Position Summary
1. Provide an optimum solution through a contract review and legal counsel.2. Minimize the company's legal risks by responding to major disputes.
Role and Responsibilities
Contracts:
- Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual reporting.
- Drafting and Review of template agreements
- Review and drafting of AO and SSA e-commerce contracts, sales and supply contracts, service level agreements, logistics and distribution contracts, third party and vendor contracts.
- Specialised Project work in relation to contract compliance and e-commerce
- Management of legal accounts/invoices and processing of payments
- Update and maintain contract review and completion statistics for management presentations
- Prepare and present presentations for Senior Management and other internal stakeholders (where required)
- Liaising with and the oversight of external attorneys in relation to Contracts.
- Draft, review and negotiate Contracts across all departments
- Management, reporting and utilisation of Electronic Contracts Management System (“ECMS”)
- Attend weekly and monthly meetings with relevant departments and stakeholders
- Understanding business requirements and effectively mitigating risk
Disputes:
- Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual reporting.
- Provide support and assist with management of both SSA and AO disputes
- Assistance with the management of Government Investigations
- Review and management of customer complaints
- Liaising with and the oversight of external attorneys in relation to disputes.
- Management of external attorneys' invoices and billing
- Reporting and management of Disputes on Samsung internal Disputes and Government Investigations System (GLASS)
Other
- Attend to legal queries from both SSA, SSAP and AO Business units
- Provide support to both the Compliance Lead and Governance Lead in relation to both SSA and AO compliance, governance and regulatory issues
- Must be able to travel locally and to African countries when required.
- Conduct internal research and prepare legal opinions for business
- Management of legal accounts/invoices and processing of payments
- Both legal and non-legal administrative work
Skills and Qualifications
Qualifications:
- LLB Law degree.
- Admission as an attorney or Advocate
Experience:
- At least 7 years post-admission experience as a practicing attorney or in a legal advisory capacity dealing with legal commercial issues.
- At least 4 years’ experience as an in-housel legal advisor
- Highly beneficial if the candidate has cross boarder experience in both contracting and disputes