Senior Corporate Counsel

About the role

Elders is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel to join its team on a 12-month fixed-term contract in Adelaide. It is a generalist in-house role within a collaborative team working across an impressive leadership team. The Senior Corporate Counsel is a key legal advisor within the Elders group of companies, providing strategic and commercial legal advice across the group's operations, transactions and regulatory obligations, while helping shape business outcomes, support complex transactions and governance, and manage legal risks.

Key responsibilities

• Provide strategic, commercially focused legal advice to stakeholders and support informed decision-making through clear risk-based guidance.
• Identify, assess and help mitigate legal risks arising from operations, projects and strategic initiatives.
• Manage disputes, litigation, complaints and regulatory matters, including engagement and oversight of external legal counsel.
• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements and legal documentation.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments and give proactive advice on legal and compliance obligations.
• Build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders and deliver practical legal solutions aligned to commercial outcomes.
• Develop and deliver legal education, guidance materials and training to raise legal awareness and governance.
• Mentor and guide junior staff through delegation and supervision of matters.

Required profile

• Unrestricted Australian Practising Certificate and relevant tertiary qualifications in Law.
• 7+ years of post-admission experience, ideally in a commercial law firm and/or corporate in-house environment.
• Proven experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating legal documentation.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to give practical, risk-based advice.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and manages competing priorities.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills.
• Collaborative leader and problem solver who can work autonomously; experience in agribusiness or knowledge of Elders' operations is highly desirable.