Legal Counsel: Intellectual Property

To provide sound legal advice and support in the area of specialization enabling the provision of legal risk management for the business and to fulfill the role as an integral member of the Group Legal Function.

• Demonstrates strong relationship management skills with clients.
• Plan and manage projects and matters through to completion, including around resourcing with the requisite support and supervision.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of team objectives and strategy and provide high-quality support to the business as required by interacting with different legal and business stakeholders.
• Work independently on matters although supervision and support will be required as and where appropriate.
• Demonstrate strong analytical skills and solve complex problems creatively and effectively.
• Drives good cost control behaviour, especially around external spend, consistently delivering against a broad range of competing targets.
• Manage invoicing and reporting in respect of external spend as part of internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Drive innovation and development of digital capabilities where required.
• Add value in commercial transactions as well as technical discussions and assist in training provided by the Team that is beneficial/informative to internal stakeholders.
• Actively raise the profile of the Legal function and improve on Legal Key Risk management and awareness by embedding legal policies and control requirements in all areas of the business.
• Engage in productive and robust debate in the face of challenges, although support and supervision will be provided in such instances.
• Build strong risk partnerships with colleagues in other functions (especially key control areas) to entrench legal policies and control requirements.
• Fully understand the role of Legal in AGL and how it interacts with other functions and business units across AGL.
• Proactively collaborate across different teams and geographies within Legal to break down silos.
• Provide objective and constructive feedback and openly share knowledge and expertise.
• Acts as a trusted adviser to business and other infrastructure areas, and understands market and legal developments and their impact on business.
• Contribute to industry-wide initiatives and have a good network amongst peer groups externally.

• Admitted Attorney specializing in Intellectual Property and Commercial Contracts (Required);
• Three (3) to 5 years post qualification experience (PQE Required);
• Experience working in a Financial Institution (Preferred).
• Bachelor Honours Degree: Law, Military Science and Security (Required).