Counsel, Commercial Legal

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Job Summary:

Provides commercial legal support to NRG Energy, Inc.'s ("NRG") businesses providing retail energy and gas to commercial and industrial (C&I) businesses. This individual will be a team oriented and commercially focused attorney that will be a critical part of the commercial services legal team supporting the C&I business. The attorney will be capable of collaborating frequently with team members, originators, sales personnel, and other stakeholders within the organization, including, maintaining a value-added relationship with commercial, credit, risk, and compliance teams. Day-to-day responsibilities include advising leadership and other stakeholders on legal risks, strategies, and structures for a variety of commercial matters relating to NRG's C&I business. In addition, responsibilities will include reviewing and negotiating large commercial supply agreements, broker agreements and REC agreements. This individual will ideally be highly versatile, self-motivated, and organized individual capable of exercising sound legal and business judgement under time sensitive and fast paced conditions, to deliver a high quality and well-conceived work product that furthers the organization's business objectives.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Structure, draft, negotiate and facilitate commercial and industrial customer gas and electricity supply contracts, NASEBs, and other legal documents related to NRG's C&I business.
• Provide support and counsel to all functional teams within NRG's C&I business.
• Maintain knowledge of the laws and regulations governing NRG's C&I business.
• Advise internal clients, including NRG's senior leaders, on complex business issues, compliance or risk assessment and work to develop business solutions to eliminate corporate risks.
• Proven track record of exercising sound business and legal judgment, with appropriate attention to detail, with the ability to multi-task effectively in a fast-paced and high-volume environment
• Ability to work well both independently and in a team environment.
• Great leadership skills and strong desire to help grow and manage the team's paralegals.
• Efficiently work with outside counsel as necessary within budget and/or timing constraints.

Working Conditions:

• Preferred location is Pittsburg, PA; Princeton, NJ or Houston, TX
• Limited hybrid work schedule; M-Th in office/Friday WFH
• Some travel may be required

Minimum Requirements:

• JD degree from an ABA accredited law school
• Licensed to practice law in PA, NJ, TX (or another state)
• A minimum of five (5) years of combined successful legal experience in a law firm or sophisticated corporate legal department

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the energy supply industry
• Proven track record of working in a fast-paced environment with a high-volume workload
• Excellent negotiation, risk assessment and problem-solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, particularly to assist a non-legal audience in understanding complex legal and regulatory requirements
• Clear understanding and adherence to ethical principles, company values, code of conduct and policies

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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