Recruiter :
Jason Elias
- Exciting role within a growing business with a strong heritage and bold future
- Supportive and collaborative team culture that values innovation and impact
- An inclusive environment that celebrates diversity
Our client is a growing Australian food manufacturing company with some of Australia’s most loved and innovative brands. With a diverse portfolio of products, brands and categories, manufacturing plants across the East Coast and headquartered in South Yarra, Victoria.
OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE
This role is responsible for providing legal advice and support across a broad range of commercial, corporate, compliance, and employment matters.This role is suitable for a junior General Counsel and/or an experience Senior Legal Counsel looking for that step up into their first “head of” role
Reporting to the now published General Manager, Legal & Corporate Affairs, you’ll act as a key advisor to the business, managing high-level legal issues and leading key areas such as privacy, modern slavery, employment and industrial relations, food safety, marketing and packaging approvals, and intellectual property.
You’ll also take ownership of legal governance frameworks, drive the development and delivery of legal training, and oversee internal processes such as contract management and legal clinics.
This role involves managing external legal providers and legal tech platforms, with a focus on minimising legal spend and optimising compliance systems.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide timely, pragmatic,and solutions-focused legal advice across commercial, corporate, compliance, and employment matters.
- Leadand manage a broad range of commercial contracts and legal risk areas, including employment, food safety, privacy, and intellectual property.
- Act as a key advisor on people, safety,and industrial relations matters, including disputes and workers’ compensation claims.
- Oversee governanceand compliance programs, including legal onboarding, internal training, and risk management initiatives.
Manage external legal providers and platforms to drive efficiency and innovation in legal service delivery. - Support internal stakeholders with day-to-day legal advice, marketing approvals,and regulatory queries.
- Act as Privacy Officerand contribute to the development and rollout of legal training and compliance frameworks.
- Monitor legislative changesand provide advice to ensure business alignment.
ABOUT YOU
You are an Australian-qualified lawyer with strong experience in corporate and commercial law, ideally gained in or advising the FMCG, manufacturing, or broader commercial sector.
To succeed in this role, you’ll be a change agent who loves to create and think big. You thrive on being empowered, having the freedom to act, and holding yourself accountable to deliver to high standards. You’re seeking something outside the box and want to be part of something unique and growing. You must be willing to be an enabler, adviser and partner who is prepared to "get their hands dirty"
You will have:
- A minimum of 6-10years' post-qualification experience, including in-house legal leadership.
- Strong corporate,commercial, and regulatory law expertise.
- Experience in the FMCG or manufacturing sectors (highly regarded).
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including confidence working with regulators, customers, suppliers,and the executive team.
- Demonstrated success in developing governance frameworksand leading compliance initiatives.
- A collaborativeand empowering leadership style, with experience mentoring legal teams and influencing cross-functional stakeholders.
- Proficiency in managing both internaland external legal counsel and service providers
- Strong verbaland written communication skills.
Hands-on experience designing and delivering organisation-wide compliance programs and training initiatives.
Benefits
Opportunity to work with well-known, proudly Australian-made brands and products
- Exciting role within a growing business with a strong heritageand bold future ambitions
- Supportiveand collaborative team culture that values innovation and impact
- An inclusive environment that celebrates diversityand fosters a true sense of belonging
- Hybrid work flexibility
- Modern offices in fantastic South Yarra location
- Commitment to equal opportunityand creating a workplace where everyone can thrive.