Senior Contracts Advisor

About the role

Work directly on high-impact energy trading agreements while enjoying a flexible hybrid schedule and significant autonomy within an experienced contracts organization. The Senior Contract Advisor will support a highly specialized energy trading contracts function focused on natural gas, power, financial, and environmental markets. This initial five-month contract offers the potential for extension based on business needs, with a flexible hybrid schedule and three onsite days of your choice each week.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, redline, and negotiate agreements supporting natural gas, power, financial, and environmental transactions.
• Negotiate NAESB agreements, EEI Master Power Purchase and Sale Agreements, ISDA agreements, renewable energy certificate agreements, and other commodity trading agreements.
• Work directly with commercial and trading stakeholders to determine appropriate contractual structures for transactions.
• Manage negotiations with external counterparties through agreement execution.
• Review contractual language to ensure required protections, clauses, and commercial terms are incorporated.
• Advise internal stakeholders regarding contractual terms, risks, and agreement requirements.
• Manage contract onboarding, amendments, renewals, and execution activities.
• Coordinate with Trading, Front Office, Credit, Legal, Operations, and Compliance stakeholders.
• Support guarantees, credit support documentation, counterparty documentation, and related trading materials.
• Identify and resolve contractual and negotiation issues while managing multiple agreements in a fast-paced trading environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant contracts, legal, paralegal, trading documentation, or energy trading agreement experience.
• Direct experience supporting natural gas or power trading agreements strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience reviewing, redlining, and/or negotiating NAESB, EEI, ISDA, or similar energy trading agreements.
• Experience independently managing contract negotiations with limited supervision.
• Experience partnering with traders, commercial teams, Credit, Legal, Operations, or related energy trading stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of contract language and experience identifying legal and commercial issues within complex agreements.
• Experience with commodity trading master agreements, enabling agreements, amendments, and related documentation preferred.