Principal Legal Counsel , AU Stores Legal - Sydney | Amazon Job

Job Description

Amazon's Australia Legal team is seeking a highly experienced litigation and regulatory lawyer, ideally including consumer regulator engagement.

Key job responsibilities
Regulatory:
- Manage and respond to consumer regulator compulsory information-gathering notices, including scoping, data collection, privilege review and preparation of response letters and memos.
- Prepare briefing papers, talking points and Q&A for regulator meetings and leadership.

Litigation & disputes:
- Assist in managing active litigation, including concise statements, defenses, discovery/preliminary discovery and without-prejudice correspondence.
- Support contractual, commercial and regulator initiated disputes. Instruct and manage external law firms, including scoping, budgeting and reviewing their work product.

General:
- Draft, review, and negotiate correspondence, legal advice, and dispute-related documents to a high standard, as part of a fast paced organisation.
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, including senior leadership, to deliver practical, risk-based advice.

Basic Qualifications:

- 10+ years of legal experience in private practice or in-house.
- Law degree and admission to relevant bar association
- Excellent legal drafting, analytical and project-management skills, with the ability to manage large volumes of data and documents.
- Strong communication skills (verbal, written, oral)
- Sound commercial judgment and the ability to distil complex legal issues into clear, actionable advice for business stakeholders.
- High degree of autonomy, discretion, and comfort operating in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
- Strong working knowledge of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) and the Australian Consumer Law.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience working closely with and advising senior executives of an organization or equivalent

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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