Legal Counsel

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Mercury's reputation is built on the qualities and behaviour of our people - great individuals in high performing teams sustaining exceptional performance over time.

Joining the 2018 ILANZ Innovation award winners and reporting to the General Counsel, you will work in a highly regarded and commercially focused team adding value across the whole business.

Key accountabilities:

• Trusted business partner - understanding Mercury's strategic ambitions and drivers; providing commercial, right sized and risk based legal advice on a wide range of issues.
• Legal resource - managing external lawyers to deliver value; balancing internal and external resource to deliver the right result.
• Give something back - delivering training and insights on legal issues and regulatory developments.
• Service delivery - implementing changes in the delivery of legal services; ensuring continuous improvement and performance excellence.
• The team - contributing to the team's operating model, business plan and strategic priorities.
• Stakeholders - maintaining effective relationships with a range of stakeholders so appropriate, commercial decisions are made.

The right person:             

Qualifications and experience:                                      

• Bachelor of Laws or equivalent.
• Current New Zealand practising certificate.
• Between 3 and 5 years' experience in private practice and/or another in-house team.
• Strong commercial law fundamentals; privacy and information security experience advantageous.
• Energy industry knowledge and experience advantageous, but not essential.

Skills and competencies:

• Business partnering - can get close to stakeholders, to understand their aims and drivers and to provide the right balance of challenge and support in delivering legal services.
• Drives for results - has a track record of producing commercial, right sized and risk based legal services; embeds learnings and continuous improvement.
• Insights and wider perspective - develops knowledge of Mercury and the NZ energy landscape (legal, regulatory and political) to help develop business tactics and strategy, driving growth.
• Strategic and commercial thinking - focuses on business priorities.
• Builds relationships - develops relationships with team and stakeholders, collaboratively delivering solutions.
• Stakeholder influencing - collaborates with stakeholders, gaining support and commitment.

Working for Mercury you will join an IBM Best Workplace and be part of a diverse, professional and co-operative team where continual training and leadership development is encouraged. You will have access to great healthcare and insurance benefits and play your part in an organisation committed to the sustainable management of our environmental resources.

If this sounds like your next move - joining a company building its reputation for excellence - then apply before 5pm Sunday, 11 August 2018.