Mission/ Core purpose of the Job
The Manager: Legal Affairs and Contract Management will provide management of Bayobab with comprehensive commercial legal service and act as liaison between MTN Group, FiberCos, Operating Companies, suppliers, and customers.
The Manager: Legal Affairs and Contract Management will support in the following areas:
- Provide legal support and counsel to various internal Bayobab stakeholders.
- Manage contractual relationships across Bayobab departments.
- Manage commercial transactions between Bayobab and other OPCOs and trade partners.
Provide support in developing relevant reports to Group on various projects.
Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)
The Mgr: Legal Affairs and Contract Management will be accountable to achieve the following objectives:
- Negotiating commercial interests across various functions and roles within Bayobab
- Managing and participating in various projects undertaken by different departments from a legal perspective.
- Negotiating and facilitating legal and contractual framework with other parties whilst maintaining uniform standards adopted at Group level.
- Manage legal relationships between Bayobab and its trade partners.
- Effective drafting and reviewing of contracts from a qualitative perspective.
- Ensuring best practices on usage of processes and procedures in Bayobab.
- Drive compilation of common contract templates and encourage common usage.
- Negotiating, drafting, and implementing various infrastructure and cable agreements.
- Providing legal advice and opinions and attending to all legal queries from various departments.
- Providing legal support in respect of compliance with applicable legislation.
- Advising management on new legislation and the impact thereof on the business.
- Liaising with external law firms that provide legal support to the MTN and ensure feedback filters through to the intended recipients.
- Managing the contracting end-to-end process and maintaining legal reports and updates to various stakeholders.
- Attending to any other legal task as assigned by the legal department.
Role Deliverables
- Support to internal and external stakeholders
- Effective drafting and review of contracts
- Regulate the relationship between Bayobab and MTN Group.
- Encourage consistent use of agreed templates between the Bayobab and its trade partners.
- Sensitively driving compliance in Bayobab.
- Project updates and reporting
Job Requirements (Education, Experience and Competencies)
Education:
- LLB or other recognized law degree, admittance to a Bar council
- Fluent in English (Knowledge of French language will be an advantage)
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years post qualification working experience which includes:
- Corporate and Commercial law experience working in a large local or international law firm or in-house legal department.
- Experience in a telecommunication and infrastructure environment.
Competencies:
- In-depth knowledge of laws and legal principles
- In-depth global commercial awareness
- Knowledge of the Telecoms industry and practices
- A working knowledge of business practices and working knowledge of IT tools for business.
- Team player. Attention to detail.
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