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MTN Group Limited entered the telecommunications scene at the dawn of South Africa’s democracy, in 1994. In 1998, we began our expansion by acquiring licences in Rwanda, Uganda and Swaziland. Since then, we continued to grow, with a view of bringing world-class telecommunications and digital services to markets across Africa and the Middle East. Throug...
Mission/ Core purpose of the Job
The Manager: Legal Affairs and Contract Management will provide management of Bayobab with comprehensive commercial legal service and act as liaison between MTN Group, FiberCos, Operating Companies, suppliers, and customers.
The Manager: Legal Affairs and Contract Management will support in the following areas:
- Provide legal support and counsel to various internal Bayobab stakeholders.
- Manage contractual relationships across Bayobab departments.
- Manage commercial transactions between Bayobab and other OPCOs and trade partners.
Provide support in developing relevant reports to Group on various projects.
Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)
The Mgr: Legal Affairs and Contract Management will be accountable to achieve the following objectives:
- Negotiating commercial interests across various functions and roles within Bayobab
- Managing and participating in various projects undertaken by different departments from a legal perspective.
- Negotiating and facilitating legal and contractual framework with other parties whilst maintaining uniform standards adopted at Group level.
- Manage legal relationships between Bayobab and its trade partners.
- Effective drafting and reviewing of contracts from a qualitative perspective.
- Ensuring best practices on usage of processes and procedures in Bayobab.
- Drive compilation of common contract templates and encourage common usage.
- Negotiating, drafting, and implementing various infrastructure and cable agreements.
- Providing legal advice and opinions and attending to all legal queries from various departments.
- Providing legal support in respect of compliance with applicable legislation.
- Advising management on new legislation and the impact thereof on the business.
- Liaising with external law firms that provide legal support to the MTN and ensure feedback filters through to the intended recipients.
- Managing the contracting end-to-end process and maintaining legal reports and updates to various stakeholders.
- Attending to any other legal task as assigned by the legal department.
Role Deliverables
- Support to internal and external stakeholders
- Effective drafting and review of contracts
- Regulate the relationship between Bayobab and MTN Group.
- Encourage consistent use of agreed templates between the Bayobab and its trade partners.
- Sensitively driving compliance in Bayobab.
- Project updates and reporting
Job Requirements (Education, Experience and Competencies)
Education:
- LLB or other recognized law degree, admittance to a Bar council
- Fluent in English (Knowledge of French language will be an advantage)
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years post qualification working experience which includes:
- Corporate and Commercial law experience working in a large local or international law firm or in-house legal department.
- Experience in a telecommunication and infrastructure environment.
Competencies:
- In-depth knowledge of laws and legal principles
- In-depth global commercial awareness
- Knowledge of the Telecoms industry and practices
- A working knowledge of business practices and working knowledge of IT tools for business.
- Team player. Attention to detail.
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