Senior Legal Counsel, ANZ & Regional Strategic Accounts

Description

Vertiv's ANZ business is growing, and the legal team is growing with it. This role carries two mandates. First, you bring senior legal capability to a busy ANZ practice, adding depth alongside existing counsel to support an increasing volume of complex commercial, project and service contracts. Second, you lead legal support for designated strategic customer accounts across multiple Asian markets. Both mandates require a lawyer who works independently, gives clear commercial recommendations and takes ownership of outcomes.

Vertiv designs, builds, installs and services critical infrastructure in some of the most demanding environments in the world. The legal work is just as technical. AI tools are part of how this team operates. You are expected to use them and improve how the team uses them. We are building a legal function that continuously raises the bar on how it delivers.

This is a role for a lawyer who operates as a strategic partner to the business, not a service function waiting to be asked.

You work as a senior legal adviser within the ANZ legal team, supporting country leadership, sales, bids, engineering, project delivery, service and finance. You are proactive: when a deal is in play, you do not wait to be invited. You join pursuits early enough to influence bid strategy, lead contract negotiations through to signature, and stay involved through delivery and service.

Vertiv's ANZ work spans complex commercial and project contracts across critical digital infrastructure. You negotiate with end customers, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers. The work calls for a lawyer who can assess project and commercial risk across a range of contract structures, give leadership a clear recommendation with a point of view, and move quickly when circumstances change.

You contribute to building a legal function that is stable, trusted and operating at a high level. That means investing in the team's collective capability: developing playbooks and templates that make the team scalable, working within the CLM system of record, improving contract turnaround times, and cross-training so that knowledge lives in systems and processes rather than in one person's head.

You maintain a current understanding of Vertiv's legal exposure across ANZ. You ensure statutory and regulatory obligations are met, flag material risks early so that leadership hears from Legal first, and know when to engage specialist or external counsel. You escalate to the General Counsel, Asia with a clear recommendation and a practical path forward.

You lead legal support for designated strategic customers whose relationship with Vertiv spans multiple Asian markets. Working alongside regional account leaders, you negotiate master supply and services agreements that set the framework for country-level orders and project contracts.

These accounts often involve complex, multi-jurisdictional arrangements. You work independently to coordinate with in-country legal resources, ensure commercial terms are consistent and deliverable across markets, and resolve issues as they arise. You bring the same proactive, solutions-oriented approach to these accounts as you do to the ANZ business.

• Australian legal qualification and current practising certificate, or eligibility to obtain one.
• At least 15 years' post-qualification experience.
• Substantial experience independently leading complex commercial negotiations, advising senior stakeholders and exercising sound judgement on cross-border matters.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously, take ownership of a portfolio of matters and self-direct without waiting for instruction.
• A trusted adviser who provides recommendations with a clear point of view, not lists of issues.
• Comfortable using AI tools in daily legal work, including research, drafting and contract review. Willing to help shape how the team adopts technology and to advise on AI-related risk as fluently as commercial or regulatory risk.
• Relevant experience may come from private practice, an in-house role, or both.

• Construction, major projects or infrastructure contracting experience, particularly on the supplier or contractor side. This includes tendering, subcontractor flow-downs, security of payment legislation, variations, delay and disruption claims.

• Direct data centre or critical digital infrastructure experience.
• Comparable experience in power, cooling, engineering, industrial equipment, energy or telecommunications sectors.
• Familiarity with hyperscale or colocation customers and multi-country account agreements.

 

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