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
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Provide high quality legal and related advice/analysis on all areas of company business;
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Draft, interpret and negotiate company contracts, letters, filings, and other documentation;
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Manage and co-ordinate SEACOM’s approach towards litigation/other proceedings to which SEACOM is party or potentially party;
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Liaise with other parties’ legal advisors/representatives as required;
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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
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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:
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Implementing and managing appropriate systems and processes for identifying, and monitoring changes to SEACOM’s obligations in a timely manner;
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Apprising staff, management and the Board, as applicable, of the nature of those obligations;
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Providing legal and related advice regarding the actions and measures necessary to secure/facilitate compliance with the aforementioned obligations;
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Development of guidance, policies, handbooks, manuals, etc., as required to secure/facilitate ongoing compliance;
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In conjunction with the Head of Human Resources and the Head of Legal, managing employee ethics training.
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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
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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;
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Act as an escalation point within a Business Group for contractual matters.
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Resolution of referred commercial contractual matters during the contract lifecycle, including escalations of disputed contractual changes
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Drive the contract management process for purposes of complying with internal compliance procedures including the facilitation of a contract management plan and risk log.
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Drive the Contractual aspects of sales offers within the sales team to ensure that contract documentation reflects the agreed contracting strategy and business case.
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Interaction with several internal departments to ensure suitable contractual alignment achieved with sub-contractors/suppliers;
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Taking part in actual contract negotiations and contract closure, using internal support functions for additional support where required;
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Assist in commercial claim disputes and resolutions throughout the project lifecycle;
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Support Contract changes, renegotiations and extensions with customer where required.
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Assist with major contract correspondence with customer.
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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