Melbourne, Australia

At BMW Group Australia, our Legal team provides legal support across our Australian and New Zealand businesses. The team supports a broad range of legal and compliance matters, working closely with business departments, dealer networks, government authorities and external law firms.

Our Legal team is currently searching for a Legal Graduate.

What awaits you?

• Assist with preparing legal agreements and template documents, including Dealer Agreements and Disclosure Documents for the BMW, MINI and Motorrad dealer networks.
• Maintain document and contract registers, organise and archive contracts, and support the implementation and use of contract management, legal matter intake and digital signature systems.
• Act as a first point of contact for government authority requests and third-party demands, coordinate responses and documentation, and receive complaints and litigation matters escalated to Legal.
• Provide day-to-day support to the Legal team across automotive and financial services matters, assist with compliance queries and coordinate responses to intellectual property infringement matters.
• Support process improvements within the Legal team, including procedures for authority requests, deeds of novation, record keeping and contract management.
• Subject to your qualifications and practising certificate, provide supervised legal services and advice, including reviewing documents and marketing materials and preparing promotional terms and conditions, supply agreements and non-disclosure agreements.

What you should bring along?

• A legal background, preferably a completed law degree and an intention to seek admission to legal practice.
• Strong reading and writing skills, with a keen eye for detail when preparing and reviewing documents.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to organise information, maintain accurate records and support document management processes.
• Good computer skills and a willingness to learn legal systems and applications; familiarity with Excel is desirable but not essential.
• Initiative, sound judgement, honesty and an eagerness to learn, supported by a proactive approach and a willingness to work hard.
• Exposure to, or an understanding of, professional office practices and the ability to work with internal teams, government authorities and external law firms.

Please note: An internship at BMW Australia cannot serve as a supervised legal training programme for the purposes of the Legal Profession (Admission) Rules 2015.

What do we offer?

• Health & Wellbeing initiatives
• Lifelong learning & career development
• BMW & Mini promotions and product offers
• Annual spend on BMW & MINI merchandise
• Free onsite parking
• Onsite café
• Subsidised onsite gym, dry cleaning and car wash facilities
• A dynamic, inclusive and sustainable working environment

BMW Group is an equal opportunities employer and takes great pride in fostering and promoting diversity in every aspect of our work life and culture.  We highly regard the skills, knowledge, experience, ideas, perspective and energy our diverse workforce brings into the company.

Employment at BMW Group Australia is conditional upon pre-employment checks undertaken by the candidate on request and clearances received.  This includes qualifications and employment checks, relevant background checks and may include police check(s) and credit check(s).

By submitting an application for a role at BMW Group Australia the candidate confirms:

• They have valid rights to work in Australia
• They agree to undertake integrity checks upon request should their candidacy progress to an offer of employment.