Senior Legal Advisor, OVO
12 Month Fixed-Term Contract
£60-90k
You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%.
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Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Be an early applicant
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£60-90k
You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%.
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To lower carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping our customers reduce theirs at the same time - we call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- Top 3 qualities for this role: Able to balance process with agility, Be proactive, True business partner
- 4-8 years’ PQE (although aptitude and skills will be given significantly greater weight than PQE)
- Training in a well-regarded firm or in-house team
- Extensive experience in a busy in-house team working with a high degree of autonomy and responsibility
- Knowledge of the consumer regulatory environment and appreciation of consumer protection legislation as well as the CAP/BCAP Codes for advertising
- Strong experience of drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, with direct contact with business colleagues / clients
- Are a true team player who can also work comfortably autonomously and manage own workload
- Are highly responsive, commercial & proactive - we build bridges as well as fight fires
- Are highly organised, a quick learner and able to balance processes with agility
What the job involves
- Reporting to the legal director, you will work directly with commercial and product teams to advise on commercial and customer-facing legal matters
- Advising on launching compelling digital products to our customers, including new products and offerings, promotions, competitions, special offers
- Providing advice on data protection consents, data flows and customer journeys
- Reviewing advertising copy, brand messaging, and promotional materials for regulatory compliance and data protection issues in marketing, and liaising with marketing teams and regulatory bodies to advise on legal risk and strategic initiatives
- Business partnering on a wide range of contracts including licensing, sponsorship, co-branding, and other complex contractual relationships which bring together technology products, software platforms, energy services and partnerships
- Build solid relationships with and coach colleagues across the business
- Provide solutions-focused legal advice across all advertising and communications
- Review and sign-off promotional materials in line with relevant legislation, guidance and the Advertising Codes
- Support business partners by identifying and explaining any legal risks and supporting them to navigate such risks to enable the development of compelling advertising campaigns
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. It's analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, it's offering is organised into four different energy plans, that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
Kate Cottrell, Smart Meter Engineer
Our mission
Supporting our customers on the journey to zero carbon by delivering exceptional customer service and promoting energy efficiency.Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$268.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$268.9m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $579.4m
Company benefits
- On-target bonus up to 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal
- Flex Pay: 9% on top of your salary - 4% of this is auto enrolled into your pension, and the remaining 5% is yours to do what you like with. You can use this to buy from our extensive range of flexible benefits, including our green benefits which we've put at the heart of our offering, add to your pension or even take it as cash
- 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
- For your health: With benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and more
- For your wellbeing: With gym membership, travel insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, dental insurance, and more
- For your lifestyle: With extra holiday buying, discount dining, home & tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donations
- For your home: Get up to £400 towards any OVO Energy plan, plus great discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers
- For your commute: Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
- For your belonging: To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you
Leadership
David Buttress
(CEO)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to at least 30% Women in Tech at OVO by 2026
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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