Patent Counsel managing patent portfolios for Orion Corporation's expanding pharmaceuticals pipeline. Collaborating with inventors and advising on patent strategy and risk mitigation.
About the role
- Head of Legal, Risk & Compliance at Zenergi leading legal, risk, and compliance strategies. Ensuring energy broking activities align with regulations and company objectives.
Responsibilities
- Act as the company’s senior legal advisor, providing pragmatic and commercially focused advice to the Board and Executive Team.
- Ensure the company operates within its constitutional and statutory framework, maintaining full compliance with company law and governance standards.
- Manage company secretarial responsibilities, including Companies House filings, board documentation, and shareholder communications.
- Support directors in understanding and fulfilling their statutory duties.
- Provide legal support to HR on employment law issues, including employment contracts, consultancy agreements and internal policies.
- Advise on corporate structure, shareholder agreements, and subsidiary management.
- Develop and oversee the company’s contract management framework, including drafting, negotiation, approval, and maintenance of key agreements.
- Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts.
- Maintain and update standard templates and terms to support commercial efficiency and risk control.
- Advise on contract strategy, risk allocation, limitation of liability, indemnities, warranties & termination rights.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations governing energy broking and consultancy activities.
- Oversee the compliance framework, policies, and procedures to ensure regulatory obligations are met.
- Liaise with regulators, auditors, and accreditation bodies as the company’s primary point of contact for compliance matters.
- Own customer onboarding and compliance process from a governance & risk perspective.
- Develop and maintain data protection policies, data processing registers & breach management procedures.
- Manage all legal disputes, client claims, or regulatory investigations efficiently and with a commercial lens.
- Develop and deliver targeted training on legal, contractual, and compliance topics including anti-bribery, data protection, and conduct in regulated markets.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years working in a comparable role
- Must be comfortable delivering through a virtual team
- Able to hold the relevant business owners and areas accountable to deliver their responsibilities
- Legal or compliance background
- Internal and external auditing
- Understanding of general legislation including GDPR, financial, H&S
- Policy writing
- Experience of working in the Energy Industry or a business with similar legislative demand (desirable)
- Experience of the Construction Industry (desirable)
- Experience of maintaining ISO certified management systems (desirable)
- Experience of FRS legislation (desirable)
- Legal or Compliance related qualification (desirable)
- NEBOSH / IOSH (desirable)
- ISO Lead Auditor / Internal Auditor (desirable)
- CQI or IRCA certificate in Quality Management (desirable)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent contract, report and policy writing skills
- Authority at all levels of the organisation
Benefits
- 25 days paid holiday
- Pension scheme current minimum contributions are 4% Employer 5% Employee
- Perkbox
- Birthday day off
- Salary sacrifice electric car scheme.
- Regular Personal Development Plan (PDP) meetings with your line manager and supported CPD opportunities.
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