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Legal Manager – Centralized Legal – (2500001J)
Job Purpose and Key responsibilities
Job Purpose:
This role works with the legal management team in the provision of legal advisory services and ensuring effective management of legal and contractual risks.
Key responsibilities:
- Provide exceptional legal support for Group Operations to the Director Legal and Senior Leadership, ensuring that the Group activities and initiatives comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
- Advise the segments on all matters requiring legal interpretation; provide Legal Advisory on requested/assigned matters through the provision of Legal Opinions, Presentations and participation in internal/external meetings.
- Overseeing and managing all any litigation that the Group may be involved in.
- Manage all legal obligations and responsibilities of the organization to ensure all business activities are compliant with the law by providing pro-active and/or strategic legal solutions to business problems, and assist to navigate complex legal and regulatory frameworks.
- Provide legal advice to the company on all legal matters including regulators and other parties. In particular, identify legal risks related to business operations, new products, services, or acquisitions; and ensuring legal protections for the organization are in place.
- Undertake Legal project management for key projects across the group, advising on legal aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions that the Group may be interested in.
- Manage and supervise external lawyers representing the company through efficient processes of legal panel management as well as empanelment and Service Level Life cycle management.
- Consolidated Legal Reporting for all group entities and effective management of reports across the group.
- Collaborate with functions and international business to manage legal risks..
- Keep abreast on upcoming laws and regulations ,providing and interpreting legal information, conducting training and disseminating appropriate legal requirements to staff and advise the business on implications.
- Initiate and formulate legal policies, procedures and manuals from a groupwide perspective.
- Reviewing all contracts or any other documentation where the Group has committed itself and assessing legal implications that need to be brought to the senior management’s attention.
- Preparing, reviewing and modifying contractual instruments and any other documentation assigned and assess legal implication that need to be brought to the attention of executive management to assist and support various business activities.
- Conduct legal research and investigation, develop oral and written advice and present recommendations to management.
- Ensure compliance and up to date records of all the SPV’s, LLP’s and Trademarks within the segment.
- Ensure Compliance with audit recommendations related to centralised legal.
- Ensure proper custody of Group LLPs, Original Titles ,Original Trademarks Certificates and register, contracts, project files and related documentation.
- Effective Management and implementation of legal strategy in disputes through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, case management, review of pleadings, preparation of witnesses and attendance of court hearings.
- Managing the group’s intellectual property portfolio, ensuring that IP rights are protected and enforced, and advising on the appropriate IP strategy for the Group.
- Advising on employment matters including labor relations, employee rights, benefits, and workplace disputes
- Advising on the company’s Sustainability/Impact initiatives and ensuring they align with legal requirements and ethical standards.
- Manage Legal documents and records and facilitate execution of legal documents in line with the Contract Management Policy.
- Facilitate and participate in training programmes initiated by the Legal Department.
- Assist in Board support activities such as taking minutes during Board and/or Committee meetings; and other secretarial tasks as requested from time to time.
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
- Delegated authority; as per the approved delegated authority matrix.
Knowledge, experience and qualifications required
Knowledge, experience and qualifications required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Law.
- Master’s degree in Law (added advantage).
- Diploma in Law.
- Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
- Possess a valid practising licence.
- 7-10 years’ post qualification experience in a busy commercial organization.
Key Competencies:
- In-depth understanding of corporate and commercial law.
- Strategic thinking and business acumen.
- Ability to initiate and drive-change.
- Legal writing and drafting – proficiency in communicating effectively through presentations.
- High Performer and Highly motivated.
- Attaches significant value to integrity and ethical conduct.
- Solution-oriented and innovative.
