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Mutual MarketplaceSee more

addressAddressBrisbane, QLD
CategoryLegal

Job description

Legal Counsel (Property) 

ABOUT US  

Mutual Marketplace Pty Ltd is an exciting, shared services company that is jointly owned by two of Australia's largest credit unions, Heritage and People's Choice Limited (People First Bank) and Great Southern Bank. We provide high-quality, customer-driven shared services to help drive sustainability.  

We do this by putting our customers at the heart of everything we do and are always innovating, improving, and simplifying how we do things.  

Our purpose is to deliver shared services that make business simple.  

Central to all that we do, our values of Kindness, Ambition, Responsibility and Efficiency drive our daily decisions.

  

ABOUT THE ROLE 

Reporting directly to the General Counsel and supported by our Senior Legal Counsel – Property, and our Property Paralegal, this important role provides legal, solution-based advice and requires a high degree of judgement in the commercial application of laws and regulations to the business.  

  

Your working week will be busy and diverse and include the following core responsibilities (as an example): 

  1. Work with and provide legal advice to the business and our customers, including: 
    • drafting, negotiating, reviewing and advising on a wide range of retail and commercial leases, subleases, disclosure documents, letters of offer, extensions and renewals of leases; 
    • devising legal strategies to minimise risk to customers and Mutual Marketplace; 
    • advising on statutory compliance and regulatory issues;  
    • developing (and updating as appropriate) template agreements, internal policies, other precedents, and processes; and 
  2. Provide legal advice to clients of Mutual Marketplace Legal within the agreed scope of services, and costs agreement, and in accordance with the requirements of an incorporated legal practice; 
  3. Establish and maintain good working relationships with key stakeholders (internal and external); 
  4. Monitor legal and compliance risks and work with the Senior Legal Counsel and General Counsel to formulate appropriate mitigation strategies; and 
  5. Liaise with the Paralegal Leasing, property team members and other staff as directed 

  

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE 

The successful candidate will be highly motivated and expected to work with a high level of autonomy, will have strong demonstrated experience within a similar position and hold a current practising certificate.   

You will demonstrate exceptional communication skills coupled with the ability to build and maintain strong working relationships and a passion for delivering customer-focused services. 

In addition, you will have: 

  • Ideally 2-3 years’ post admission experience, or greater in retail and commercial leasing; 
  • Experience drafting and negotiating retail and commercial leases and associated documents; 
  • Strong communication skills with natural ability to speak with a wide range of stakeholders, including Mutual Marketplace senior executives and workplace colleagues, Mutual Marketplace customers, landlords, landlord agents; 
  • Experience in successfully managing stakeholders and their needs, preferably in a shared service environment; 
  • Skilled in succinct, plain English drafting;  
  • Ability to work with autonomy, prioritise tasks and identify risks; 
  • Proven consistently high attention to detail; 
  • Experience in being commercial and solutions focused. 

  

WHY JOIN MUTUAL MARKETPLACE? 

When you join Mutual Marketplace, you are joining a supportive, driven team in a collaborative work environment with a great company culture, where you can grow and thrive in the next step of your career.  

Our people are at the centre of what we do and in addition, we offer: 

  • Competitive remuneration package. 
  • Flexible work-from-home options and great work-life balance. 
  • 5 additional ‘life leave’ days per year
  • Employee Assistance Program, supporting you and your family’s health and wellbeing. 
  • Professional development and training opportunities. 
  • Annual flu shot. 
  • As part our ambitious Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitment, we are proud that our Brisbane office has achieved carbon neutral status to support more sustainable outcomes for climate change 

  

APPLICATION PROCESS 

Please apply via Seek with a covering letter and resume outlining your experience and relevant attributes in relation to the core competencies of this role. Applications close 10amMonday 27th May 2024 however the role may be appointed sooner than this date if the right applicant is found- Apply now.  

  

Applicants must have the right to work in Australia. Applicants will be required to undertake appropriate background screening and referees will be sought from candidates following the interview process. For further information or for a confidential discussion please contact Human Resources at ****@mmpl.com.au.  

Mutual Marketplace is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that celebrates the difference in all our employees. We endeavour to ensure our recruitment process is fair and accessible for all applicants, and if you require any special accommodations to apply for this role, we encourage you to let us know at the time of your application.  

  

PRIVACY STATEMENT 

Mutual Marketplace collects the personal information you provide in your application, and via the application process, in order to assess your application. During the application process, we are also likely to collect personal information about you from third parties, such as referees when they provide references, academic institutions or training, certification providers, providers of licence and background-checking services, recruiters, and other service providers who assist in the process, and other publicly available sources such as social media platforms. If you choose not to provide us with the personal information requested, we may be unable to process your application. 

We disclose your personal information to our workers who assist us in operating our business, third parties to whom you have agreed we may disclose your information, or as otherwise required or authorised by law.  We use third-party service providers to operate our business and assess your application, and those third-party service providers may have access to your personal information as a result of our use of their services. Some of those service providers are located overseas, such as LinkedIn and Microsoft located in the United States of America.  We take reasonable steps to ensure these third parties have appropriate security for your personal information, and where possible, we require that personal information be held on servers located in Australia. 

More detailed information about how you can access and request correction of personal information we hold about you, and how you can make a complaint about a breach of privacy, can be found in our privacy policy, available on Mutual Marketplace’s website. 

Refer code: 2264404. Mutual Marketplace - The previous day - 2024-05-23 20:30

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