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Legal Business Partner
Zespri International. Provide pragmatic and commercial legal and risk-focused advice to business stakeholders.
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in providing legal and risk-focused advice, with a strong emphasis on corporate governance, compliance, and dispute resolution within the FMCG and agribusiness sectors.
Highest-signal resume keywords
7 Years PQE ExperienceIn-House Legal ExperienceCommercial Legal KnowledgeRisk Management ExpertiseStakeholder Engagement
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Hard Skills
Legal AdviceDispute ResolutionCorporate GovernanceRegulatory ComplianceContractual ExpertiseRisk ManagementStatutory DocumentationIntangible AssetsCommercial MattersAgribusiness Law
Soft Skills
Analytical SkillsInfluencing SkillsContinuous Improvement MindsetIntegrityTrustworthiness
Industry Keywords
FMCGPrimary SectorConsumer MarketingKiwifruit New ZealandGlobal OperationsLegal OperationsStrategic InitiativesGovernance InitiativesEmerging Legal IssuesStakeholder Management
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Provide pragmatic and commercial legal and risk-focused advice to business stakeholders.
- Work as part of a global team to deliver effective and efficient legal services.
- Deliver strong legal operations, ethics and risk management as part of strategic initiatives.
- Undertake risk management, dispute resolution and governance initiatives.
- Work with the Head of Legal NZ and Legal team to ensure strong corporate governance practices across all Zespri entities.
- Ensure Zespri legal entities meet New Zealand corporate secretarial, structural regulatory, statutory documentation and corporate compliance requirements.
- Provide strategic and commercially focused legal advice to New Zealand-based and other Zespri business units.
- Support New Zealand-based litigation and dispute resolution proceedings.
- Provide technical expertise on regulatory, contractual and dispute resolution matters.
- Identify emerging legal issues and trends and align risk management with business objectives.
- Support regulatory engagement with Kiwifruit New Zealand and other relevant governmental bodies.
- Maintain current perspectives on regulatory and legal trends and communicate their impact to Zespri.
Requirements
What you’ll need- 7 years experience in PQE.
- Experience in in-house legal roles ideally in FMCG, primary sector or consumer facing business.
- 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.
- Demonstrated ability to work with multiple internal and external stakeholders to manage and deliver complex strategic workstreams and influence wider stakeholder groups.
- Experience within the legal team of a global/multi-national operation would be preferred.
- Demonstrated drive for continuous improvement.
- High level of integrity and trustworthiness with highly confidential and sensitive information.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive overall remuneration package, including a Short Term Incentive scheme opportunity.
- FlexWELL flexible work; WFH & the office.
- Additional paid annual leave day per year (Zespri Day).
- Two additional paid leave days for you to proactively support the moments that genuinely boost your mental, physical, emotional, and social wellbeing (Boost Days).
- Global Life and Permanent Disability Insurance.
- Group Medical Insurance benefits.