Legal Graduate at Alcatel-Lucent

General Purpose *

Provides support for work teams or task forces in broad functional/process areas to solve complex and diverse contractual and commercial issues. Applies broad business management knowledge to resolve multi discipline or multi-functional/process problems.

Ensures compliance with the best corporate and legal practices and ensuring effective corporate governance practices

• Main Responsibility Area *
• Key Responsibility * : Provision of High Quality Legal Advice/Services:
• Provide high quality legal and related advice/analysis on all areas of company business;
• Draft, interpret and negotiate company contracts, letters, filings, and other documentation;
• Manage and co-ordinate SEACOM s approach towards litigation/other proceedings to which SEACOM is party or potentially party;
• Liaise with other parties legal advisors/representatives as required;
• Undertake legal research as required;
• Key Responsibility * : Management of External Legal Providers

Manage the sourcing of external legal services;

Instruct and draft briefing material for external providers of legal services;

Manage SEACOM s relationships with external providers of legal services on an ongoing basis, including the cost management of such;

• Key Responsibility: * Ensuring Corporate, Contractual and Regulatory Compliance
• Implement and manage appropriate systems and processes to ensure ongoing compliance with company and director/officer responsibilities and obligations under law, regulation, license, contract and other applicable codes, including,/inter alia/:

o Implementing and managing appropriate systems and processes for identifying, and monitoring changes to SEACOM s obligations in a timely manner;

o Apprising staff, management and the Board, as applicable, of the nature of those obligations;

o Providing legal and related advice regarding the actions and measures necessary to secure/facilitate compliance with the aforementioned obligations;

o Development of guidance, policies, handbooks, manuals, etc., as required to secure/facilitate ongoing compliance;

o In conjunction with the Head of Human Resources and the Head of Legal, managing employee ethics training.

• Where applicable, and where relevant in conjunction with other staff members/management, taking such actions and measures as are necessary to secure/facilitate SEACOM s ongoing compliance with its obligations;
• Key Responsibility: * Provision of Company Secretarial Services
• Driving contract drafting and managing trade-off list. Ensure favourable T&C s for NSN, including facilitating contractual risk management and ensuring contract alignment with existing supplier contracts Maintenance of statutory registers;
• Act as an escalation point within a Business Group for contractual matters.
• Resolution of referred commercial contractual matters during the contract lifecycle, including escalations of disputed contractual changes
• Drive the contract management process for purposes of complying with internal compliance procedures including the facilitation of a contract management plan and risk log.
• Drive the Contractual aspects of sales offers within the sales team to ensure that contract documentation reflects the agreed contracting strategy and business case.
• Interaction with several internal departments to ensure suitable contractual alignment achieved with sub-contractors/suppliers;
• Taking part in actual contract negotiations and contract closure, using internal support functions for additional support where required;
• Assist in commercial claim disputes and resolutions throughout the project lifecycle;
• Support Contract changes, renegotiations and extensions with customer where required.
• Assist with major contract correspondence with customer.
• Support Project Contract manager for clarification of contractual differences and scope clarifications

Generally, do all such things which, although not specifically referred to herein, are necessary and/or required for the due, proper and efficient rendering of the services for the purposes contemplated by this role as well as carrying out all other reasonable and lawful instructions

Qualifications:

Education:

• Law degree

Professional Memberships:

• Recently Admitted Advocate

Other skills and knowledge:

• Knowledge and interest in the telecoms industry within Africa

Languages:

English and French

Travel Requirements:

• None

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