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About the Role
As General Counsel, you will be a key strategic partner to the business, leading the legal function, strengthening governance, and enabling growth while managing risk in a complex, highly regulated environment. This is a critical role requiring strong commercial judgment and the ability to influence at the highest levels.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Executive team on legal, regulatory, commercial and reputational matters
- Set and lead the enterprise legal strategy, aligned to business priorities and risk appetite
- Support major strategic initiatives, including M&A, partnerships and transformation programs
- Oversee corporate affairs and communications, ensuring clear and consistent messaging
- Lead crisis management and issues response for high-profile matters
- Provide guidance on media engagement while minimising legal, financial and reputational risk
- Establish and embed regulatory, risk and compliance frameworks (including ACMA, ASIC and industry obligations)
- Oversee complex commercial contracts and negotiations to drive strong business outcomes
Requirements
- Proven experience advising public companies, Boards and executive teams in complex, highly regulated environments
- A strong legal foundation, ideally from a top-tier corporate law firm across governance, compliance and risk
- The ability to translate complex legal issues into clear, practical advice for senior stakeholders
- Experience leading legal strategy through M&A, transformation or significant regulatory change
- Strong commercial judgment, balancing risk with opportunity to support growth
- Experience managing sensitive media issues and high-profile stakeholder relationships
- Knowledge of data privacy, intellectual property and media regulation (or similar sectors)
- A track record of building and leading high-performing teams
Skills
- Commercial judgement
- Influence
- Legal strategy
- M&A
- Partnerships
- Transformation programs
- Corporate affairs
- Communications
- Crisis management
- Issues response
- Media engagement
- Regulatory frameworks
- Risk management
- Compliance
- Commercial contracts
- Negotiations
- Data privacy
- Intellectual property
- Media regulation
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
About the Company
- Southern Cross Media Group is Australia’s most prominent media companies, with a market-leading presence across television, audio, publishing and digital.
- The company owns some of Australia’s most renowned media businesses and platforms, including the Seven Network and its affiliate channels 7two, 7mate, 7flix and 7Bravo; 7plus; 7NEWS.com.au; LiSTNR; the Hit and Triple M radio networks; The Nightly; The West Australian; The Sunday Times; and PerthNow.