About us Sustainability is our business. As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, ERM partners with the world's leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations. ERM's diverse team of 8,000 world-class experts in over 150 offices in 40 countries and territories combine strategic transformation and technical delivery to help clients operationalize sustainability at pace and scale. ERM calls this capability its "boots to boardroom" approach - a comprehensive service model that helps organizations to accelerate the integration of sustainability into their strategy and operations. Learn more About the role ERM's legal team supports ERM Group management and operations globally and has members located around the globe, with bases in Europe, US, Australia and Asia. We are seeking an experienced legal counsel to join our Asia Pacific (APAC) legal team. This is a new, permanent, full-time role. Ideally the role will be located accessible to Perth (where most of the APAC legal team is currently based) or one of ERM's other offices in Australia or Asia. The role will report to the APAC Regional Managing Counsel based in Perth. The role's primary focus is to: provide legal support to the ERM Group's operations in APAC assist the legal team to achieve its contributions towards reducing ERM's risk profile, improving decision-making and enhancing client relations review and draft a broad range of contract documents including professional service contracts, framework agreements, subcontracts, secondment agreements, confidentiality agreements and reliance agreements advise ERM personnel and management on corporate governance and related compliance matters provide legal risk management support to staff across all business levels assist with managing external counsel in various APAC jurisdictions support other business enablement teams support integration of newly acquired businesses into the APAC region This role includes a significant component of contract reviews, drafting and advice. It would be ideal for a senior commercial contracts lawyer looking to join a multi-national commercial in-house team in a business-facing role, providing end-to-end service with a wide variety of work and responsibilities. Within a busy team and mutually supportive environment, you will enjoy high value work across the business. About You The ideal person for this position will: hold a relevant legal practice certificate, with at least 5 years post qualification legal experience have gained legal experience in an international or top tier law firm (preferably in the UK or Australia), and worked for at least 3 years as part of an in-house legal team (ideally for an international company) possess a well-developed understanding of commercial, contract and risk management issues (including a good understanding of compliance issues) facing a global business have demonstrable experience delivering legal support to a wide variety of technical staff be approachable, proactive and pragmatic be able to work as part of a team, whilst also able to work independently and with initiative prioritise good client relations and be sensitive to cultural differences presented by ERM's operations be professional, calm under pressure, well-organized, tolerant, able to grasp concepts quickly and able to meet challenging deadlines possess excellent verbal and written communication skills be fluent in spoken and written English (fluency in another language relevant to the region would be viewed favourably)