Senior Legal Counsel

SUMMARY:

We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Senior Legal Counsel to join our legal team. As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will play a key role in providing expert legal advice and support to our organization. You will be responsible for managing a broad range of legal matters, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations, and...

POSITION INFO:

We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Senior Legal Counsel to join our legal team. As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will play a key role in providing expert legal advice and support to our organization. You will be responsible for managing a broad range of legal matters, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations, and mitigating legal risks. The successful candidate will have a strong background in corporate law, excellent negotiation skills, and the ability to provide strategic legal counsel to senior management.

What you’ll do:

• Review and or draft ICT-related agreements including but not limited to Master Services Agreements, Reseller Agreements, Representation Agreements, and Software.
• Draft agreements that minimize risks and maximize legal rights.
• Provide expert and strategic legal advice to management.
• Evaluate and weigh multiple inputs and impacts of any decision or course of action.
• Review and comment on Government tenders.
• Anticipate issues and estimate risks strategically.
• Identify proactive solutions that will eliminate or mitigate risks.
• Create associations of trust and respect with key stakeholders.
• Deal with external parties (regulators, external counsel, clients, advocates).
• Review client contracts and ensure risk is minimized.
• Engage with the business regularly to understand the contractual requirement and add detailed commercial value to a contractual review/ draft.
• Keep abreast of legislative changes and continuously monitor compliance with statutory obligations.
  

Your Expertise:

• Post-admission experience of at least 8 years at a law firm in SA or as an in-house legal counsel, specializing in Corporate and Commercial work.
• BBEEE position, African male or female preferable.
• Strong commercial legal background dealing with reviewing and drafting all types of commercial agreements.
• Experience in the IT industry is a requirement.
• Experience in the reviewing of Government Tenders is an absolute requirement.
• The CV should indicate at least a few years in each position held.

Qualifications Required:

• Minimum of an LLB Degree.

Personal Attributes:

• Innovative.
• Solution orientated.
• Out-of-the-box thinker.
• Clear analytical thinking and innovation.
• Creativity and initiative.
• Leadership and social influence.
• Emotional Intelligence.
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking.
• Ability to work independently and/or work as a member of a team.
• Upholds ethics and values acts with integrity.
• Strategic and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Drive for results, focus on customer needs and satisfaction, set high standards for quality and quantity and consistently achieve set goals.
  

Other information applicable to the opportunity:

• Permanent position
• Location: Johannesburg – Full time. Hybrid work model