Corporate Legal Executive

2 weeks ago

Durban, South Africa Tych Business Solutions Full time

**Job ID**: 83866**Date Posted**: Posted 7 hours ago**Expiration date**: March 8, 2024**Location**: Durban**Job Title**: CORPORATE LEGAL EXECUTIVE - DURBAN - KWAZULU NATAL

Main Responsibilities

(summarize in short sentences the key responsibilities and tasks that require 5% or more of the time of the incumbent)

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

- support the formulation of the Company’s future direction and business strategy, to optimise the value created for customers and stakeholders, and secure a sustainable future for 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 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 the Client values, creating and encouraging a culture of learning, where employees are able to flourish, perform, and achieve.
- This role will set the direction for Client 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 Company’s activities.
- 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 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 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 Client.
- Establishing and ensuring the effective delivery of Company secretariat services for the Board, Committees, and shareholders of Client.

Business support
- Leading the Legal Team as a business support functions to achieve a consistently high standard of service delivery for 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.

Education and Qualification

(What is the minimum qualification or education that would be required for this role)
- 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 7-10 years’ experience as a practising attorney, advocate, or in-house legal counsel/corporate lawyer.
- and ability to absorb, assimilate and analyse complex material very quickly.
- Must be an admitted attorney

Knowledge and Skill

(what kind of knowledge and skill is required in this role - basic skills, technical skills, specialized, analytical)

Knowledge
- 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

**Skills**:

- Computer literacy
- Contract drafting
- Verbal and written communication / report writing
- Interpersonal
- Negotiation
- Analytical skills
- Problem solving
- Administrative and organisation
- Collaboration and influencing skills
- Leadership and project management skills

Commercial Acumen
It is essential for the Corporate Legal Executive to also fulfill the role of sound business advisor. Commercial awareness is essential and the Corporate Legal Executive is expected to appreciate

Experience and Training

(What kind and how many years of experience must the incumbent have had in order to be proficient in the role)
- Minimum of 7 years post-articles legal experience or in a corporate environment as in-house

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