Legal Counsel Southern Africa

4 days ago

Centurion, South Africa NOKIA Full time

**Come create the technology that helps the world act together**

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world. We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

**The team you’ll be part of**

**What you will learn and contribute to**
- Lead all legal support to the business in Southern Africa.
- As part of the legal department’s dynamic resourcing plan, provide support to Nokia’s other regional business
- Providing legal advice on a wide range of agreements with the customers and other business partners
- Provide legal training and education to business colleagues on Nokia policies, commercial law, compliance and other relevant legal matters for the sub-region and company
- Run multiple legal risk management initiatives in the sub-region to install a positive, world class legal compliance culture and full adherence to internal and external governance requirements
- To review current processes in the organization, identify improvements and lead the change process
- Coordinate with all functions in identifying, developing and implementing improvements in line with Nokia standards, processes and policies

**Key Responsibilities/ Deliverables/ Primary functions**
- Providing legal advice in all areas of the organisation, including but not limited to corporate matters, finance, human resources, procurement, safety, security and sustainability issues
- Support in the development and maintenance of a corporate governance framework, which shall include board and committee support
- Work with the executive, sales, and operations teams to improve forms, legal and compliance policies, processes
- Manage and advise on litigation matters
- Support the sales and operations teams in responding to clients’ and suppliers’ contracting requirements to achieve commercial objectives
- Support in the review of complex contracting and advice on how to mitigate risks
- Support the business on regulatory and audit issues
- Have a working understanding of applicable legislation and/ or regulations including telecommunications, data privacy, labour laws, anti-corruption and company related legislation
- Drive value through drafting, review, negotiation and implementation of client and supplier contracts
- Manage relationships and engagements with external law firms, to ensure best results
- Support in ethics and compliance reviews and investigations
- To anticipate and manage the legal risks connected with or resulting from the business strategy and operations
- To secure compliance of business operations with relevant laws and regulations
- To pro-actively create and maintain awareness of business employees for compliance with relevant laws and regulations
- Support on Company secretarial responsibilities and statutory compliance
- Proactively manage legal risks arising from complex business transactions
- Provides legal guidance in tenders alongside the contract management and other functions
- Provide legal guidance and support to Nokia’s business for day-to-day activities and work with the MEA L&C team as part of the legal department’s dynamic resourcing plan, to provide support to Nokia’s other regional business
- Unquestionable level of integrity with the ability to work as an enabler to the business in line with company policy and procedures

.**Your Skills and Experience**
- Common Law Based Jurisdiction
- LLM; other post graduate legal or business degree / specialization
- 8 - 12 years PQE
- Excellent English drafting and communication skills
- Experience of working in a multi-national or regional company legal department.
- Excellent academic record and working references / credentials
- Experience in ethics and compliance, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and UK Bribery Act
- Experience in the IT, technology, projects, software, telecommunications industry.
- Work experience in the Southern Africa region
- Very strong individual contributor
- Strong leadership and business relationship skills
- Experienced in commercial, technology, IPR, business, labour, contract and competition law.
- Experienced in negotiating and drafting infrastructure and technology, business development, including those agreements covering a number of markets
- Excellent communication (oral and written) skills
- Fluent in written and oral English.
- Ability to interact effectively and professionally with all levels of management and third parties

**Key Internal Interfaces**:

- Effective contributing member of the Southern Africa, MEA and Global L&C teams.

**Complexity**:

- Ability to provide legal guidance and support to the business in a complex sector and region
- Balancing the willingness to

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