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Purpose

To provide specialist legal advice and support in areas of specialisation, enabling the provision of sound legal consultation services, with a primary focus on procurement contracts.Reporting to the Lead Specialist: Contracts and Corporate Transactions, as a team member of the IAM  Legal team.

Qualification and Experience

• An admitted attorney or advocate
• LLB / Bachelors of Law degree
• 3-5 years’ experience in financial services
• Working knowledge and understanding of the insurance and financial service sector
• An understanding of relevant insurance and financial services legislation

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting, vetting and reviewing various Group contracts with a special focus on procurement contracts.
• Providing subject matter expertise in respect of procurement contracts for the Group to ensure legal soundness and effective execution of agreements.
• Review/draft contractual obligations in a way that delivers the objectives required in the contract.
• Provide expert advice to business on various legal and technical matters in line with legal framework and best practice.
• Provide clear and effective writing, in order to support professional communication internally within Liberty and externally
• Be proactive in contractual negotiations in order to mitigate risk and achieve cost effective solutions to situations
• Negotiate in a timely manner to provide cost effective solutions for the company and its customers within a range of more complex and/or unfamiliar situations
• Ensure that legal documents are executed in accordance with relevant industry legislation and requirements
• Guide others towards effective and efficient contract management practice. Report noncompliance and assists in implementing corrective measures
• Keep abreast of changes and new legislation and developments within the insurance industry

Additional Key Responsibilites

• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal/external stakeholders that builds strong relationships and creates a favorable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles
• Manage interdependent functional activities, and direct best-practice priorities, standards and procedures to ensure efficiency
• Provide advice to business on various legal and technical matters in line with legal framework and best practice
• Attending to general legal queries and providing general legal advice
• Researching complex legal matters and give input into business projects
• Identify and communicate current and anticipated legal issues or risks
• Work collaboratively across Liberty to provide excellent and effective legal advice
• Contribute to a TCF service excellence culture, which builds positive relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service

Interpersonal Skills

• Cultivates and manages objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including external attorneys and counsel, industry bodies and regulators and act as ambassador of the organisational brand
• Developing and maintaining ongoing working relationships, networks and partnerships, requiring personal interaction and mutual support to help achieve business goals
• Effectively meet client needs, understanding and exceeding client expectations and requirements using the relevant technical skills, business acumen and optimal resources
• Applying effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication methods to achieve desired results
• Presents ideas effectively to individuals and groups
• Understands team dynamics and uses flexible interpersonal style to contribute to the effective functioning of teams and facilitate the completion of team goals

Skills

• Commercial thinking and business acumen with an awareness of commercial objectives of the organisation
• A good working knowledge of the legislation and regulations impacting the financial services sector
• Ability to proactively identify issues that may affect the business
• Ability to negotiate
• Demonstrates an understanding of and is able to apply the skills and tactical awareness necessary to achieve effectual negotiations.
• Uses a range of strategies to achieve desirable outcomes.
• Makes sound decisions based on the available information, own experience and consideration of all possible outcomes within a range of more complex and/or unfamiliar situations.
• Ability to effectively manage working relationships with team members as well as internal and external clients.
• Meet tactical and operational needs by identifying, diagnosing and/or addressing problems of a complex nature in own discipline.
• Understand that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences. Reviews others' documents for clarity and impact. Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction, etc.
• Deliver exceptional legal service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate legal solutions.