General Counsel

SA Water Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

General Counsel SA Water Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Legal Recruitment Consultant at Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment Use your highly evolved legal, interpersonal and leadership skills in this lead legal role in Australia's 2nd largest water business.

Lead a broad legal and compliance team Challenging, commercially minded role Significant business with a positive culture About SA Water Every day, SA Water helps build a sustainable and healthy South Australia through reliable and trusted water services. As Australia's second largest waster business, the projects we deliver are significant in both size and impact, ensuring we meet the needs of today and future generations as we have for more than 165 years.

Our Values The culture at SA Water is at the forefront of what we do. Driven by our values, we foster an environment where our people thrive. By staying true to these values, SA Water consistently achieves positive results for all South Australians.

This Role This role will see you leading a high-quality team providing strategic legal and broader compliance and commercial advice to the business, including working closely with Senior Managers and executives to ensure best business outcomes. As well as supervising lawyers, this broad role will see you managing non-lawyers and providing support to the business across board and executive secretariat, general compliance and FOI, and occasional referred insurance claims.

The successful applicant will implement and maintain legal processes, documents and staff training, and provide practical legal advice to assist the business meet its goals. They will provide advice on statutory interpretation and state obligations, customer and supplier privacy, procurement, IP, and insurance matters, assist with company secretarial matters, attend Board meetings, and manage external counsel. As part of a relatively newly created division, the General Counsel will have the opportunity to shape and build up a team of lawyers and other professionals with a focus on working collaboratively to meet SA Water's vision, strategy and plans.

The Lawyer we Seek This role will suit senior lawyers with proven experience gained in quality in-house roles in senior positions, either managing a business or complete team and able to provide hands-on legal advice and contractual support to senior executives, including attending board meetings. They will enjoy contributing to a business commercially and be ready to take on a role that will be fast-paced and hands-on, but also strategic in nature.

To be considered, you will likely be a well-rounded lawyer with quality training, and around 12 or more years of experience. You will be confident but never arrogant, willing to listen, learn and contribute to the business and uphold its values for the long term.

The Benefits This role offers a rare chance to take on a leadership role encompassing both legal and compliance aspects, as part of a commercial team within a dynamic and significant business where you can contribute in both a legal and commercial manner.

With an office in the heart of the Adelaide CBD, SA Water offers a remarkable work culture with a focus on work-life balance and flexibility.

How to Apply To be considered for this strictly Adelaide based role you will be an Australian lawyer with current practising certificate and relevant in-house experience. Apply in confidence to Emma Leeseberg, via or call Emma on 0448 915 888 or Paul Burgess on 0414 687 629.

To obtain a copy of the PD for the role email Emma at This role is exclusive to Burgess Paluch and all applications will be forwarded to it.

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