Legal and Compliance Counsel
Hexagon
Legal and Compliance Counsel
- Job ID
- 2024-2689
- Category
- Legal
- Type
- Permanent Full-Time
- Company : Name
- Other
Overview
Legal and Compliance Counsel
Our world class Legal & Compliance team at Hexagon's Autonomous Solutions division is hiring a Legal and Compliance Counsel. Reporting to our Vice President, Division General Counsel, and Division Compliance Officer, you will draft, review, and negotiate complex contracts and be responsible for legal compliance initiatives and ad-hoc projects. You are passionate about providing insightful, thorough, focused, and risk-based legal guidance. Your stakeholders rely on you as a trusted advisor to provide timely, pragmatic, business-oriented solutions as you effectively manage legal risk. With a focus on delivering exceptional results, your positivity, confidence, articulate communication, strong relationship building, and solid business acumen will support and complement our global team.
The Location: Hexagon is a global company with locations around the world. This position based in Perth, Western Australia.
Responsibilities
As Legal and Compliance Counsel you will be responsible for these activities:
- Provide authoritative and comprehensive legal services meeting the commercial and strategic needs of the business
- Advise on legal risks and mitigation strategies, and supporting good governance through appropriate discussion and escalation of issues
- Review, draft, and negotiate a variety of commercial contracts and government procurement transactions, including customer and supplier agreements, distribution agreements, intellectual property licenses, non-disclosure agreements, development agreements, and real estate leases
- Maintain company registers, drafting resolutions and board minutes
- Develop and deliver legal and compliance training across the organization
- Help maintain and develop policies, standards and checklists
- Identify and analyze new legislation and proactively proposing and implementing solutions
- Participate in cross-functional project teams and committees
- Ethics and Compliance Programs: Developing and overseeing ethics and compliance programs to promote a culture of integrity and ethical conduct within the organization. Conducting internal investigations into allegations of misconduct and taking appropriate remedial action when necessary.
Qualifications
Must Have:
- An LLB or JD from an accredited university and license to practice in your governing jurisdiction
- At least 10 years' of corporate commercial experience gained in-house or at a top-tier law firm
- Expertise in dealing with international corporate, commercial and technology development contracts
- Track record of delivering results and pragmatic, risk-based legal advice
- Superb accuracy and attention to detail
- Exceptional time management and organization skills, with the ability to meet deadlines and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to impact and influence both internal and external stakeholders and provide exceptional customer service
Nice To Have:
- Expertise in intellectual property licensing
- Certification in data privacy
- Familiarity with project management principles
- Fluency in multiple languages
Not sure if you meet all the qualifications for this role? Let us decide! At Hexagon, we are committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you’re excited about the opportunities this role could bring, we encourage you to apply. For any questions about the role or our company, please email our team at hrrecruitingteam.ap@hexagon.com and we will be pleased to follow up with you. Please do not send cover letters or resumes to this address.
The Company: Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications. You’ll be joining over 24,000 people in 50 countries on the leading edge of your field.
Hexagon’s Autonomous Solutions division is a global technology leader, pioneering end-to-end solutions for assured positioning on land, sea, and air. We are an industry leader recognised for technical innovation, unsurpassed quality, and industry-leading customer support. Our solutions power intelligent positioning ecosystems in vital industries and safety-of-life applications. We enable the advancement of autonomous technology, where cars, UAVs, industrial vehicles, trains, vessels and more will operate safely, securely, reliably, and efficiently thanks to our solutions that provide assured autonomy and positioning.
We will make all necessary reasonable adjustments to make the application process accessible and accommodate the individual needs of candidates. If at any point you need adjustments to be made, please contact Human Resources at hrrecruitingteam.ap@hexagon.com
