Senior Legal Counsel

4 weeks ago

Kempton Park, South Africa DSV Full time

If you are a current DSV employee and interested in a position in another country, please contact your Human Resource representative to discuss the process and requirements of applying.

**DSV - Global transport and logistics**

Location: Kempton Park
Job Posting Title: Senior Legal Counsel
Time Type: Full time

**Minimum Requirements**

Degree in Law: LLB, Bproc or BUirus Degree

Intermediate computer literacy in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Contract management systems

**Job Related Requirements**
- 5 Post Qaulification years relevant experience in a senior position
- Wholistic knowledge of law, including Contract, Corporate, Civil, Interpretation of statutes
- Admission as an Attorney
- Experience in Drafting, Reviewing, and Negotiating Commercial Agreements and Contracts, locally and internationally
- Technical knowledge of legal structures and agreements within logistics industry
- Strong analytical skills and demonstrated ability to understand complex legal concepts
- Knowledge and Experience of Privacy Laws and Regulations with the ability to provide training to key stakeholders
- Proven history of representation and interaction with External Legal Counsel in collections and other matters
- Excellent fluency in English years exposure to business processes
- Leadership Skills
- Problem Solving
- Excellent Communication skills (verbal and non-verbal)
- Must be able to self manage (includes effectively communicating with stakeholders)
- Proven track record of dealing with people at all levels within the organization
- Effective time management

**Added Advantages for this role**

LLM, MBA preferred

Industry knowledge

Strong personality with an ability to get the necessary messages across

**Main purpose of the role**

To partner business by ensuring the delivery of seamless, value added support to DSV. This entails delivering a legal service to the business, which includes, but is not limited to, furnishing and implementing legal advice to management and the business in respect of a wide variety of commercial and corporate law matters, working with external professional advisors, the negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts (including specialised transactional agreements).

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Draft/vet and review a variety of corporate legal contracts.
- Keeping abreast of new/changed legislation and informing the business to ensure understanding of risks and commercial implications.
- Protecting the company’s interest, risk management and compliance with corporate governance, guidelines and procedures.
- Negotiation on behalf of the business in order to attain value.
- Negotiation with third parties to ensure appropriate contractual relationships and minimise risks.
- Identify matters requiring specialist legal input and instruct and liaise with appropriate external counsel.
- Liaise with external attorneys and prepare comprehensive brief to attorneys where necessary.
- Co-ordinating litigation matters with external attorneys and counsel, and interpreting recommendations for the business.
- Drafting legal opinions.
- Conduct legal research of significant legal issues.

**OTHER DUTIES**
- Timely and comprehensive response of assigned tasks
- Execution of projects and day-to-day tasks
- Focus on performance and deadlines
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders

**SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES** (IF ANY)
- Legal Counsel

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