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ABOUT YOUR TEAM

The Australian Business Unit (BU) Legal team is responsible for providing proactive legal support to CCEP’s Australian business. The team safeguards the business and protects its licence to operate by partnering with our people and enabling solutions for sustainable growth.

You will be joining a vibrant and collegial team who are recognised as value-adding business partners. The team has eight lawyers (including two specialist Workplace Relations lawyers), a Legal Operations Manager, a Paralegal and an Executive Assistant. We work flexibly at CCEP, splitting our working days between our cutting-edge office at North Sydney (3-4 days per week) and home (1-2 days per week).

ABOUT YOUR NEW ROLE…

The Senior Legal Counsel is responsible for providing informed, practical legal advice and training to the Australian business in order to create maximum value while appropriately managing business and legal risks in a complex and fast-changing environment.  Every day, you will partner with the business to drive sustainable growth, as well as act as a mentor for other team members and a key contact for key business stakeholders. The types of matters you might work on include navigating general commercial issues, drafting and negotiating a variety of agreements (particularly sales agreements and supplier arrangements), competition and consumer matters, supply chain projects, procurement projects, M&A projects, property and construction matters, health, safety and environment matters, marketing, intellectual property, litigation and other general corporate arrangements

In addition to leading these types of matters, you will be the key Legal partner or single point of contact (SPOC) for one or more business channels or functions, working closely with the leadership team/s for those channel/s and providing legal counsel in a manner that drives forward CCEP’s competitive and commercial advantage and safeguards CCEP’s long-term viability and success. You will be responsible for identifying all relevant stakeholders/functions that need to be involved in a particular project and engaging with them confidently for their input, adopting a “One CCEP” approach.

At your heart, you will be a commercial enabler and a team player with a passion to become entrenched in our business, to leverage your expertise, collaborate with stakeholders and influence decisions today for tomorrow

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Providing robust, clear and commercially-focused legal advice, with solutions that are designed specifically to work in a CCEP context and focused on areas that would otherwise bring risk to the business
• Acting as the key Legal partner or SPOC for assigned business channel/s/functions, working closely with the leadership team/s for those areas and providing legal counsel in a manner that drives forward CCEP’s competitive and commercial advantage and safeguards CCEP’s long-term viability and success
• Partnering with stakeholders across the Australian business to navigate general commercial issues, as well as CCEP’s complex brand partner arrangements (including advising on consent and other requirements under our arrangements with The Coca-Cola Company)
• Preparing, reviewing, drafting and negotiating a variety of agreements and other documents (particularly sales agreements and procurement contracts)
• Advising on competition and consumer matters
• Leading litigious matters, supply chain projects, procurement projects, M&A projects, property and construction matters, marketing and intellectual property queries, and health, safety and environment matters
• Developing strong relationships with a variety of stakeholders across the Australian business and seen as someone who protects, partners and enables for sustainable growth in everything they do
• Identifying all relevant stakeholders/functions that need to be involved in a particular project and engaging with them confidently for their input, adopting a “One CCEP” approach
• Acting as a “go-to” trusted adviser with the ability to effectively influence decision-making and ensure all legal consequences and implications are well understood
• Confidently engaging in difficult conversations with other employees and ability to escalate where necessary
• Maintaining strong relationships with brand partners through interactions with Legal teams and other staff
• Taking a lead role in the development and delivery of effective legal training and resources to equip business colleagues with the legal tools that enable them to manage the business more effectively and shape the legal environment in which they operate to CCEP’s competitive and commercial advantage
• Taking the lead on mentoring other team members and delegating tasks to more junior team members where appropriate
• Actively contributing to team Annual Business Plans, annual budgeting process and other strategic team initiatives 
• Effectively managing external law firm relationships to ensure value-for-money for legal services, including challenge where appropriate
• Driving innovation in the delivery of legal services, including by developing and maintaining automation tools for processes and documents in conjunction with the Legal Operations Manager 
• Proactively identifying opportunities to improve processes, policies and procedures to encourage continuous improvement and empower the Australian business 

LET’S TALK ABOUT YOU!

• At least 8 years of post-qualification experience
• In-house legal experience, whether on secondment or directly, with experience in an FMCG organisation highly regarded
• Commercially savvy, pragmatic lawyer who can “take a view” and understands real risk (vs. theoretical risk)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
• Broad commercial and corporate experience with strong commercial acumen
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills
• Ability to exercise creative thinking and to define new and commercially pragmatic approaches to problems
• Confidence to run with any issue with a strong sense of accountability and integrity 
• Ability to prioritise effectively and meet tight timeframes where necessary 
• Ability to focus on both big picture and details
• Demonstrated experience across a few different practice areas, with experience in competition and consumer law highly regarded
• Ability to work autonomously, effectively and seamlessly across our Australian business, alongside corporate functions and with other stakeholders
• Ability to manage a diverse workload across multiple jurisdictions and cultures
• Self-awareness, a steady demeanour in challenging situations and comfortable operating in a complex and fast-moving environment
• Demonstrated ability to deliver all key responsibilities described above

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? 

• Working with one of the world’s most recognisable brands.
• Free monthly product allowances to share with family and friends (including Coca-Cola, Mount Franklin, Monster, and more!).
• Access to our corporate benefits including Fitness Passport & discounts with our many diverse customers including Microsoft, Lenovo, Hertz, GoGet and Estee Lauder.
• Free counselling for you and your family via our EAP helpline as part of our commitment to well-being.
• Unlimited drinks onsite.

WHY CHOOSE US FOR YOUR NEXT ROLE?

We have an amazing culture at CCEP, to find out more make sure you check out the people stories on our website here

Applications close on Friday 5th December, 2025