Description The Opportunity Join a leading logistics organisation in a role that will strengthen your legal career.
- Duration: 12 months
- Arrangement: Full time (hybrid)
- Location: Melbourne
About You You are a General Commercial lawyer with a minimum of 5 years' experience, bringing a strong track record from private practice or in-house roles within large organisations. Your Experience & Expertise:
- Demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of commercial customer and supplier agreements across diverse business operations
- Proven ability to manage contract negotiations end-to-end, balancing legal risk with commercial objectives to achieve practical business outcomes
- Solid project management capability, including tracking contract deliverables, managing negotiation priorities and ensuring project milestones are achieved
- Ability to independently manage a high volume of contractual matters while maintaining attention to detail and delivering high-quality outcomes
- Experience engaging with external counterparties, suppliers and customers to negotiate contractual positions and resolve commercial issues efficiently
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to work effectively across legal, procurement, operations, commercial and project teams
Attributes:
- Highly organised with strong project management and prioritisation skills
- Commercially minded, with the ability to provide practical and solutions-focused legal advice
- Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to build consensus among multiple stakeholders
- Strong relationship-building capability and confidence engaging with customers, suppliers and senior business leaders
- Strong attention to detail while maintaining focus on broader commercial and project objectives
Requirements:
- Current Australian practising certificate
- Right to live and work in Australia
About Reach Reach is the flexible legal resourcing platform of Ashurst Perkins Coie, a global law firm with more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices. Sitting within Advance, the firm's NewLaw division, we place lawyers and professionals where they're needed most — whether our clients need to meet a surge in demand, cover leave, bridge a recruitment gap, or bring in specialist expertise. Why join Reach? Reach gives you the flexibility to build a career that fits your life — not the other way around. We work with talented consultants across a broad range of specialties, matching the right people with the right opportunities.
Here's what you can expect as a Reach consultant:
- Flexibility and choice — control over how, when, and where you work, on terms that suit your life.
- A genuine partnership — a dedicated Reach team who will get to know you and actively champion your career goals.
- The backing of a global firm — the resources, reputation, and culture of Ashurst Perkins Coie, including access to clients doing market-leading work and a refreshingly open and inclusive community.
Interested? Ready to find out more? Apply now or get in touch with Adam Saunders, our Talent Solutions Advisor, at
[email protected] — we'd love to hear from you.
📌 Reach Legal Consultant | General Commercial Lawyer | Melbourne
🏢 Ashurst Perkins Coie
📍 Melbourne