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Alliander

Operates and maintains high-reliability energy networks

Legal Affairs Manager - Cluster Liander

Legal Counsel & Legal SupportConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeArnhem, NetherlandsIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A completed university-level degree in Dutch law is required.
  • At least 10 years of relevant work experience in a legal role, including some experience as a senior lawyer.
  • Strategic thinking and risk management: understand internal and external developments, navigate uncertainty and ambiguity, and identify dependencies and vulnerabilities affecting organizational goals.
  • Organizational sensitivity: understand formal and informal relationships, interests, and organizational dynamics and adapt actions to the context.
  • People management: effectively lead, develop, and motivate highly educated professionals while creating an inspiring and safe environment.
  • Stakeholder management: bring together different perspectives and interests within the team and across a complex senior stakeholder group.
  • Results orientation: maintain progress and service quality, hold others accountable for agreements, and intervene when results, deadlines, or impact are at risk.
  • Decision-making: make well-founded decisions in a political-administrative context, use facts and data, and weigh risks and consequences when information is incomplete or conflicting.
  • Customer focus: understand and act on the impact of the organization’s work on its customers.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute, with the Director of Legal Affairs, to the direction, positioning, and continued professionalization of the Legal Affairs department as a member of its management team.
  • Hierarchically lead 10 lawyers and legal staff in the Liander cluster, build a cohesive team, and promote collaboration and knowledge-sharing.
  • Ensure the quality of legal advice within the Liander cluster by providing direction and creating support and clarity.
  • Maintain an individual legal advisory practice and independently handle legal matters, providing requested and proactive legal, strategic, and policy advice to the Executive Board and senior management.
  • Identify risks in non-standard and complex matters, including those involving significant financial or reputational risks.
  • Set priorities, allocate available team capacity, and ensure effective deployment aligned with Liander’s risks and objectives.
  • Identify, assess, and propose policy changes in consultation with policy owners where needed from a legal perspective, and build support among executive and senior management.
  • Advise and guide legal proceedings with external parties, directing external advisers as needed to handle or resolve proceedings effectively and cost-efficiently.
  • Prepare model contracts, guidelines, manuals, and Q&As as needed to ensure correct application of laws and regulations and support efficient work.
  • Safeguard the legal quality and consistency of documentation and advice within the cluster.
  • Guide negotiations when needed.

Desired Qualifications

  • Leadership experience is preferred.
  • Expertise in energy law and/or experience working in a regulated environment is preferred.

About the Company

Alliander

Operates and maintains high-reliability energy networks

Alliander distributes gas and electricity to households and businesses across a large part of the Netherlands, serving about 3.3 million customers via its Liander and Liandon units. It designs, builds, maintains, and operates high-reliability energy networks and makes energy flows visible to connect suppliers with customers and support switching to sustainable energy. The company differentiates itself by maintaining open, accessible infrastructure that accommodates multiple energy providers and by collaborating with provinces, municipalities, and other clients to plan future-ready networks. Its goal is to provide reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy for everyone, with open access to energy infrastructure and better insight into energy use.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$3.1B
Headquarters
Arnhem, Netherlands
Founded
2009

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