Manager: Contracts at MTN

Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)
Strategy Development and Implementation

• Strategy Development and Implementation
• Assist in the creation of the contracts strategy in line with the overarching business goals
• Ensure effective implementation of the strategy by means of implementation of agreed processes

Contract Management

• End-to-end contract life cycle management (from onboarding to contract retirement)
• Provide legal assistance to the various internal and external stakeholders
• Negotiate, draft, review legal agreements
• Manage and provide legal advice and opinions
• Effective drafting and reviewing of contracts
• Attend to all legal queries from various departments
• Attend to legal task as assigned by legal department
• Manage legal and compliance risk
• Internal and external stakeholder management
• Maintain legal reports and status
• Continuously seek self-professional development to sharpen skills and capabilities in a versatile and evolving landscape
• Prepare relevant contracts template for new or amendments to contracts.
• Review counter party feedback with Legal and business stakeholders.
• Track and project manage contract negotiation cycle until contract signature.
• Proactively manage renewal of existing current agreement in line with approved process.
• Ensure all signed NDAs, GFAs and MSAs are scanned and electronically stored.
• Provide inputs to and ensure adequate risk mitigation and controls regarding the contracts
• Facilitate preparation of proposal on change initiatives on templates,, policies and procedures
• Ensure alignment between GC Legal and Group Legal
• Ensure alignment with performance management KPIs of business stakeholders

Escalations

• Escalate issues that will result in severe time, scope, productivity, and cost or resource impact
• Manage and provide solutions to escalations that have multiple processes / functions impact on critical path of service delivery
• Highlight and report deviations and “breach” of contracts Term and conditions by counter-parties

Legal contracts

• Provide input on legal perspective into the review all projects initiated (internal or global)
• Provide input into the review and finalisation of objectives, targets as applicable
• Provide input into the review key risks, issues and dependencies and set mitigation actions
• Provide input into the facilitation of sign-off / making decisions regarding tactical changes
• Manage and ensure the closing out of contracts related to the policies and templates
• Support business teams close on contracts, by managing any contradictions in standard terms and conditions relative to legal risk management issues

Performance

• Ensure that all contracts are managed based on MTN agreed requirements
• Ensure alignment between Group Legal and GC Legal as per legal risk matrix
• Reporting

Job Requirements (Education, Experience and Competencies)
Education:

• LLB or other recognized law degree
• Admittance to a bar council or professional legal body
• Fluent in English and additional international language is advantageous

Experience:

• 3-5 years relevant working experience, post qualification
• Commercial/Corporate Law experience in a large local law firm or an international law firm or inhouse legal
• Worked across diverse cultures and geographies experience in telecom environment

Industry / Certifications

• Legal degree and professional accreditation

Any other specifications

• Telecommunications industry experience
• Africa multi-cultural experience
• In depth knowledge of laws and legal principles
• A working knowledge of business practices and working knowledge of IT tools for business
• Effective oral and written communications
• Work under pressure -Attention to detail -Team player
• Organised and self motivated

 Competencies:

 Knowledge   

• Ambiguity within the workplace
• Analysis
• Complexity within the workplace
• Conflict management
• Influencing others
• Information processing
• Pan Africa multi-cultural organisations
• Problem solving
• Reporting
• Risk management
• Telecommunications industry

Skills  

• Analytical
• Communication
• Continuous improvement
• Data interpretation
• Judgment
• Presentation
• Reporting
• Behavioral Qualities 
• Accountable
• Adaptable
• Agile
• Communication
• Culturally aware
• Get it done
• Innovation
• Inquisitve