Senior Manager, Commercial Legal at MTN

Job Summary:

Responsible for providing expert legal advisory services as well as identify, minimize and mitigate legal risk within the organisation.

This role is also responsible for managing the company’s contractual arrangements regarding drafting, legality, structuring, and ensure that business practices, policies and activities are in accordance with the laws of Ghana

JOB ROLE

• Manage legal risk within the business by taking responsibility for providing legal advice across the business.
• Manage the implementation of legal processes that relate to legal drafting, negotiations, and commercial agreements.
• Oversee the creation of templates and checklists and incorporation of related company policies into contracts.
• Draft and advise on company contracts relating to supplier agreements, employment contracts and authentication of contracts departments.
• Manage in conjunction with external solicitors, all on-going litigation, dispute resolution and settlement matters.
• Identify and remedy complex legal issues within the business
• Lead in creating and maintaining a proactive legal dossier.
• Act in a supporting and advisory capacity to Management and employees in identifying and managing potential legal risk.
• Coordinate legal compliance monitoring and direct risk management efforts related to daily operations in areas including management controls, Ghana law compliance obligations, disclosure issues, reporting requirements and general corporate governance matters.
• Support implementation of internal company policies.
• Support with key input in all efforts towards influencing governmental & regulatory policies affecting the company’s businesses.
• Supervise the development of appropriate responses to employment and other claims.

Context :

• · Technology and Platform business
• · Multiregulation and multifaceted stakeholder management
• · Public Listed Organization
• · Environmental, Social and Governance prioritized
• · Regionalization structure implication
• · Performance driven environment
• · Development of a sophisticated client base (especially high value)
• · Diverse cultural environment
• · Extended workforce management

Foundational Skills Proficiency Required

• Strategic Planning & Thinking
  • Leads and directs a strategic planning team to address and outline the future direction of an organization
  • Establishes strategic performance measures to allow the organization to continually assess and adjust program direction
  • Explain the strategic direction of the organization to others
• Critical Thinking
  • Critically compare different points of view
  • Identifies linkage of actions to achieving outcomes
  • Applies formal methods and strategies to enhance creative thought
  • Effectively analyzes the situation, collects input to make informed decision
• Analytical Thinking
  • Identifies the options and solutions for addressing the problems analyzed
  • Identifies a number of solutions to the problem by identifying and evaluating the various options developed and selects the most effective solution
  • Draws logical and objective conclusions from the given data sets and validates them as the prime cause and contributing causes.
• Decision Making based on Decision Modelling
  • Able to match appropriate solutions to a variety of business needs / demands. Consistently “thinks ahead” when making decisions and seeks to preempt possible solutions
  • Takes ultimate responsibility for key decisions within the areas of responsibility.
  • Strongly contributes to effective problem solving and decision making and is clearly accountable and seeks to effectively manage risk.
  • Ability to build decision models to analyze and solve basic to intermediate problems
• Integrated Analytics
  • Expert in behavioral information and technical data; uses to make a strong contribution to the executive team, the board, for problem solving and decision-making processes.
  • Will seek to influence the organization's strategy, to ensure that the organization has the technical capability to manage and mine big data.

Education

• A Degree in Law
• Professional Law certificate from the Ghana School of Law is a must
• LLM is an added advantage

Experience

• 8 years working experience with at least 5 years in a managerial position in the legal department of a large company.
• Experience must include exposure and direct leadership in:
• Negotiations and drafting of reasonably complex commercial transactions
• Technology Business Experience an advantage.

Professional/Technical competencies:

• Conflict and litigation Management
• Contract Management
• Information Management
• Legal Advice
• Legal Contract Drafting
• Litigation Management
• Policy Design and Development
• Business Process Design and Reengineering
• Reporting
• Research Orientation
• Service Level Agreement Management
• Stakeholder Relations Management
• Telecommunications Business Savvy
• Computer Literacy - Proficient in use of Word, power point, e-mail, internet, photocopiers etc.

Behavioral qualities:

• Ability to manage self and others, good verbal and communication skills, takes and manages accountability
• Energy & Drive – Innovative, Takes initiative, result oriented and develops self consistently, Creativity and Innovation
• Interpersonal Skills - Leadership, customer centricity, collaborative and coaches & develops direct reports
• Personal Skills - Trustworthy, integrity and ethical in dealings
• Operating Skills - Ability to focus on priorities and plans, manages and monitors work effectively
• Organizational Positioning Skills - Good written and verbal communication, commitment to the organization
• Global thinker, Analytical thinking and Problem-solving abilities.
• Influencing and Negotiation skills
• Facilitating skills