Legal Advisor at PG Group

Main job purpose

• Drafting and vetting of contracts and provide legal advice and insight to the organisation in order to mitigate risk, gain commercial advantage and be regulatory compliant.

Main Objective

• Reviewing contracts to be entered into by the Group for appropriate terms and conditions, including legal liability and beneficial commercial content.
• Assisting in the provision of proactive legal support to all PG Group operations.
• Drafting contracts from scratch when needed. Setting up and maintaining a master contracts precedent bank to be utilized by the Group in its contractual dealings.
• Keeping up to date with laws relevant to the business to assist with ensuring that business practices, policies and dealings of the organisation meet regulatory requirements. Interpreting law for practical application.
• Provide effective oversight to ensure procurement contracting across the business is managed and available in the central repository.
• Assist the Legal Advisor with ad hoc projects.
• To effectively coach and mentor identified high potential candidates in order to improve skills, support succession plans for key critical and scarce positions, drive staff engagement and retention and ultimately increasing profits through improved capability, performance and productivity.

Critical job requirements

Qualification(s)              

•              Grade 12             
•              Relevant law degree

Knowledge        

•              Relevant legislation and common law    

Skills    

•              Communication skills - Proficient in English          
•              Microsoft Office (Intermediate Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
•              Contract negotiating, drafting and vetting           

Experience                    

•              2 to 4 years of commercial experience  
•              2 to 3 year’s supervisory experience in a legal environment