Legal Manager - Tsebo Facilities Solutions

Duties & Responsibilities

Your Key performance areas will include but not be limited to the following:

• Draft, review and edit all contract proposals for completeness, accuracy, legal compliance and adherence to the appropriate terms and conditions and coordinate remedial actions as required to ensure that Tsebo Facilities performs its obligations in accordance with the signed contract/agreement and ensuring that TFSs interests are legally protected.
• Advise on and prepare the relevant delegations of authority on behalf of TFS (as per the Tsebo framework) to ensure that mandates are carried out within the prescribed delegated authorities in order to avoid unnecessary financial losses and litigation arising from non-compliance with Tsebos corporate governance principles.
• Negotiate specific contractual issues and agreements with external entities on prospective business ventures and working relations on behalf of TFS by providing legal advice and setting out conditions to be included in the agreements to ensure that all agreements comply with legal requirements and that proper risk management measures have been considered.
• Continue to build in-house TFS legal expertise with regard to PPP contracts
• Support and advise the business with any commercial claims against TFS, related risk and how to mitigate the risk.
• Provide accurate written & verbal legal opinions to Management regarding policies, procedures, and all business/operational issues as well as all transactions which TFS enters into or concludes with third parties.
• Serve as a principal point of liaison with external legal practitioners and other regulatory bodies for TFS.
• Develop, manage and maintain relationships (in collaboration with Group Legal Director) with the key stakeholders,
• Provide advice on and create awareness to management regarding legislative and other regulatory developments impacting on the business of TFS.
• Ensure proper implementation and maintenance of a Contract management system.
• Manage overall commercial legal risk for TFS in conjunction with Group Legal Director
• Ensure that insurance related matters are contracted correctly, and incidents reported timeously
• Keep Group Legal Director appraised of legal risks and litigation facing TFS and consult with Group Legal Director on approach to be adopted.
• Brief external legal counsel when required with approval of Group Legal Director
• Overseeing the Divisional company secretariat duties responsibilities
• Support TFS across the various Boards represented in terms of legal support
• Identification of relevant risks within agreements and managing associated mitigations
• Maintenance of EXCO risk register
• Management of TFS Risk and Compliance functional area

Skills and Competencies

• Strong ability to understand the Tsebo Facilities operations, strategy and role players to be able to obtain the best results for the Company and reduce its risk
• Contract drafting, negotiation and finalisation.
• A strong business and commercial acumen to ensure legal advice is fit for purpose.
• In-depth knowledge of and experience in Commercial Law & Contract Law.
• Experience in the legal work-stream of large projects, specifically Public-Private Partnerships.
• Providing legal support to other support services such as Finance, Procurement and Commercial.
• Solid experience in contract management across multiple spheres and disciplines including understanding and communicating intent and implications to non-legal team members as well as negotiation and renegotiation of contracts
• Experience in managing contracts that form part of a project financing transaction
• Commercial Corporate law legal experience
• Experience in integrating both commercial and legal issues in a business environment
• Understanding of Facilities Management business or the Services industry will be an added advantage.
• Confidentiality the role requires the handling of very sensitive financial, strategic and personnel information

Qualifications

• Admitted Attorney BCom Law
• Minimum 5 - 8 years post admission experience (in-house, law firm, etc) of which 3 years must preferably have been spent as an in- house Legal Advisor in a similar size company.