Senior Corporate Counsel - Contracts

About the role

Puget Sound Energy is looking to grow our community with top talented individuals like you! With our rapidly growing, award winning energy efficiency programs, our pathway to an exciting and innovative future is now. PSE's Legal Dept team is looking for qualified candidates to fill an open Senior Corporate Counsel - Contracts position! Specific details regarding the work arrangements for this position will be discussed in further detail during the interview process. Puget Sound Energy is Washington State's largest and most established energy company. We serve over a million electric customers and over three quarter million natural gas customers. As PSE works to transform our business to meet increased energy demand and decarbonize our power supply in compliance with Washington State's Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) while safely delivering reliable and resilient energy to our customers, we are looking for someone that shares the same passion to help us reach our de-carbonization goals. Puget Sound Energy, with our clean energy transition, has more going on than ever before. We contract with a multitude of organizations to ensure that we are able to deliver on our clean energy future. This role will advise on contracts ranging from critical partners to building critical infrastructure assets at all levels of our supply chains. The successful candidate will have a passion for contract review and to improve processes. This role will work cross functionally across the enterprise, applying knowledge and using judgement to determine appropriate risk exposure levels. All PSE employees are expected to uphold the safety compliance standards inherent in PSE’s operating and/or field procedures related to work responsibilities and promote and support a culture of total safety. Additionally, employees need to demonstrate commitment to conduct business honestly, ethically and consistent with our core values and Code of Conduct. All duties are to be performed in accordance with all regulatory compliance obligations.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, negotiate, and manage various contracts, including standard and non-standard vendor contracts master service agreements, strategic component sourcing agreements, network hardware and consumer product purchasing agreements, software licensing agreements, consultant agreements, NDAs, amendments, and statements of work
• Provide legal advice and guidance on contracts to internal stakeholders, acting as the first point of contact for legal terms review for our procurement team
• Familiarity with contract and vendor management tools and processes
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure that risk assessments for all technology and related contract purchases are performed
• Help improve templates, contracting/risk standards and related protocols for procurement contracts
• Manage a steady portfolio of active agreements in a fast moving environment, ensure timely execution of assigned agreements and keep stakeholders informed of progress regularly
• Identify any legal and business risks inherent to a proposed vendor, service, or other procurement agreements
• Advise on procurement related data privacy and data security issues
• Partner with internal information security teams to