Head of Legal

4 days ago

Melbourne, Australia Sportsbet Full time

**Overview**

Are you commercially focused individual who has strategic legal expertise? We are on the hunt for a Head of Legal to support our Corporate and Commercial functions.

**About us**

Sportsbet's purpose is to bring excitement to life for its customers and we do this by over-delivering on excitement through serious fun, disrupting the status quo and living our values. We’re a flexible, progressive, open-minded, and inclusive employer with over 7,000 cool, clever and curious people around the world. As part of the Flutter Group, we’re a global player, but in Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin we’re tight knit, with 1,000 of us bringing excitement to life every day.

Our commitment to responsible gambling is genuine and demonstrated through the wide range of responsible gambling initiatives and tools

**About the role**

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing advice (and managing advice provided by external lawyers) on legal and regulatory issues of importance to the business in a range of commercial law matters and transactions.
- Managing the end to end legal negotiation of key transactions and other commercial agreements (including major sponsorships with racing, sport and media partners, and M&A opportunities, etc).
- Regular touch points and working collaboratively with Flutter Entertainment on shared initiatives.
- Developing and leading corporate legal strategy as part of Legal, Risk and Corporate Affairs team to assist the business meet its strategic objectives.

**About You**

We’re looking for someone with:

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate to people in a range of positions up to executive level
- As a minimum, 8+ years PAE within a senior people leader position at a leading top/mid tier firm in either commercial or regulatory practice areas, or equivalent in-house experience
- Strong legal drafting and negotiating skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and escalations.
- Experience in providing commercially focused legal support and innovative solutions
- Enthusiasm and passion for learning and development and who enjoys working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

**The Perks**

We work hard and play hard, so along with a very competitive salary and generous performance-based bonus, we will also provide you with:

- 25 days annual leave (a whole extra week of holidays)
- Genuine flexible working and remote working policy with an $850 work from home office allowance
- Discounted gym memberships, free breakfast and loads of event and conference tickets and many more
- Weekly concierge service including free massages, manicure/nail appointments and soon to be barber - all onsite
- Access to Headspace App and an employee assist program
- Best in class Parental Leave program with six months paid leave for Primary Carers and Circle In membership
- Free merch including t-shirts, SB branded coffee keep cups (Frank Green might we add) and much more
- Tailored career development programs, as well as a commitment to developing Thought Leader and Specialist Talent programs

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