Permanent, full time
- Sydney Location
- Hybrid working arrangements
**How will I help?**
We have an exciting opportunity, for a qualified lawyer, to join the Strategy and Value Proposition Village within our Strategic Partnerships team.
As a Commercial Manager you will provide strategic commercial support across the Cash and Transactional Banking Line of Business (LOB) for customer and supplier engagements and implementing governance structures to drive development and improve the maturity of strategic partnerships.
You will also take a proactive role in analysing, advising, structuring, and negotiating commercial agreements in line with Cash and Transactional Banking objectives, broader strategic goals, and policies of Westpac Group. Your success will be measured on your ability to provide commercial legal advice on the impacts of contractual risks and managing the relationship with business stakeholders (including Legal, Risk, Procurement etc).
**What's in it for me?**
You'll play a significant part of the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our purpose is to create better futures together. So, we'll back you in the development of your career, internal career prospects, and flexible working. You'll also keep learning to grown, backed by a fantastic team of people with a can-do, supportive structure.
Whatever shape your family takes, we offer generous paid and unpaid parental leave for your nominated primary and support carers. This includes leave to organise adoptions, surrogacy, and foster care arrangements. And we continue to pay your super contributions while you take all the time you need to get your new family settled.
**What do I need?**
To be set up for success you will need to demonstrate:
- Qualified lawyer with 5+ years PQE
- Strong practical experience with commercial contract management and/or managing supplier and service provider relationships
- Experience negotiating contract terms to minimise risk and to suit specific products
- Stakeholder management expertise
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Highly developed negotiation, problem solving and analytical skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage competing demands and utilise effective project and self-management techniques.
**What is it like to work there?**
We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.
We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.
As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.
**How do I apply?**
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