Legal Secretary at Dogan's Sugar Limited

Dogan’s Sugar Limited is incorporated in July 2013 in Lagos, Nigeria as a European invested company for the will to produce quality sugar products in Nigeria. The company is a subsidiary of Ata Ltd. Co.; Ukraine’s biggest and market leader cube sugar manufacturing company with more than %70 market share.

To start local manufacturing in Nigeria, our company has opened a new factory in Lagos and started its first commercial production in April, 2014 with a production capacity of 90,000 cartons (2,182.5 Metric Tonnes) per month. Our company applies the latest International food standards for food safety and quality (FSSC 22000). In production of Dogan’s Sugar Cubes, it is only used full automatic high technology European sugar processing lines with zero hand contact with the product. As main raw material, we’re only using R1 grade granulated sugar with vitamin A.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Secretary

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Legal and Compliance
Reports To: MD/CEO

 Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing and completing legal documents – SLAs, MOUs, NDAs, Contracts of sale, Hire Purchase agreement, etc.
• Guide management on regulatory and compliance issues to ensure compliance with legal regulations.
• Implementing and monitoring risk management policies and procedures.
• Protect the company against legal risk and violations.
• Managing all corporate affairs and correspondence on behalf of the company and sister companies.
• Providing supervision to external solicitors hired to assist the corporation with their legal services.
• Convening Board and General Meetings and preparing minutes of meetings.
• Interface with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues and conflicts.
• Representing the company on compliance matters.
• Preparation of statutory documents.
• Support the implementation of organizational policy.
• Representing the corporation before administrative boards.
• Perform other tasks as required.

Competency & Technical Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Law.
• A minimum of 9 years working experience.
• The ability to work under pressure and time constraints to meet deadlines.
• Strong research, verbal and written communication skills.
• Good leadership, organizational, time management and multitasking skills.
• Excellent critical thinking, analytical, reasoning and negotiation skills.

Application Closing Date
8th August, 2022.