitude

• Are fluent in English, both oral and written, and any additional languages are an advantage

Personal skills – we expect that you:

• Are capable of navigating in a high degree of complexity that includes both internal and external stakeholders and the national, EU and international legal orders

• Are disciplined, self-driven and able to work independently under pressure within tight deadlines

• Are highly structured and organized with an ability to prioritize and work efficiently

• Have attention to detail and take pride in getting the job done no matter the size of the task

• Have strong communication skills and feel confident in sharing your opinion and knowledge

• Are a team player who will do what is best for the team and InCommodities

What you can expect from us:

• A steep learning curve

• A lot of responsibility and support

• Exceptional colleagues who are bold, honest, ambitious, and the smartest in their field

• A unique company culture where we live up to our values: Honesty, Transparency, and Rethink and where you don't have to abide by a dress code or a strict hierarchy, so you won't be frustrated with too many rules, policies, or bureaucratic processes

• A bunch of great events - both in the teams and in the entire organization

• The opportunity to develop both professionally and personally