Legal Director (f/m/d) (Purton Stoke)

RWE Renewables Europe & Australia GmbH

To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

Your Tasks:

• As the Legal Director you will be the key contact for legal matters across OPEA including our small-medium scale partnering & transactions business.
• Act as a steering member of the OPEA Senior Management Team.
• Manage high and low performance to ensure the efficiency and quality of the team in a high performance environment.
• Act like an entrepreneur, i.e. responsibly, strategically and economically, in processes that affect the legal area itself, but also OPEA processes.
• Acting as a Senior Legal Counsel to the OPEA Board and business and coordinating the legal support of the business by your teams.
• Covering Board Office, Corporate & Partnering Law topics.
• Covering Regulatory and Real Estate law.
• Drafting and reviewing agreements, tenders, and other commercial documents.
• Offering legal counsel on regulatory compliance, licensing, and the development of new projects.
• Providing (standard) legal documents and contracts and negotiating contracts.
• Being responsible for legal support for claim management and Dispute Resolution.
• Managing external legal advisors; developing and applying efficient make-or-buy governance and cost control.
• Managing all legal processes, including reporting, related to the areas of responsibility in a smooth and efficient way.
• Managing our OPEA small-medium partnering and transactions business and for bigger transactions coordinating with RWE group M&A function.
• Hosting of OPEA-Compliance function.
• Close and trustful cooperation and alignment with other RWE stakeholders, such as the Group General Counsel, the RWE Chief Compliance Officer and other RWE Heads of Legal.

Your Profile:

• University degree in law with distinction.
• Several years of relevant working experience, ideally with a consulting background.
• Solid Corporate and Partnering Law experience, experience in Renewables and in project structuring.
• Strong leadership experience as well as organizational, analytical and standardization skills.
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks and of regulatory decision making procedures.
• Understanding of business model, regulatory and technical developments as well as potential implications.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel internationally on a regular basis.
• Good communications skills fluent in English (speaking and writing), German language skills are an advantage.

Your Leadership Skills:

• Team Leadership: Ability to lead, inspire, manage and delegate effectively.
• People Development: Ability to develop themselves and their people to their full potential.
• Performance Orientation: Self-motivated to drive the business, increase performance and deliver results.
• Strategic thinking: Push the boundaries to grow the business.
• Continuous Improvement: Constantly optimizing the business.
• Integration Management: Ability to lead teams through change processes.
• Working Together: Ability to collaborate globally in cross functional teams.
• Communication skills: Ability to effectively communicate internally & externally.
• Open mindset: Self-reflective personality, able to learn and act on feedback.
• Hands-on mentality: Actively involving him-/herself, pragmatic and fact focused attitude.

Apply with just a few clicks: ad code 90093, application period: 06/06/2025.

Any questions? Contact HR: Richard Bateson, richard.bateson@rwe.com

We look forward to meeting you. We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, age, sexual orientation, and identity.

In the segments of onshore wind and solar, RWE Renewables Europe & Australia is among the largest electricity producers in Europe and has become a key player in the field of renewables. With its comprehensive 'Growing Green' investment and growth strategy, RWE is expanding green generation capacity – to more than 65 gigawatts by 2030. To this end, RWE is investing €55 billion between 2024 and 2030.

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