Highly commercial in-house role working closely with senior managers and execs | Friendly, collaborative team of lawyers | Varied interesting work The company: QIMR Berghofer is one of Australia’s most successful medical research institutes. We seek to discover, diagnose and deliver better treatments for some of the world’s deadliest diseases. Every day, QIMR Berghofer’s team of 1000 scientists, support staff, and students lives out the Institute’s purpose to achieve better health and wellbeing through medical research. They research hundreds of diseases and conditions within Cancer, Mental Health & Neuroscience, Infection and Inflammation, and Population Health , in more than 60 specialised laboratories. In translating discoveries from research bench to bedside and progressing research from hopeful theory to daily reality, we are saving lives. About the role: As part of the growing and busy legal team you will work across the legal function, reporting to the General Counsel. You will work collaboratively with other lawyers in the team across a variety of work, including: reviewing, negotiating and drafting contacts including licences, deeds and other commercial agreements, funding arrangements, privacy, property law and intellectual property; advising on high value projects for the Institute often involving third parties; various business as usual legal work including insurance and employment law; proactively identifying risk and compliance requirements and work on process improvement within the business; liaising and engaging with government bodies and agencies across the requirements of the Institute; and managing and briefing external counsel in specialist legal areas where required. Skills/Experience: To be considered for this role you will have: 4-8 years' PAE from a commercial, corporate or IP practice with strong contracts experience and an unrestricted practicing certificate; demonstrated experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts; excellent attention to detail and organisation skills; and a commercial approach allowing you to manage a variety of internal and external stakeholders. Benefits: Awaiting you is: a role with a fantastic legal team led by an experienced General Counsel; reasonable work hours; 4 day per week option / flexibility is available; and a competitive salary plus generous salary sacrificing packaging and benefits. Apply now: Click APPLY or contact Peter Liaw at Peppercorn Recruitment on 0422 805 803 or email peterpeppercornrecruitment.com.au, quoting reference number 3654441. Please submit your resume in Word format only. Peppercorn Recruitment has been exclusively briefed on this role by QIMR and all third party applications will be forwarded to Peppercorn Recruitment for consideration.