Manager: Corporate Legal Services

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Sanlam Full time

**What will you do?**
- A position for a **Manager: Corporate Legal Services** exists in the Corporate Legal Services team, based at **Santam Sandton or Tyger Valley, Cape Town.**

The purpose of the role is to render legal support and solution services to the Santam Limited Group, taking into account commercial demands and business imperatives.**What will make you successful in this role?**
- Manage all legal aspects and key contracts in the direct, intermediated and outsourced business environments i.e. binder holder, outsourced services and intermediary services agreements in our Conventional, Specialist and affiliate businesses.
- Lead the business in achieving legally and commercially sound outcomes through the provision of considered and legally astute advice.
- Support business interactions with external services providers and stakeholders, including but not limited to claims disputes, service disputes and managing non-claims litigation.
- Assess the impact of legislative and/or regulatory developments on business and design solutions to address the impact, including but not limited to short-term insurance underwriting, products, distribution models and client service partners such as panel beaters, adjusters etc.
- Provide support to Claims on legal matters including internal arbitration, Ombud review satisfaction, claims management philosophy and claims settlement processes.
- Manage and work in close proximity with the business and the various underwriting teams in the drafting and reviewing of general commercial contracts and policy documentation.
- Manage the negotiation and implementation of all legal aspects of strategic commercial projects and transactions.
- Generally identify, manage and mitigate legal risks for the Santam Group.

**Qualification and Experience**
- The minimum formal qualification for this job is a LLB university degree and admittance as a practicing attorney or advocate in the High Court of South Africa.
- At least eight to ten years working experience in the short-term insurance environment.
- Highly developed negotiating skills and a very thorough working knowledge of insurance law.
- Highly developed research and reasoning skills and the ability to communicate complex legal concepts in a user-friendly format.
- High level of professionalism with the ability to provide legal solutions which are comprehensive, accurate and practical within very tight timeframes.
- Commercial; competition and reinsurance law experience and expertise are an added advantage.

**Skills**
- Commercial orientation
- Interpersonal skills
- Microsoft suite
- Influencing skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to build and maintain good relationships with key stakeholders
- Ability to interpret and analyse information
- High degree of self-management, displaying an organised and measured approach

**Core Competencies**
- Being resilient - Contributing through others- Collaborates - Contributing through others- Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others- Customer focus - Contributing through others- Drives results - Contributing through others**About The Company**
- Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.- Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We are about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.- At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the divisions employment equity targets.


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