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About the Role

We are seeking a commercially minded Legal Counsel to join Diageo’s ANZ Legal Team, playing a key role in supporting manufacturing, supply, and procurement operations across Australia and New Zealand. You will partner closely with supply, procurement, and site leadership teams to provide practical, risk-based legal advice that enables the business to move with confidence and pace. This is a broad and hands-on role with exposure to strategic projects, day-to-day operational matters, supplier and procurement contracting, and emerging regulatory issues impacting manufacturing and supply operations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Diageo’s ANZ Supply and Procurement teams to deliver practical legal advice across manufacturing, supply chain and operational matters.
• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including procurement, logistics, warehousing, contract manufacturing and supply agreements.
• Advise on legal and regulatory issues impacting manufacturing and supply operations, including consumer law, product safety, food standards, labelling, environmental obligations, recalls and mandatory reporting requirements.
• Act as a trusted legal business partner to Supply Leadership and Procurement stakeholders, helping them navigate risk, resolve issues and make informed commercial decisions.
• Support supplier and vendor matters end-to-end, including onboarding processes, contract approvals, dispute management and remediation actions where required.
• Contribute to strategic business initiatives, innovation projects and broader legal matters across the ANZ business as needed.
• Drive continuous improvement within the legal function by enhancing templates, playbooks, training materials and contract lifecycle processes to improve consistency, efficiency and value to the business.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate in NSW.
• 3–5 years’ post-qualification experience.
• Strong experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Exposure to supply, procurement, logistics or manufacturing agreements will be highly regarded.
• Commercially astute with the ability to provide pragmatic, solution-focused legal advice in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to partner effectively with senior business leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Proactive and hands-on in approach, with sound judgement, strong ownership and the ability to balance legal risk with business priorities.
• Exposure to regulatory issues relevant to manufacturing or supply operations — such as employment, industrial relations, WHS, environmental or consumer law — would be advantageous.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with curiosity, agility and a willingness to simplify processes, challenge thinking and help the business move forward with confidence.

Skills

• Commercial contracting
• Supply agreements
• Procurement agreements
• Logistics agreements
• Manufacturing agreements
• Stakeholder management
• Legal risk assessment
• Regulatory advice
• Continuous improvement
• Pragmatic legal advice
• Solution-focused advice

Location

• Sydney HQ

Work Type

• Hybrid working

Experience Level

• 3-5 years post-qualification experience

Education Level

• Qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate in NSW

Salary/Compensations

• Market-leading salary
• Performance-driven bonus

Benefits

• Competitive reward
• Market-leading salary
• Performance-driven bonus
• Industry perks
• Flexible ways of working
• Hybrid working with no set office days
• Industry-leading family leave
• Generous paid parental leave for all parents
• Support for life’s key moments
• Health & wellbeing support
• Mental health resources
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Employee assistance programmes
• Career growth opportunities
• Access to global opportunities
• Leading learning programmes
• Clear pathways for development
• Inclusive culture
• Values-led, inclusive environment
• Product perks
• Employee discounts and experiences across our iconic portfolio

About the Company

• With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company.
• We create brands consumers love.
• Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
• Legal at Diageo is about more than managing risk, it’s about helping the business move forward in the right way.
• Working across a global portfolio of brands, this team navigates complex legal and regulatory landscapes, from intellectual property and compliance to corporate activity and commercial partnerships.
• They work closely with teams across the business, offering clear, pragmatic advice that supports confident decision-making.
• It’s a fast-moving, ever-evolving environment where no two challenges are the same.
• You’ll be part of a global community of lawyers who are not only experts in their field, but trusted partners to the business, shaping outcomes, influencing decisions and helping bring our brands to life responsibly.
• With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company.
• Every day, over 29,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands.
• From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities.
• Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world.
• Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry.
• And through our people, their legacy lives on.
• Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world.
• Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of.
• With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills.
• Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born.
• In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you.
• Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential.

Equal Opportunity

• Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
• We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense.
• This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you.
• You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
• Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world.
• Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
• At Diageo, we pride ourselves on our fast paced, bold and agile culture.