Legal Counsel

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Who are we?

From humble beginnings to extraordinary futures, Diageo is centred on crafting incredible stories of ambitious possibilities. From our iconic global brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Don Julio, to our local homegrown heroes Bundaberg Rum, UDL and Reeftip, we are a team of pioneers, looking to lead the future of our industry and brands from today. At Diageo, you will be a chosen custodian of our brand portfolio, entrusted with building brands for consumers to celebrate with in the moments that matter. Alongside you will be a group of ambitious, passionate and innovative people, who will help you to achieve extraordinary heights. Together, you will help us create a future worth celebrating.

What will your role be?

We're legal experts, understanding the complex laws that surround our business and our much-loved brands. Our Legal team are responsible for a range of legal challenges, from Corporate and Intellectual Property to Merger & Acquisitions and Compliance.

We're always seeking new and creative ways to take on the evolving challenges that today's commercial world presents. Our talented colleagues around the world are not just outstanding lawyers but also brilliant communicators and advisors. Whatever your skill as a lawyer, your distinct and valuable perspective will be celebrated and nurtured in our inclusive culture.

This role reports into the Legal Director, ANZ. The ANZ Legal Team consists of 2-3 permanent lawyers, with additional support from secondees and contractors from time-to-time. The Legal Team is also supported by the AsiaPacific IP Team, who assist with IP and Branding matters.

This role interacts across the Australian and New Zealand businesses with employees at every level and from every function. The ANZ Legal Team routinely becomes involved in strategic projects and initiatives as well as the full spectrum of day-to-day operations. This small team is agile, pragmatic, resilient, moves with pace and has a focus on business partnering…and, most importantly, knows how to have fun and bring their unique selves to work!

What does this role look like for you?

• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts across all business functions, including customer agreements and trading terms, event and sponsorship agreements, agency and marketing agreements, supply and service agreements, real property agreements, investment agreements, employment related agreements, and procurement agreements.
• Review marketing and advertising materials across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific to ensure compliance with the Alcohol Beverages Advertising Code, Diageo's Marketing Code, and other applicable laws and regulations;
• Advise on market-leading and market-first innovations and new product development, plus e-commerce and D2C strategies and initiatives;
• Advise on, and lead responses to, regulatory investigations, commercial disputes, and consumer-facing enquiries;
• Deal with regulatory matters and competitor and supplier disputes across a range of regulatory, marketing, intellectual property, and supply chain matters from time-to-time;
• Advise on, and lead legal workstreams for, mergers and acquisitions, transformations and other strategic projects from time-to-time;
• Advise on intellectual property rights and privacy risks and solutions;
• Advise on competition law, consumer law and privacy law matters, plus assist with training in respect of same;
• Assist with implementation of Legal Technology and AI Solutions for Legal Team.
• Assist with simplification of contract templates and review, approval and signing processes for all legal matters;
• Partnering with the business on day-to-day issues to ensure risks are appropriately identified and considered in all aspects of the business from supply, commercial, marketing, innovation, finance and HR;
• Guide and develop junior lawyers, secondees and contractors from time-to-time.

What will you bring to the table?

• Eligible or has a legal practising certificate in NSW;
• 5 - 7 years PQE;
• In-house experience preferred;
• Able to ensure that local business needs are met and stakeholder expectations are adequately clarified, aligned and met;
• Able to build risk resilience within business rather than risk aversions;
• Must be pro-active, demonstrate initiative, with a hands on approach to matters (contracts, queries etc) that contributes to identifying alternatives that help identify future needs of the business and build competitive advantage for Diageo;
• Experience in consumer product business preferred;
• Experience in consumer law, competition law and employment law beneficial;
• Commercially-minded, pragmatic and solution-orientated;
• Builds risk resilience rather than risk aversion, helping the business make (and take!) informed decisions on risks;
• Advances strategic objectives and thinks outside of the box;
• Enjoys experimenting, learning, failing fast, and iterating at pace;
• Prioritises speed and agility over perfection and rhetoric;
• High integrity and earns trust from business partners;
• Uses experience to focus on key issues and thinks ahead to anticipate potential problems;
• Thrives and enjoy working in a fast moving and challenging environment;
• Must be able to multitask and instinctively able to deal with a wide range of contacts (internal colleagues, external suppliers, key stakeholders);
• Operate with a continuous improvement mindset, looking for opportunities to simplify and create value in the legal team and across the business, and executing new strategies to streamline the way we work

What are the benefits?

We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this. At Diageo, you will have the ability to work flexibly to ensure you can unlock your own potential through creating bold plans and executing your vision.

You will also be rewarded through competitive salary and monetary benefits including bonus, flexible leave entitlements and product allowance as well as being supported via non-monetary benefits including an industry leading parental leave policy, volunteering days and workplace giving, and subscriptions to mental health and fitness platforms.

Our commitment to inclusion and diversity:

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don't let anything stop you from applying.

At Diageo, we pride ourselves on our fast paced, bold and agile culture. In order to ensure we're supporting the performance ambitions of our team, applications for this role will close 19th April 2024.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Sydney HQ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-03-26