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
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
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