Head of Legal
vor 16 Stunden
**Main Purpose**:Overall responsibility for legal matters across the organization globally, ensuring seamless delivery of legal services and management of legal risks. This includes the provision of proactive, in-depth, legal, business-focused advice to the business, management of legal risks, development and leadership of the legal team, and implementation of initiatives and processes in order to set standards improve contracting and contract management. Reinforce a culture of integrity, quality and responsibility across the business.
**Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities**:
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Provide expert and strategic legal advice to all levels of the organization (including senior leadership team) in relation to its global businesses
- Actively lead and develop the legal function promoting a culture of professional development and continuous improvement; ensuring comprehensive reporting of legal issues to the CEO
- Anticipate issues and estimate risks strategically, identifying proactive solutions to eliminate or mitigate such risks
- Identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement to increase overall efficiency of the legal function
- Work closely with relevant stakeholders across the organization to ensure delivery of the business’ objectives and priorities, including evaluation of legal and commercial risks and enabling risk-based decisions drafting, reviewing, negotiating and advising on a variety of commercial contracts across the organization; Advising on complex intercompany agreements
- Provide legal leadership on dispute prevention and resolution and management of claims and litigation issues
- Support M&A transactions and joint ventures; selecting and managing external counsel in various jurisdictions, ensuring cost efficient use of external resources and effective delivery of legal services;
- Keep abreast of relevant legal and regulatory developments, ensuring legal compliance across the organization
- Develop and supporting the roll-out of contract best practices
- Develop and deliver training on legal topics as required and sharing of knowledge and best practice within the legal team and more widely as relevant
- Providing day-to-day legal advice on issues arising.
**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:
- Qualifications & Experience:
- Qualified as an English solicitor, or qualified lawyer in another common law jurisdiction with strong experience and track record working using English law;
- Experience working in civil law jurisdictions of advantage;
- Minimum of 15 years’ experience gained at a law firm and/or multinational company, with at least 5 years’ experience in a leadership position, including leadership of remote teams;
- Experience working in an international environment and matrix organisations;
- Experience of M&A, commodity sales contracts, trade disputes and retail;
- Experience working in emerging markets, in particular in Africa.
**Skills**:
- Strong business mindset and problem solving attitude, with strong aptitudes to identify and foster pragmatic approaches
- Ability to independently handle complex situations and transactions
- Ability to influence and persuade key stakeholders, shareholder representatives and senior counterparties
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment and to manage workload and priorities as part of a team and work under pressure
- Strong communication skills, with an ability to communicate in a concise and clear manner
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in a multinational, multicultural environment
- Fluency in English; working knowledge of any other language (French/Spanish) would be an advantage
**Key Relationships and Department Overview**:
- Board and ARSC of the group
- CEOs of each business lines
- Other shared services peers e.g. HR, Finance, Tax, etc
- Externally, advisors and customers and partners
About Us
Impala Terminals owns and operates a network of ports, port terminals and warehouses which, combined with its transport assets, provide end-to-end logistics solutions for dry and liquid bulk cargoes, general cargo and containers. Impala Terminals through its own operations and its branded assets employs over 1,500 members of staff and owns and operates 28 facilities across 20 countries around the world.
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