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About the Role
Seeking an accomplished and commercially minded legal leader to join the Leadership Team as Senior Legal Counsel, ANZ. This pivotal role will act as the most senior Legal, Advocacy and Governance leader across Australia and New Zealand, providing strategic advice to the General Manager and Leadership Team to support growth, transformation, and decision-making while protecting the company's reputation and ensuring strong governance.
Responsibilities
- Leading the Legal, Advocacy and Governance function across Australia and New Zealand.
- Advising the General Manager and Leadership Team on strategy, growth opportunities, transformation and enterprise risk.
- Supporting the integration and continued development of the ANZ cluster.
- Overseeing legal and compliance frameworks, investigations, litigation, regulatory matters and governance requirements.
- Providing strategic legal guidance on commercial agreements, key customer relationships, supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, marketing and technology, and especially working very closely with the sales and marketing teams.
- Monitoring regulatory and geopolitical developments and helping the business respond to emerging risks.
- Managing external counsel, budgets and legal resources to deliver efficient, scalable and commercially focused support.
Requirements
- Commercially astute and influential legal leader with extensive experience operating in multinational FMCG environments and partnering with executive teams to drive business performance, manage risk and support organisational transformation.
- 5-10 years' experience in senior legal leadership roles within complex multinational organisations preferably FMCG.
- Proven expertise leading legal, compliance, ethics and risk management activities across multiple countries and jurisdictions.
- Strong track record advising executive leadership teams including sales and marketing teams and aligning legal strategy with business growth objectives.
- Experience managing complex cross-border matters, including regulatory engagement, investigations, litigation and crisis management, as well as competition, privacy, marketing laws and product claims.
- Exceptional ability to translate complex legal and regulatory issues into practical, commercially focused business solutions.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across diverse functions, cultures and geographies.
- Experience supporting business transformation, restructures, integrations, acquisitions and divestitures will be highly regarded.
- High levels of professional credibility, integrity and judgement, with the ability to build trusted relationships with senior leaders, regulators and external stakeholders.
Skills
- Legal leadership
- Commercial advice
- Risk management
- Governance
- Compliance
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing skills
- Cross-border matters
- Regulatory engagement
- Investigations
- Litigation
- Crisis management
- Competition law
- Privacy law
- Marketing law
- Product claims
Location
- Australia
- New Zealand
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5-10 years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Contributions to super
- Bonus opportunity
- Support, training, and an extensive onboarding program
- Delicious coffee and tea on-site
- Quarterly free staff orders of coffee and tea brands
- Career development opportunities
- Opportunity to purchase up to 10 days of additional Annual Leave per year
About the Company
- JDE Peet’s is the world’s leading pure-play coffee company, now part of Keurig Dr Pepper, with a presence in more than 100 markets.
- Guided by the ‘Reignite the Amazing’ strategy, focused on brand-led growth across three big bets: Peet’s, L’OR, and 10 strategically selected local icons led by Jacobs.
- In 2025, JDE Peet’s generated total sales of EUR 9.9 billion and employed a global workforce of more than 21,000 employees.
- Believes amazing things happen over a cup of coffee, turning ideas into impact and possibilities into reality.
- Works as one team guided by values: Dare to Amaze, Own It, Make It Simple, and Win Together.
- Offers freedom to innovate, courage to take bold steps, and support to grow careers in a global environment.
Equal Opportunity
- At JDE Peet’s we aim to create a better future where we authentically serve, reflect and embrace everyone.
- Believe in fostering a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organisation where everyone feels comfortable to truly be who they are and unleash their full potential.
- Do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, age, disability, or any other trait protected by law.
- Place DE&I at the core of our people processes throughout the entire employee lifecycle.
- Aim to drive objectivity and eliminate any potential bias, ensuring an inclusive experience in the workplace.
- Offer reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process if required.
- Earned the prestigious Catalyst Award, and the Fair Pay Leader Certification in 2025 thanks to an unexplained gender pay gap of 0.52%.