Legal Manager

Step into a newly created legal leadership role with full ownership of a high-performing legal team.

Your new company

Our client is a well-established, top-tier financial services group undergoing a strategic transformation of its legal function. As part of this change, they are investing in dedicated, specialist leadership to support their fast-growing Commercial Insurance division. This role offers the rare opportunity to lead a newly structured legal team with a clear growth mandate and full support from senior leadership.

Your new role

As Manager Legal – Commercial Insurance, you will lead a nationally distributed legal team providing end-to-end legal support to the Commercial Insurance business unit. You will oversee all legal matters across:

  • Broker and distribution agreements
  • New product design and platform structuring
  • Policy wording and PDS review
  • Complex claims support and risk advisory
  • Regulatory interpretation and commercial enablement
What You’ll Be Doing

  • Lead and develop a national team of experienced lawyers, supported by a highly regarded special counsel
  • Provide commercially astute legal advice on growth initiatives, platform-based products, and regulatory risk
  • Engage directly with senior leaders across underwriting, claims, compliance, and business strategy
  • Shape legal strategy to align with the business’s commercial ambitions and risk appetite

This is a full-spectrum legal role—spanning front-end advisory, operational guidance, and business partnering at senior levels.

What you'll need to succeed

  • A senior legal professional with experience in insurance or financial services—ideally with exposure to commercial insurance

  • A proven or emerging people leader with the ability to manage, mentor and influence across a national legal team

  • Excellent knowledge of financial services regulation, insurance law, and commercial frameworks

  • Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder engagement skills—you’re confident advising senior business leaders

  • A pragmatic problem-solver who brings both legal rigour and a business-enabling perspective


What you'll get in return

  • Newly created role – shape your own legacy in a team built for future success

  • Breadth and depth – work across the entire legal lifecycle of a growing commercial insurance business

  • Leadership impact – lead a respected, capable legal team with national reach

  • Trusted advisor status – work shoulder-to-shoulder with executives in a business that values legal insight

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us Suras Khosla now on (03) 9604 9519 or email suras.khosla@hays.com.au.



LHS 297508

Summary

Job Type
Permanent
Industry
Banking & Financial Services
Location
VIC - Melbourne CBD
Specialism
Legal
Ref:
2937128

Talk to a consultant

Talk to Suras Khosla, the specialist consultant managing this position, located in Melbourne
Level 21, 360 Collins Street

Telephone: 0396049519

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