Description The Opportunity

Join a leading organisation in a role that will strengthen your legal career.

- Duration: Up to 4 months
- Arrangement: Full time (hybrid)
- Location: Brisbane (Virginia)

About You You are an experienced general commercial/procurement lawyer with a minimum of 8 years' experience, bringing a strong track record from private practice or in-house roles within large organisations.

Your Experience and Expertise

- Strong general commercial contracting experience, including drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on a broad range of commercial agreements
- Experience supporting strategic procurement functions and providing legal advice across procurement activities and supplier engagements
- Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end contract lifecycles from instruction through to execution and implementation
- Experience negotiating complex commercial terms with suppliers, vendors and business stakeholders
- Ability to provide commercially focused and pragmatic legal advice aligned with business objectives
- Experience working within large or complex organisations and supporting multiple business units simultaneously
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across legal, procurement and business teams
- Ability to identify legal, commercial and operational risks and provide practical solutions
- Experience advising on supplier management, contract variations, procurement processes and sourcing initiatives
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to simplify complex legal issues for non-legal stakeholders

Attributes

- Commercially minded with a strong focus on achieving practical business outcomes
- Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder engagement skills




- Strong negotiation and influencing capabilities
- Proactive and solutions-oriented approach to problem solving
- Ability to work independently while also collaborating effectively within a team
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Adaptable and resilient in a fast-paced setting
- Confident managing multiple priorities and competing deadlines
- Strong judgement and decision-making skills
- Responsive, approachable and customer focused

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/Procurement lawyers | Brisbane
🏢 Ashurst Perkins Coie
📍 Brisbane