Legal & Contracts Advisor - Sweden

Sungrow Sweden • Stockholm • Legal

Who we are

We are a green tech company unlike any other green tech company. We are a team of lateral thinkers, young professionals, and creative minds. We are fighting every day to make our mission happen – Clean Power For All! With ~400GW (!) of clean power presently installed worldwide, we are more than ready to sate the worlds hunger for clean energy! Welcome at Sungrow Sungrow is the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables. We want to give fresh impulses, inspire, and contribute to a sustainable development of our planet, that’s why we constantly improve our portfolio. From floating solar plants to large-scale utility projects and to small residential products we always offer the best and most suitable solution. At Sungrow we hold more than 1500 patents – no wonder as we employ the biggest research and development team of the whole industry. 40 % of all Sungrow workforce is continuously investigating on how to further improve the existing portfolio. Want to know more? Check out our Job offers and let`s dive right in together!

Stockholm

from today

Your duties

As a Legal & Contracts Advisor, you will work as a member of the Legal and Contracts Department and you will be responsible for negotiating, drafting and overseeing sales contracts relating to Sungrow’s projects in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. In addition, you will be responsible for all legal matters arising in the aforementioned countries including legal counselling, legal advice, claims, corporate matters etc.

In detail, you will, amongst others:

Review, draft and negotiate sales agreements, contracts and other legal documents and support sales and other teams with the contracting strategy.
Provide clarification on legal language or specifications to stakeholders in the organization and deliver training when required.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge on legal reforms and developments in case law; maintain the company’s legal database; research and evaluate current and new regulations and legislations related to the business.
Give accurate and timely counsel to management in a variety of legal topics, including contracts, claims, dispute, regulations etc, and conduct the necessary legal research.
Collaborate with management to prepare efficient defence strategies for the company.
Work closely with the Compliance Officer to specify internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance.
Conduct legal review of the company’s processes and policies in different fields.
Communicate and negotiate with external parties (regulators, external counsel, public authorities, courts of law, etc.)
Based in Stockholm; hybrid work possible.

Your profile

All right, all right, so I hope you are now aware of what is up for you, what background should you have in order to feel comfortable with this role?

Requirements and skills

Qualified in Swedish law
Excellent knowledge and understanding of corporate and business law and procedures.
Prior work experience as an in-house lawyer or in or for the energy sector.
Demonstrated ability to create legal defensive or proactive strategies.
High degree of professional ethics and integrity
Sound judgement and ability to analyse situations and information.
Outstanding written and spoken communication skills in Swedish and English (at least C1); ideally, in Danish, Norwegian and/or Finnish as plus.
Experience in contracts review, negotiation and management. Preferably energy contracts, FIDIC and NEC contracts.

Our offer

This decade might be overshadowed by Covid19, but sooner or later we will beat and overcome that son of a germ, am I right?
But the true topic for this decade lies in energy！
We are more than happy to state that not only We are leading this discourse, we also offer the fitting solutions for it. We have the strongest PV-Inverter R&D there is and became the world`s biggest Inverter Manufacturer, which we are extremely proud of! And now, for this decade, we are increasing our game, and You, You might become part of it! Besides that, many things await You:

Mobility package: in case you want a Job-Rad, we got you covered (E-bikes! we need more E-bikes! fueled by solar-power!)
Bonus payments: we agree on Smart KPIs with You, an You receive a nice Bonus at the end of the year, isn`t that something!?
A multinational team awaits You with lots of European and transeuropean exchange!
Possibility for technical and commercial knowledge enhancement in regard to string inverters, central inverters, inverter stations including transformer and switch gear and storage solutions
Technical and commercial training in our headquarter in Germany and even visits to the big R&D facility in China!

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