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, Sydney or Melbourne 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

As the Legal Operations Manager, you will support the Legal Senior Leadership Team (SLT) by providing strategic and operational leadership across the Legal function. You will focus on improving efficiency, strengthening governance, reducing risk, and enabling the Legal team to deliver on its strategic objectives. You will play a key role in enhancing how Legal partners with and supports the broader business.

Day to day you will:

• Act as a trusted business partner to Legal by identifying automation opportunities, optimising use of service providers, reducing costs and leveraging emerging technologies such as AI and self‑service workflows.
• Support the General Counsel as the business manager for Legal, fostering strong relationships with Technology, Finance, People & Culture and other ART teams.
• Oversee the Legal team’s technology portfolio, systems and tools in partnership with Technology Services.
• Drive a Legal future-state roadmap to improve service efficiency, address operational pain points, and support delivery of high-value commercial advice. 
• Coordinate Legal team collaboration and engagement activities on behalf of the General Counsel.
• Ensure disciplined and sustainable financial management and reporting, including oversight of ART’s Legal Panel.
• Continuously refine and embed best practices in knowledge management, leveraging available technologies and platforms to ensure consistent and effective ways of working across all teams within legal.
• Drive consistent use of Xakia matter management, enabling team‑wide practices, reporting and insights to improve Legal workflows and performance.

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 and Melbourne.

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, Legal Technology or similar role within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong experience with content management systems, including a deep understanding of version control, file permissions and retention policies.
• Proven ability to identify Legal’s operational needs, build effective stakeholder relationships, and define resource requirements, project workflows, budgets and billing arrangements.
• Demonstrated hands‑on experience using Power BI and SharePoint to deliver meaningful reporting, insights and information management solutions.

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, 13 March 2026.

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.

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