Company Description
SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,500 laboratories and business facilities across 115 countries, supported by a team of 99,500 dedicated professionals. With over 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, compliance and sustainability.
Job Description
If you want a role where every day is different, where you’re adding value to multiple stakeholders, touching almost every industry sector, then we could be a great fit. We are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel who will play a key role providing timely, strategic, commercially pragmatic legal advice across our business lines and functions.
This hybrid position offers the flexibility to work from home and can be based anywhere in Australia, while supporting a broad range of legal matters across a dynamic and fast-paced business environment.
This is a diverse and busy role and has a lawyer reporting to it, enabling the right person to create a dynamic team.
If you’ve worked in-house, have experience in providing advice on high value commercial contracts, have some experience in M&A and want to work with a great team, we’d like to meet you!!!
What we’re looking for from you:
- Take ownership for the timely, accurate, and effective delivery of legal services.
- Work collaboratively with the functions and operations to achieve commercial outcomes within the risk acceptance level set.
- Provide legal support and advice on all transactional and contractual issues across (including supply contracts, business/asset acquisitions and disposals, property).
- Handle claims and litigation (with external legal support if required).
- Advise on Data Privacy matters (with external legal support).
- Provide guidance of matters relating to M&A from DD to integration (with support from external)
- Set/review/update internal governance policies.
- Work within a multi-national where, at times, input into projects may be required.
- Develop others and share expertise and knowledge.
- Contribute to streamlining processes and activity through the adoption of existing and new technology.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Admission as a solicitor in Australia with eligibility for unrestricted practice.
- At least 10 years of experience in law firms and/or multinational companies.
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience working as in-house counsel.
- Broad experience in corporate law; experience in property and litigation will be highly regarded.
Additional Information
WHY WORK FOR SGS?
Working at SGS means joining an innovative, Global company. Here are some of the benefits to working for SGS.
• As a company, we have embraced the shift to flexible work
• Sustainability is embedded in our culture and the way we do business
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time for volunteering day and blood donations
• Corporate health & wellbeing offers
• Ongoing learning & development
• Career development opportunities (Nationally and Globally)
• SGS Rewards: Our employee benefits platform with access to retail and online discounts and cashback
COME TO WORK AND BE 100% YOU
SGS Australia supports a diverse workforce, we encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures – including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people living with disability. Providing employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is an important part of our SGS Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). We truly believe the diversity among us will continue to foster a strong, innovative, and forward-thinking workplace.
SGS Australia acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual, and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.