Senior Legal Advisor

2 weeks ago

Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Zespri Group Limited Full time

Company Overview: Zespri Group Limited is a leading marketer of kiwifruit, with a mission to help people, communities, and the environment thrive through the goodness of kiwifruit. We source high-quality kiwifruit from our network of 2,800 New Zealand and 1,500 international growers and post-harvest companies.

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About the Role: As a Senior Legal Advisor, you will provide pragmatic and commercial legal advice to business stakeholders and work as part of a global team to deliver effective and efficient legal services within the global legal function. You will report to the Head of Legal - NZ and partner closely with senior leaders in the legal team and wider business stakeholders to deliver strong legal operations, ethics, and risk management.

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Key Responsibilities:

  • Deliver excellence in the legal function, drive strategic initiatives, and contribute positively and proactively to Zespri-wide issues
  • E nsure strong corporate governance practices across all Zespri entities and compliance with New Zealand corporate secretarial, regulatory, statutory, and documentation requirements
  • Provide strategic and commercially focused legal advice to New Zealand based and other Zespri business units on legal aspects of Zespri's business
  • Support New Zealand based litigation and dispute resolution proceedings in association with Legal function leaders
  • Proactively identify emerging legal issues and trends which impact on Zespri and engage wider stakeholders to get agreement on alignment of risk management with strategic objectives of the business

Required Skills and Qualifications: To be successful in this role, you will need

  • 7+ years' experience PQE ideally with experience in both inhouse legal roles (FMCG, primary sector or consumer facing business advantageous) and well-established corporate law firms
  • A current practising certificate from New Zealand Law Society (or overseas jurisdiction with capability to obtain a NZ Practising Certificate)
  • Strong technical knowledge in legal issues relating to commercial matters, intangible assets, agribusiness, and/or consumer marketing
  • Ability to analyse and understand ambiguous and complex issues and translate these into business opportunities, strategy, and action

Benefits: As a member of our team, you will enjoy a competitive remuneration package, flexible work ethos, additional paid annual leave day per year, additional paid volunteer day to volunteer within your community, group medical insurance benefits, convenient Mount Maunganui office location, and free onsite parking

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