Legal Manager

6 months ago

Perth, Australia Centurion Full time

**Legal Manager**
- **Permanent full-time position based in our well-established Perth Depot**:

- **Opportunity to progress to GM level following 12 months proven performance**:

- **Reporting to the EGM - Governance & Commercial**

**The Opportunity**

This role is reporting to our EGM of Governance & Commercial and be responsible for the management of all legal services at Centurion. The Legal Manager will provide leadership and high-quality legal advice whilst developing and maintaining business strategies to mitigate risk exposure to the company and ensure that Centurion operates in accordance with the law at all times.

**Culture and Benefits**
- Opportunity to progress to GM level following 12 months proven performance
- Discounts with hundreds of retailers at over 9,000 locations across Australia
- Join Australia’s largest privately owned Transport Company
- Attractive team benefits, stability, and exciting national growth opportunities
- RIPPA values-driven company with a serious safety culture
- Fast growing organisation, excellent training, progression, and support

**Tasks & Responsibilities**
- Manage, mentor and guide the team members who report directly to this role, assist in problem solving and influence internal and external stakeholders to ensure the business is operating lawfully
- Provide high-quality and appropriate legal advice to internal and external stakeholders in a timely manner
- Increase visibility and engagement of legal function by designing better ways of working with other departments
- Draft legal documents to optimise commercial outcomes for the business
- Complete weekly and monthly reporting on legal matters to Executive and the Board, ensuring that all updates effectively communicate the status and likely outcome of all matters.
- Face to face negotiation of legal matters with Customers and other external parties, including regulatory bodies
- Implement a legal training plan for Centurion and guide the business in understanding contractual and legal commitments
- Manage dispute resolution / negotiations and providing recommendations for resolution and settlement
- Provide legal support to the business in relation to Significant Safety Incidents
- Monitor changes in legislation and provide appropriate advice to the wider business
- Development of standardised documents
- Collaborate and liaise with internal and external stakeholders on-site and/or face to face to address immediate issues and streamline communication
- Maintain relationships within the direct team and wider business
- Ability to travel Regional/Interstate as required

**Skills & Experience**
- A Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) and current practicing certificate (Western Australia)
- 8+ years’ relevant experience working in both top tier law firms and in-house environments (highly desirable)
- Broad legal knowledge (corporate law, commercial, litigation, employment etc)

**Who is Centurion?**

Centurion is an Australian company in its fifth decade of operation, with a history of involvement in many modern infrastructure projects.

Since being founded in 1971, Centurion has developed into a full logistics solutions provider delivering a comprehensive range of distribution, warehousing, and project services. Centurion’s extensive transport fleet of over 2,000 vehicles and specialised equipment coupled with an unsurpassed branch network in key centres across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, and Queensland ensures a flexible and reliable supply chain solution.

Centurion offers a broad range of logistics services including full end-to-end solutions, lead logistics and off-site receipting for the energy and resource sectors, general freight, warehousing, refrigerated services, retail distribution, logistics support, over-dimensional transport, heavy haulage, specialised projects and time critical services.

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