The opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel – Privacy and Regulatory to join Bupa APAC.

The purpose of this role is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world through delivering on Bupa’s ambition to become the world’s most customer-centric healthcare company. This role will help achieve Bupa’s ambition by overseeing and providing strategic, commercially focused legal advice to Bupa APAC. Specifically, the role is for a senior lawyer who will be responsible for managing, overseeing and undertaking legal work in respect of privacy matters across the APAC business and regulatory matters across regulated Bupa APAC businesses.

At Bupa, we care about you and your career, and we have a strong culture of succession planning and promoting internal movements to ensure our employees are constantly learning new things and feeling challenged in their role.

This is a permanent full-time role based in Melbourne with hybrid working arrangements.

How will you make an impact?

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing, overseeing and providing high quality, reliable and comprehensive legal advice to the leaders, managers and executives in the Bupa APAC Market Unit in respect of Privacy and Regulatory matters. This aspect of the role includes advice on the interpretation and application of industry specific laws.
• Identifying and reporting on upcoming changes to law and regulation and the relevant impacts on the business, including ensuring change readiness in respect of any privacy law reform in Australia
• Providing support on the maintenance of formal relationships between Bupa APAC businesses and the relevant regulators, including drafting of regulatory correspondence.
• Ensure the provision of highest quality, reliable and comprehensive legal advice to each of the Leadership Teams and the APAC Market Unit Executive Team on privacy and regulatory matters.
• Exploring and adopting legal process management initiatives to optimise the provision of legal services to the business
• Developing relationships and collaborating within Bupa APAC and Bupa global legal team to deliver outcomes for the business

Why work at Bupa?

We keep our people smiling by helping them improve their lives in and outside of the office.

We’re a welcoming lot, no matter who you are or where you’ve come from. We welcome all talents and backgrounds and embrace our differences, so you can bring your true self to work.

We support our people to be the best version of themselves, physically and mentally. With a healthy work/life balance, leadership support, reduced private health cover, study leave, volunteering options and a commitment to promoting from within.

Our employees can access wide range of benefits: from our own products (incl. health insurance subsidies) to many other products and services via our partnerships program (like Apple, Samsung, JB Hi-Fi, plus gym and spa discounts to name a few). We reward our people and celebrate their success, provide initiatives that develop careers and look after our people’s health, wellbeing, and futures.

What do I need?

• Minimum 10+ years relevant post admission experience in-house or in private practice
• A strong understanding and prior experience in privacy law  
• A strong regulatory background is desirable.
• Technology and security experience is preferred, but not essential.
• Past experience with compliance and risk management is preferred, but not essential.
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Commercial acumen with the ability to provide pragmatic legal advice
• Healthcare/ health insurance regulatory experience is not essential
• Law degree from an Australian or international university
• A current relevant practising certificate in a state Supreme Court and the High Court of Australia

About Bupa Asia Pacific:

Bupa is an international healthcare group which has been committed to a purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world for more than 70 years.

Bupa Asia Pacific operates in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, supporting about 6.5 million customers through a broad range of health and care services including health insurance, aged care, dental, medical, optical and hearing services. Employing more than 20,000 people in the region, we believe that we can make a real difference to the lives of customers through our values, purpose and the way that we deliver personalised care.

Our people reflect the diversity of our community. At Bupa, your wellbeing, identity and own story is respected and valued.