Legal Manager 🇩🇪

What do we do ? 🏠

Born in 2021 from the desire to make cities less polluted and quieter, Electra is helping to shift usage towards electric mobility by tackling the main barrier: charging.

Electra is constantly innovating to make electric vehicle charging easier, with a network of fast charging stations (20 minutes on average) and a maximally simplified user experience.

Based in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nantes, Brussels, Madrid, Zurich, Vienna, Munich, Milan and Amsterdam, Electra's teams aim to deploy a network of 15,000 fast charging points by 2030, proud to contribute to the energy transition in Europe.

In 4 years, we have:

• Deployed 450 stations and over 2000 fast-charging points.

• Secured thousands of stations to establish Electra as a leader in the European market.

• Opened several offices in France and Europe.

• Raised over €750 million in equity and debt financing from renowned investors and institutions.

• Joined the French Tech Next 40 and won the European Scale-up of the Year 2024 award.

• Assembled a team of over 220 talents… and this is just the beginning !

💼 Your Mission

As Legal Manager you will be part of our local team in German, contribute to our targets and will work closely with the Managing Director of Germany. The position mainly includes 2 main areas of responsibility. On the one hand, the legal requirements of the local society and on the other hand, the daily business, which predominates.

Since we operate both project and service business, the legal manager will design and negotiate a variety of different contracts, e.g. lease agreements, construction contracts, framework agreements, project acquisition agreements and others.

🦸‍♀️🦸 Your Responsibilities

• Development and regular adjustments of our standard agreement drafts, e.g. LoI, framework agreements, lease agreements, construction agreements, etc.

• Lead the legal agreement negotiation at our clients and partners in collaboration with the Business Development and Operations Team.

• Support legally the Business Development Team in (public) tenders.

• Coordinate legal tasks between Managing Director Germany and cooperate Legal in Paris.

• Support Managing Director with M&A, corporate law, insurance, labour law and compliance related tasks.

• Create a legal understanding in the whole German team and train Business Developers and Project Managers on legal agreement discussion.

💚 Desired Profile

Hard skills 🛠

• You have a degree in legal and minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a legal environment dealing with corporate and day by day business.

• You can prove success in building customer relationships and achieving your negotiation targets.

• You have ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks with precision and deadlines and to work in a matrix organisation.

• You have a good understanding of the electric vehicle recharging market and ideally already gained some experience in the industry.

• You already worked with companies in retail, hotel, real estate, construction and/or fleet.

Soft skills 🌟

• You are passionate and convinced by electric mobility,

• You are a pro-activity person and a fluid, clear and transparent communicator,

• You have a strong capacity for organisation, analysis and synthesis in a complex, fast-growing environment,

• You know how to propose solutions independently,

• You have team spirit and the willingness to help others,

• Fluent in German and good in English

⚡️ What Electra offers you

• An entrepreneurial journey.
• A motivated, driven and passionate team of 220+ professionals.
• A flexible, inclusive and international work environment.
• An attractive package (base salary + variable).
• A great professional challenge in a fast-growing scale-up.

🎙️ Recruitment Process

• Meeting with the Talent Acquisition Manager.
• Meeting with Paul, Country Manager Electra Germany.
• Meeting with Verena, Legal Manager Electra Austria.