Legal Operations Manager at Simba Corp

The Legal Operations Manager shall manage and oversee the operations of the Legal Department processes and ensure consistent standards and delivery of reputable legal services to the Organization by providing quality team leadership, monitoring risks, ensuring compliance and continuous adherence to legal processes across the Group. With a focus on continuous improvement, the Legal Operations Manager shall be responsible for tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) for the Legal Department, drive innovation with tools like Power BI, and lead change management efforts to enhance operations and ensure compliance across the Group. This role requires strong leadership and a forward-thinking approach to foster a culture of excellence and innovation.

Key Responsibilities

Team Management & Leadership: 

• Receive, inspect, and store incoming parts, ensuring accurate documentation.
• Review the legal strategy periodically to ensure that the Legal Department’s objectives are aligned with the overall organization strategy. 
• Provide clear guidance, project plans, and performance feedback to team members while promoting collaboration and efficient workflows across departments.
• Establish and monitor team performance metrics to ensure alignment with organizational objectives, drive continuous improvement and ensure services offered by the Legal Team are of high standard and add value to the business.
• Cultivate an inclusive team culture that recognizes achievements, fosters motivation and values innovation, engagement, respect, reward and personal growth within the Legal Department.

Advisory: 

• Review the legal strategy periodically to ensure that the Legal Department’s objectives are aligned with the overall organization strategy.
• Provide legal guidance to internal stakeholders on a range of legal matters including contract review, regulatory interpretation and potential legal risks
• Research emerging and unique legal issues, applicable statutes, judicial decisions, and codes impacting the Group’s business and formulate changes to policies, procedures and processes to address as required.
• Protection of Business Intellectual property through registration of all business-critical brand and trade names and other IPR.

Contract Management: 

• Ensure consistency in the implementation of the document management processes to achieve the desired positive end-result in empowering business interests.
• Protecting the business by taking the lead in the drafting, review, negotiation and execution of all legal documents and ensuring legal agreements and contracts are of exceptional quality, contain standard protection clauses and properly completed and executed.
• Advise management on contract status, legal risks and business terms of various deals.
• Reviewing enactments developments and amendments to the law and ensuring compliance by the Company.
• Review contracts and business relationships and ensure compliance by the Company of agreed terms.

Compliance Management: 

• Develop an annual framework for ensuring legal and regulatory compliance across the Group.
• Actively track and analyze changes to the regulatory environment including relevant laws, regulations and industry standards to identify potential compliance risks and update company policies accordingly.
• Develop and oversee the implementation of effective compliance management strategies to ensure integration of the Organization’s Compliance Management Program into the  Organization’s culture.
• Conduct regular compliance audits and assessments to evaluate adherence to policies and identify areas for improvement including document reviews and data analysis.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure compliance is integrated into daily operations and communicate key compliance updates to EXCO and the Board.
• Develop and implement training programs on legal and compliance requirements including relevant policies and procedures, emerging trends and ethical conduct expectations.
• Undertake continuous risk assessments and create programs to mitigate identified risks with regular reports to the CLPO and the Board on overall impact and effectiveness.
• Manage Litigation – formulate and ensure implementation of legal strategy for litigation faced by the Organization.