Legal Administrator

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About the role

At Woolworths we are creating an innovative and high performance in house Legal team. To ensure we deliver exceptional services to our clients it is vital that our lawyers and teams have reliable, high quality legal administrative support.  

We are looking for a legal administrator or trademark administrator to help support our lawyers, including our IP lawyers who are responsible for Woolworths’ broad range of brands and intellectual property assets.  You will provide a range of legal administration support services across all aspects of office administration and legal support for the General Counsels and Lawyers, meeting and travel bookings, coordination of legal reporting, electronic filing and matter management support and general typing and correspondence. In addition to this legal support you'll also be responsible for;  

• Reviewing IP Correspondence

• Filing new trademark applications and renewals

• assisting with various admin. duties relating to both foreign and domestic trademark matters

• creating new trademark records within our systems

• ordering documents, file history and  trademark searches

Reliability, professionalism, attention to detail and a passion for improving and finding better

ways of doing things will be key to success.  

You will work collaboratively across legal teams and practice areas as a shared resource to ensure administrative workloads are balanced and effectively prioritised.

About you

• 2+ years in a similar role with experience working in a professional environment

• Excellent typing and data entry skills

• Intermediate to advanced word, excel and powerpoint

• Previous experience using Google, SAP and Expense8 (desirable)

• Familiarity with reviewing and processing all IP correspondence

• Prior experience using a trademark database (desirable)

• Knowledge of trademark searching process

• Exceptional time management and prioritisation skills

• Confidence to use initiative and find ways to keep improving administrative processes

• Well developed interpersonal skills

• High attention to detail

• A calm and resilient approach to managing high workloads and tight deadlines

• A strong service orientation and desire to work collaboratively with others

• Ability to work autonomously

• Self motivated with a constructive, can-do approach

About us

Woolworths Group Limited is a proud, home-grown Australian business, employer of more than 200,000 people and committed business partner of many thousand local farmers, producers and manufacturers. The Group manages some of Australia’s most recognized and trusted brands including Woolworths, Caltex Woolworths, Dan Murphy’s, BWS, Cellarmasters, Big W, Countdown and ALH.

We value diversity and aim to create a vibrant and inclusive workforce which is reflective of the communities in which we operate.