Manager Legal

Main tasks and responsibilities • Lead the provision of legal advice and guidance on strategic, commercial, contractual, regulatory, and operational matters. • Oversee and provide direction on complex negotiations, agreements, disputes, and sensitive legal matters. • Lead legal support for strategic projects, investments, partnerships, financing arrangements, and major commercial transactions. • Direct legal risk management activities and ensure proactive identification and mitigation of legal exposures. • Provide strategic legal advice, risk assessments and recommendations to executive management on significant business decisions, material legal exposures and emerging legal developments. • Ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, contractual obligations, and organizational requirements. • Oversee litigation, disputes, claims, investigations, and engagement with external legal counsel. • Oversee the development and approval of legal standards, templates, guidance and best practices to ensure consistency and quality of legal advice across the organization • Establish legal standards, templates, guidance, and best practices across the organization. • Monitor legislative and regulatory developments and assess their impact on the organization. • Build and maintain relationships with regulators, external counsel, and key stakeholders. • Support the development of legal awareness and compliance culture across the organization. • Identify and drive improvements in legal service delivery, in co-ordination with Legal Operations & Strategy, to enhance efficiency, responsiveness and effectiveness. . • LLB or equivalent from a reputable university or law school with admission to a recognized civil or common law Bar (or equivalent body), in other words, qualified as a lawyer/solicitor/barrister. Language Excellent written and spoken English is a must. Background and experience Competencies and skills • A minimum of 8-10 years of experience with a recognized law firm and/or in-house legal and compliance function within a recognised corporate entity • Extensive experience in legal advisory, contract negotiations, dispute resolution, and legal risk management. • Proven experience supporting executive management on strategic legal matters. • Strong experience managing external legal counsel and high-value legal matters. Soft: • Ability to align legal priorities with organizational strategy and business objectives. • Ability to lead, coach, and develop high-performing legal teams. • Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities across senior leadership levels. • Strong commercial judgment and decision-making skills. • Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship management capabilities. • Ability to lead change and continuous improvement initiatives. • Demonstrates exceptional integrity, professionalism, and accountability. Technical Competencies: • Ability to lead the provision of strategic legal advice across complex commercial and regulatory matters. • Ability to oversee major negotiations, transactions, disputes, and high-risk legal matters. • Strong knowledge of legal and regulatory frameworks impacting business operations. • Ability to develop and implement legal risk management and compliance programs. • Ability to advise executive management on legal exposures and business implications. • Ability to evaluate emerging legal developments and their organizational impact. • Ability to drive legal excellence and continuous improvement across the legal function.