Take hold of a monster opportunity and join our Legal team as a Legal Operations Manager.  If you’re a good fit for this role and live in Brisbane or Sydney, we’d love you to apply. 

Why join us?

• You'll get 14% super as standard, to help your future come alive.
• Unleash your potential and build a career to be proud of through excellent training and development opportunities.
• Balance your work between in-person days at our purpose-built hubs and working from home.
• In the office, enjoy end of trip facilities, a yoga and multi-faith room, parent and carer rooms, quiet rooms, BrewHub coffee facilities, and collaborative team spaces.

About the role

Reporting into the General Counsel, you will support the Legal Senior Leadership Team
(SLT), by providing strategic and operational support to all teams within Legal to improve
efficiencies, enhance governance, reduce risk and enable the legal team to execute the
Legal strategic plan and to serve their business partners more effectively by applying business and technical practices to the delivery of legal services.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Provide strategic planning, financial management, project management and technology portfolio investment expertise to allow the legal team and ART to effectively manage risks, monitor compliance, incorporate tech tools and deliver value to ART.

• Operate as an integrated and trusted business partner to the Legal team and ART by identifying opportunities for automated processes and strategically using service providers to drive efficiency (while reducing costs).

• Support the General Counsel as ‘business manager’ for legal, ensuring effective working relationships with legal team business partners in Technology, Finance, People & Culture and other ART teams.

• Oversight and management (working alongside Technology Services) of the legal team’s portfolio of technology systems, processes and available tools.

• Support the General Counsel to coordinate team collaboration activities.

• Maintain a strong and sustainable approach to financial management and managing ART’s Legal Panel.

This role is a permanent opportunity. 

While our preference is for the successful candidate to be based in Brisbane, we are equally open to considering applicants located in Sydney.

About you

It goes without saying you'll be a great communicator with top notch interpersonal skills. We'll also expect you to pick up problems and come up with quick, creative ways to solve them. It's quite likely you tick some of the following boxes too:  

• Bachelor of Computer Science (or equivalent) and/or Bachelor of Laws.
• Extensive experience in a Legal Operations or Technology role working in large organisational context.
• Substantive experience working with content management systems along with a deep understanding of concepts such as version control, file permissions and retention policies.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and address Legal’s needs, develop relationships and define resource requirements, project workflow, budgets and billing.

About us

Our 2.4 million members trust us to take care of over $330 billion in retirement savings. And we help them take charge of their finances and face the future with confidence. Our inclusive culture means you’ll be valued and heard in a respectful workplace. We've created an environment where you can be yourself and do amazing work. It's that simple.

Apply online now

Everyone is welcome to apply. We value diverse thinking, cultures, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities. Awaken your career at Australian Retirement Trust and apply now. Applications close Friday, 1 August 2025.

We don’t want to leave you with a monstrous wait. So, you’ll hear from us after the closing date to find out whether you’ve made it through to the next round or not. Being fair and up-front is important to us – and recruitment is no different.