Legal Superintendent at an Offshore Logistics Company - Busy Minds Consult

Busy Minds Consult - Our client, a leading Offshore Logistics company with an exponential growth plan, is seeking the services of an experience professional to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Superintendent

Location: Lagos

Objective

• To provide timely, reliable and efficient legal advice and support to all departments of the Company on contractual rights and obligations; and provide clarification of contract terms and conditions.
• To ensure that the Company complies with regulatory and statutory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• To support the Company’s leadership in managing and mitigating contractual and commercial risks.

Client Contract:

• Handle a range of issues related to contract management, including the review, interpretation, and application of client agreements and related documents.
• Conduct and maintain an extensive inventory of all client agreements and create a database of all rights and obligations created by such agreements which require further action and follow-up.
• Undertake basic or extensive review of all client agreements and related legal documentations; identify important issues, similarities, and inconsistencies and propose appropriate amendments.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Compliance:

• Monitor, ensure adherence to, and identify changes in legislations.
• Prepare a broad range of compliance documents relating to the Company.
• Match up all relevant regulatory and statutory requirements with Company business activities in accordance with ISO 9001:2015 QMS standards.
• Provide legal and compliance support to the internal clients by providing best in class counselling, training, negotiations, planning, processes and procedures
• Conduct periodic regulatory, anti-corruption and anti-bribery compliance reviews; prepare and submit mandatory reports required; and properly document all regulatory compliance matters.
• Monitor and update corporate legal risk register in line with ISO 9001:2015 QMS Standards.

Competence Requirements

• High ethical awareness and integrity.
• High level of business acumen and customer orientation.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure and autonomously where required; and multitask.
• Ability to quickly build and maintain relationships at senior levels, both externally and internally.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills to offer a professional, authoritative and confident service.
• Ability to solve problems and use initiative to improve legal and commercial situations.
• Highly motivated team player, analytical, professional and proactive.
• Inter-cultural skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Knowledge in risk management, Compliance and ISO9001:2015
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office software
• Presentation and report writing
• Effective written and verbal communication
• Organisational skills, with the ability to prioritize and respond at short notice;
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Leadership skills
• Interpersonal and Excellent customer service skills
• Quality management best practice
• Self-Motivated and willing to learn and initiate new processes;
• The resilience to deal with periods of work pressure and diplomacy to deal with difficult employees, customers, contactors and others in the course of their duties;
• Reliable, with the ability to maintain high levels of service;
• Motivated with the ability to effectively work on own initiative;
• Physical fitness and mental agility to successful function for an extended period if required

Education and Qualifications

• LL.B. (Hons) with minimum of Second class lower division from a reputable University.
• B.L. from the Nigerian Law School.
• A valid NYSC discharge or exemption certificate will be required.

Experience:

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in the practice of law, including legal analysis, research and writing is required.
• Experience at a leading law firm dealing with corporate and commercial law or maritime law; particularly in the preparation, review, negotiation and documentation of commercial contracts

Salary
TBD

Application Closing Date
13th January, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the "Job Title" as subject of the email.

Note

• The dates of each of your work experience should include the start month and year and stop month and year. E.g. July 2013 May 2018. Only selected candidates will be contacted.