Legal Counsel

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Sage Full time

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At Sage, we recognize that the world of work has rapidly shifted over the last few years, particularly how we work. That is why we have committed to working in a hybrid way going forward. Human connection is an essential ingredient of the 4 principles that make up our Flexible Human Work hybrid framework and we want to be transparent in what that looks like when you join our Sage family. On one hand, our offices will continue to play an important role in our future and serve as a place for spontaneous conversations, connection, collaboration as well as focused time. On the other hand, we have learned to reimagine where and when we work and to unlock that flexibility and innovation for our colleagues offering them the opportunity to work flex across their home, Sage offices or customer sites.
- To provide structured, pragmatic and risk based legal support and act as a legal business partner to those business areas supported by the AMEA team including the Strategic Alliances, Marketing, Corporate Development, Product, Privacy and Commercial Sales.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Under the direction of the Legal Director, AMEA:

- As a valued business partner as a collaborative business partner, deliver end-to-end legal advice to those business areas supported by the AME legal team.
- Demonstrates a sound understanding of Sage's key strategic and functional areas.
- Work collaboratively with other teams within Legal Services to ensure effective and fully aligned end-to-end legal support to wider business colleagues.
- Ensure that governance is adhered to and collaborate with other functional colleagues (e.g. Procurement; Tax; Finance; HR, Risk, Due Diligence, Assurance, Compliance and Company Secretarial) to ensure that legal risk is managed in accordance with Sage risk tolerances.
- Advise, influence and support key stakeholders at all levels across our operations to ensure close alignment between Legal Services and business areas.

Skills, know-how and experience:
Must have:

- Extensive experience of working with businesses to solve their commercial challenges in an effective, practical way.
- Experience in technology and telecommunications industries and experience of negotiating technology contracts is required.
- A track record of delivering commercially sound legal advice to business.
- Positive, pro-active, ‘can-do’ attitude; solutions-orientated; execution focussed.
- Bright, articulate and commercially astute.
- Self-motivated; excellent organisation and time management skills.
- Ability to manage a demanding workload according to competing business priorities; goes the extra mile and does what is necessary to get the job done.
- Capable of co-ordinating multi-territory legal support.
- Excellent at building trusted and strong working relationships.
- High level of integrity with a desire to do the right thing and maintain ethical standards within applicable laws.
- Drive and determination to deliver outstanding results every time.
- Excellent communicator and able to explain complex legal matters clearly.
- Solid analytical and commercial legal skills.
- Works unsupervised producing consistent high quality deliverables.
- Provides pragmatic legal solutions to complicated commercial challenges.
- Good understanding of data privacy and other regulation relevant to Sage.
- Drive and determination to deliver outstanding results in a fast-paced environment.
- A detailed understanding of commercial law is required. In-depth knowledge of other relevant legal disciplines (e.g. data protection; ecommerce; marketing; technology) is also highly desirable.

Technical / professional qualifications:

- A qualified lawyer (Admitted Attorney) with a minimum of between 3- 5 years’ post articles qualification experience within private practice or within a commercial environment.
- Fluent English speaker, additional languages advantageous

Key performance indicators:

- Effective delivery of all required legal accountabilities to a consistently high standard, on time.
- Contribution to success of overall Legal services delivery by identifying and delivering pragmatic solutions.
- Colleagues speak highly of the added value Legal Services brings to Sage.
- Strong relationships built with wider business colleagues.
- Consistently positive feedback from key legal and business stakeholders.


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