Legal and Contracts Manager

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Thales Full time

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Legal Support to GTS SA Business
- Responsible for drafting, negotiating, preparing and managing the contracts to be executed from proposal to completion of projects, including partnerships and supply chain.
- Work closely with operational functions and help in elaborating relevant contractual solutions and identifying contractual, legal and compliance stakes so that risks are detected, measured and mitigated.
- In compliance with the relevant Group policies, the Job Holder will interface with external counsels and law firms for analysis and management of specific legal issues in the framework of complex contractual and/or legal arrangements.
- Provide legal guidance, advise and promote legal awareness.
- Manage Resolution of Disputes and Litigation relying on local law firms.

Corporate Secretariat, Governance & Board Office
- Provide expertise in local legal and contractual systems related to GTS business activities in South Africa.
- Draft, update, Implement and monitor the Governance rules and delegations of authority/signature in line with Thales rules and local laws.
- Perform secretarial responsibilities for corporate bodies (Board(s), General Meeting(s) and Management Meetings including related preparation and documentation.
- Responsible for addressing corporate law, governance and compliance aspects for GTS SA.
- Draft and sign on behalf of shareholders the statutory resolutions required for the compliance of companies with local company laws/regulations.
- Secure the legal sustainability and continuity of GTS SA, particularly to adapt to changes in laws, regulations and succession of management.

Legal Accreditations and Documentation
- Manage, update, renew and archive legal and contractual documents.
- Monitor the timely updating and renewal of local administrative documents.
- Manage the legal qualification and local legal accreditations of GTS SA to be qualified to perform business and commercial activities in compliance with local regulations (including B-BBEE regulations requirements).

Compliance
- Be the GTS SA Compliance Officer as defined in applicable instructions.
- Manage trade compliance incl. export control.
- Responsible of the deployment / management of RGPD rules at GTS SA and provide trainings whenever requested.
- Contribute to the implementation of Thales Group / GTS ethics & compliance standards, and as such participate notably to the deployment of an ethics & compliance communication and training plan.
- The Job Holder will assist the GTS SA Country Captain in addressing audit reviews (internal and external), corporate law, governance and compliance aspects for the Companies.
- Ensuring GTS SA's compliance with the Group’s / GTS' directives as well as with applicable laws and regulations, including Trade compliance, Competition Laws Compliance, Data Protection Compliance, Anticorruption Compliance.

Litigation management
- Review, in coordination with relevant GTS / Corporate stakeholders, progress of outstanding litigation and liaise with and manage external lawyers whenever requested.

Legal & Contracts related support of GTS SA activities (support bids, projects and procurement)

Support to Bids
- Identify, analyze, manage and reduce the main contractual risks while optimizing contractual opportunities in bids and projects, support contractual analysis, Interpretation, documentation, claims, disputes on both sales side and supply side
- Ensure GTS SA's rights are protected and the undertaken obligations are adhered to all throughout the performance of the contractual commitments by involvement in bids/projects, coherent methodology, proper staffing and adequate skilling.
- Manage formal clarification process related to T&Cs with bid teams to update and reflect them in the Legal analysis and memos.
- Prepare input for bid/no bids meetings (Gates) and check the exhaustiveness and the validity of the documents for contract signature by the authorized management
- Manage contract management activities for transition between bid and project phase with particular focus on conditions for contract to come into force (Site take over, Advance Payment, Work Permits, Guarantees etc...)
- Provide country legal intelligence and knowledge to the Legal Units exporting to the country.
- Supporting the bid team in negotiations with the customer
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- Ensure contractual consistency with co-contractor(s) if relevant

Support to Projects
- Ensuring members of the project teams are fully briefed on all material elements of the contract
- Monitoring and interpretation of contractual obligations during the project
- Managing changes to the contract baseline
- Management of cont


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