Executive Manager, Legal

1 week ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Iag New Zealand Full time

Create impact as an
**Executive Manager, Employment Law**

Join the largest insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. We're here for you. Are you ready?

**YOUR ROLE**

You'll step into our newly created Executive Manager-level role in Group Legal to develop, lead, and inspire a high performing team (5, in total) providing legal services to IAG enterprise-wide concerning employment, industrial relations, and safety & wellbeing. Not only will the team provide world class legal and governance services, but you will also champion compliance and ethical conduct across the Group.

Bring your continuous improvement mindset to further uplift the ways of working and processes for your team and provide meaningful contribution to enhance the wider legal function. A pivotal part of the role will be to build out a plan aligned to IAG's strategy and provide a clear vision for your team.

**ABOUT YOU**
- Your experience will highlight 10+ years in top-tier law firms and leading corporates, along with strong leadership and talent development skills.
- Previous experience where you've defined and shaped strategies and initiatives into tactical plans and successfully executed the delivery.
- Advanced legal skills (eg technical legal analysis, advice preparation, effective communication, drafting of contractual and other documentation) and depth of commercial experience.
- Leading, inspiring, and developing a high performing team.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, along with project management capabilities
- Bachelor of Laws or equivalent, with Australian legal expertise essential and NZ an advantage
- Qualified as a legal practitioner and admitted to appropriate professional body (eg Law Society of New South Wales)

Applications close Tuesday 1st Aug, 23.59 AEST

**ABOUT US
IAG is not only the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand, underwriting over AU$13 billion of premium per annum, we're also a tech and research facility, a hub for climate change experts and a centre of resilience design. We chat over coffee with customers, advocate for them in the corridors of Parliament and back them up in the community when life's moments hit hardest.

You'll know our brands - CGU, WFI, NRMA Insurance, AMI, NZI, and State Insurance to name a few. Together they turn our IAG purpose of making your world safer into action by helping, supporting ambitions and making insurance accessible.

When you join IAG, you're not joining one brand. You're joining a large purpose-led, Trans-Tasman group dedicated to making your world a safer place.

We're ready to grow your career, acknowledge every part of you, recognise your brilliance, lead you with purpose and help you live your own purpose through us.

**At IAG you can enjoy**:

- Flexibility and support so you can live life to the full
- Grow your financial future with 13% superannuation as standard
- Community volunteer days and team volunteer activities
- Be part of a net zero business by 2050.

We're committed to the reconciliation movement in Australia for First Nations people and focus on providing a safe and supportive work environment for all our employees. You can find our Reconciliation Action Plan on our company website.

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