Senior Legal Counsel

Requisition ID: 37709- Location: COURBEVOIE, FR, 92400**Senior Legal Counsel**: **About US**: 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 areas of expertise: - 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. **Context**: The **GEMS Legal & Regulation** department (85+ lawyers worldwide) is composed of 1) several client focused teams with lawyers embedded into different parts of the business based on line of business or geography and 2) a functional central legal team covering several legal functional areas which are transversal throughout GEMS (the **Transversal Team**).** **The Transversal Team (15+ lawyers in Paris and Brussels) is looking for a Senior regulation and market conduct lawyer to accompany GEMS’s activities in the day-to-day energy optimization and trading operations in compliance with the applicable regulatory framework. The position is a great opportunity to work hand-in-hand with operational teams and be associated with a range of activities (incl. optimization of the asset portfolio and wholesale energy markets re physical and financial products, both short-term and long-term). **Role**: You will: - Provide regulatory guidance to the business on regulations impacting GEMS’s activities (energy and trading) via comprehensive legal, regulatory and market conduct analyses that identify risks, issues and mitigating measures; - Develop strategies, internal policies and solutions to facilitate market activities/ business development/ regulatory compliance, and develop - together with other support functions and operational teams - best practices in relation to market conduct topics and wholesale energy market regulations; - Maintain a deep understanding of market conduct, wholesale and financial market regulations and the regulatory activities of regional and national regulators impacting the GEMS activities, incl. training operational teams on regulations impacting GEMS activities; - Lead, coordinate and advise on investigations (both internal and external) and regulatory inquiries in relation to energy market conduct topics in respect of GEMS activities such as from energy and financial regulators, market exchanges, and transport system operators; - Contribute to GEMS’ public affairs position and lobbying strategy towards public authorities and regulators to build favorable market design in respect of market conduct issues and energy market regulation topics, incl. coordinating GEMS’s contribution to national and European consultation papers on relevant market conduct and energy market regulation topics; - Further GEMS’ interest by attending and participating in trade associations committees (e.g. EFET, EURELECTRIC, EUROGAS) and liaise with relevant competent regional and national stakeholders; and Contribute to other Transversal topics**Hard skills**: You meet all (or most of) the following criteria: - Qualified lawyer in France or Belgium; - Prior experience in the energy sector; - Prior experience in regulatory topics and/or energy law and/or public law and/or competition law with top-tier law firm, regulatory authority or leading commodities firm in the EU is preferred. Experience with MAR and REMIT is a plus; - Prior experience in litigation/investigations is a plus; - Very strong legal reasoning skills; - Excellent presentation, analytical and drafting skills; - Ability to understand in details complex products and how the business functions from a legal and economical point of view; - Effective manager of one’s time and external resources; - Ability to work closely with internal stakeholders; - Exercise sound professional judgment in iden