Corporate Legal Executive - Durban, South Africa - Level-Up

Description

Qualifications & Skills

• Degree in Law (LLB or equivalent)
• Be an admitted attorney or advocate or be a corporate lawyer at a reputable legal practice or at a reputable technology or other corporate.
• Have at least 710 years' experience as a practicing attorney, advocate, or in-house legal counsel/corporate lawyer.
• A stellar academic record: Our client seeks to recruit candidates who have achieved excellent academic grades consistently throughout their education. The work of a Corporate Legal Executive is intellectually rigorous, demanding and you must be able to show that you have the intelligence.
• and ability to absorb, assimilate and analyses complex material very quickly.
• Must be an admitted attorney.
• Strong academics alone will not make a successful lawyer and other skills, interests and hobbies may indicate that a candidate is a well-rounded individual who will be able to cope with the demands of the job.
• Advanced knowledge of South African Law.
• Advanced knowledge of Labour legislation and practices.
• Understanding of sugar, logistic & poultry industries (FMCG sector).
• Group policies and procedures.
• Computer literacy.
• Contract drafting.
• Verbal and written communication / report writing.
• Interpersonal.
• Negotiation.
• Analytical skills.
• Problem solving.
• Administrative and organization
• Collaboration and influencing skills.
• Leadership and project management skills.
• Commercial Acumen.

Experience

• Minimum of 7 years post-articles legal experience or in a corporate environment as in-house counsel.
• A deep understanding of the business and Group Policies are advantageous.

Responsibilities

As part of the Executive Committee (Exco), you will:

• Support the formulation of the Companys future direction and business strategy, to optimise the value created for customers and stakeholders, and secure a sustainable future for our client.
• Contribute to the setting of corporate standards and ensure alignment between the Corporate Strategy and the service unit delivery plan.
• Promote and progress a collaborative culture in the business unit and across our client, leading and driving the overall approach to legal, corporate governance, and business support.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cost, and contribute to the efficiency pipeline, ensuring a commercial mindset is developed and embedded across the team.
• Role model our clients' values, creating and encouraging a culture of learning, where employees are able to flourish, perform, and achieve.
• This role will set the direction for our clients legal, governance, and business support services.

Legal

• Leading the Legal Team to ensure compliance with new and current legislation.
• Ensuring secure compliance with all statutory, legal, and policy requirements arising from the Companys activities.
• Providing high quality legal advice in a broad range of disciplines and applying appropriate judgement to decide which matters require legal input, and whether this should be provided internally or externally.
• Drafting, revising, and supporting the negotiation of contracts, ensuring that contractual terms provide compliance with relevant regulations and legislation, but also considering commercial factors.
• Ensuring senior management are appraised of legal issues, including new legislation which may have an impact on Our client activities and objectives.
• Advising on the mitigation of risk, and on regulatory, compliance, data protection, and all relevant legislation.
• Handling potential and actual disputes, in coordination with internal and external resources.

Information governance

• Leading the POPIA Compliance Team (Information Governance) to ensure compliance with data protection laws.
• Developing and managing the data protection strategy, including but not limited to POPIA.
• Ensuring that monitoring and reporting provisions are in place to capture changes to relevant information governance best practice.
• Maintaining an effective relationship with the Senior Information Risk Owner.

Corporate governance

• Leading the Corporate Governance function to ensure that our client is compliant with applicable legislative and administrative requirements, in order to safeguard the Company, its shareholders, and employees.
• Delivering strategic corporate governance and company secretarial advice, and guidance to all levels across Our client.
• Establishing and ensuring the effective delivery of Company secretariat services for the Board, Committees, and shareholders of our client.

Business support

• Leading the Legal Team as a business support functions to achieve a consistently high standard of service delivery for Our client.
• Developing and implementing communication mechanisms to ensure that all stakeholders are informed and engaged in the delivery of the business support strategy.
• Working flexibly and effectively with the Team, to promote and facilitate joined up thinking and action.

Purpose of the Role

As a key leader in the organization, the Corporate Legal Executive will offer clear and pragmatic legal advice while leading and implementing strategies to strengthen the overall governance, compliance, and probity practices of the organization. The postholder will develop the legal, governance, and business support strategy, to support our client in its mission and objectives, as well as providing professional leadership and advice on strategic issues affecting legal and governance across the organization.