Legal Counsel at Oracle

To provide full range of in-house legal services and manage required legal support for Oracle’s business in East and West Africa, reporting to the Legal Senior Manager in Kenya  
 
Key Objectives / Measures

• Provision of quality legal support and representing Corporate interests
• Internal Customer satisfaction
• Close liaison with Deal Management organization
• Independent handling of major tasks, business and improvement projects
• Implementing and providing training on legal policies and business practices
• Measured by Corporate performance standards.

Legal Resposibilities

• RFPs and contracts reviews.
• Providing all required assistance to the Legal Senior Manager in Kenya as well as to the Legal Managing Counsel in Nigeria
• Provide transactional support to the business, including drafting, vetting and negotiating major/non-standard agreements.
• Respond to adhoc queries, providing appropriate solutions.
• Negotiate commercial contracts and drafting non-standard contractual provisions.
• Identify, analyze and evaluate risks, explaining to the business and proposing solutions.
• Ensure compliance with Oracle business practices, policies, procedures and law.Provide training to other Oracle functions on legal policy and business practices.
• Participate in EMEA-wide initiatives as required
• Develop understanding of Oracle´s products and services
• Corporate housekeeping / company secretarial duties
• Perform all other tasks that are appropriate for and required by an in-house company lawyer and as required by the Manager;

Required Skills

• Superior written and oral communication skills (in English) with an ability to communicate and influence effectively at all evels of the organization
• High-level legal drafting skills (English)
• Integrity and commitment to the highest ethical standards and personal values
• Commercial negotiation experience, ideally in the IT or other hi-tech industry
• Experience in license/Cloud/partnership agreements, general commercial law, RFP’s, general corporate matters, and intellectual property, are strongly preferred
• Practical and creative thinking and problem solving
• Commercial outlook with excellent judgement and the capacity to make decisions and give advice that demonstrates an understanding of the risk/rewards of each situation
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Willingness to travel in Kenya and abroad as required
• Ability to work individually as well as part of a team.
• Basic computer skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Minimum job requirements

• Law degree and professional qualification. 3-5 years and above relevant experience.
• Experience as in-house counsel is a plus
• Previous experience in industry preferred.