Counsel

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa bp Full time

Job Profile Summary

  • This is a broad ranging role requiring the incumbent to provide comprehensive legal advice to several clients across a diverse Customers & Products business. The purpose of the Legal Function is to deliver legal work which supports BP's ability to meet the world's energy needs.
  • The role holder will report to the Managing Counsel, South Africa and will be responsible for providing legal support to BP's Mobility & Convenience business, as well as the midstream, lubricants and marine businesses, both locally and internationally.
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Key Accountabilities:

  • With a great level of independence, provide proactive and commercially focussed legal advice and support that assists in the delivery of the business' strategic plans and when necessary escalate matters to Managing Counsel
  • Provide an effective compliance environment to manage and reduce legal risk in the business and its operations
  • Provide local legal support to the international Customers & Products businesses in Southern Africa
  • Provide simplified businessfocused legal solutions to potentially complex or fastmoving problems
  • Liaising regularly with the business colleagues on needs of the business and service delivery to it from the Legal team
  • Define ways of working between Legal and business ways of working and engage the business on implementation
  • Meet agreed deadlines or, where that is not possible, find the appropriate solution timeously
  • Supporting the Managing Counsel, South Africa and representing the Legal Function on specific matters
  • Support the Managing Counsel, South Africa in and if required lead the management and oversight of external law firms, ensuring that the use of external firms is recorded, tracked against estimate and performance of the external firms is monitored against a clear brief or instruction
  • Proactively creates connections across the business/function in order to leverage and collaborate with other lawyers within the BP group as well as with the other Customers & Products lawyers and specialist teams globally as appropriate
  • Support the Managing Counsel, South Arica in driving simplification in all substantive legal areas and the day to day process and creating and maintaining the use of standardised solutions
  • Act consistently in line with BP standards including Code of Conduct

Education and Experience Requirements:

Education
- _ Qualified South African admitted lawyer with extensive legal experience_

Experience

  • Have at least 10 years' Post Qualification Experience, including time with a reputable South African law firm
  • Have knowledge of key industry legislation, such as competition, environmental and health & safety laws, as well as South African property law and Deeds Office procedures
  • Have some litigation experience in both the Magistrates and High Courts
  • Demonstrable experience in negotiating, drafting and advising on a broad range of commercial contracts
  • The ability to selfmotivate in order to deliver to deadline and manage multiple conflicting demands across a diverse business portfolio
  • Excellent presentation skills, able to engage and influence a nonlegal audience
  • Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
  • Able to prioritise work and comfortable handling large workloads under time pressure
  • Proven track record in effectively collaborating, engaging and communicating with the business and functions to advice on legal issues
  • Excellence in networking and working in teams

Entity

  • Legal

Job Family Group

  • Legal
Group

Relocation available

  • No

Travel required

  • No

Time Type

  • Full time

Country

  • South Africa

About BP

LEGAL


Join us and become a trusted advisor delivering legal support to the group focused on material risk, ‎value and growth, protecting ourselves and enabling the realisation of our purpose, strategy, ambition and ‎aims.


  • Together we will achieve this by:‎ providing professional legal advice and counsel to the entities we support
- leading and co-ordinating the identification and management of legal risks
- developing a highly skilled, progressive and diverse legal team
- supporting the entities in the delivery of their accountabilities
- living the bp code and being role models of our values and behaviours

Experience Level

  • Senior
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