Senior Legal Contracts Administrator

**The Person**:
- B.Com (Law) or LLB incorporating Commercial Law &
Corporate Governance (or equivalent.)
- Minimum 3 years commercial experience in a similar role.
**The Job**:
Establish Legal Requirements:
- Draft legal agreements.
- Develop new legal agreements, including drafting bespoke agreements.
- Final review of master legal agreements which have been populated with contract details and/or proposed amendments from the business units and draft legal response to third parties.
- Liaise with Corporate Head Office Legal department in respect of the above requirements when necessary.
Review and Approve Legal Agreements:
- Review third party legal agreements (including vendor agreements, quotations, terms and conditions, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, indemnity forms, POPIA consent and data processing agreements) and provide timeous feedback.
- Review legal agreements and identify commercial and legal risks.
- Draft response to third parties on legal agreements reviewed and assessed and inform business units timeously.
- Review proposed amendments to master legal agreements by third parties and provide timeous feedback.
Reporting:
- Communicate monthly and quarterly reporting deadlines for litigation report and bad debts register to business units in a timeously.
- Communicate with External Attorneys.
- Draft the monthly and quarterly litigation report (including matters for Board reporting).
- Final review of the quarterly contracts register for Board packs.
- Update the finance bad debt register with monthly progress on matters handled directly by the role.
- Legal and divisional reports and updates, when necessary for approval by Manager.
Litigation:
- Review and amend all legal correspondence concerning litigation matters.
- First line liaison with Corporate Head Office Legal department and External Attorneys.
Intellectual Property:
- Manage the Intellectual Property portfolio for the division, ensuring that the Intellectual Property portfolio is accurate and complete.
- Liaise with Company Secretary.
General Administration:
- Ensure that outstanding agreements and agreements in progress are timeously followed up with business units to facilitate timely close out.
- Provide up to date feedback on agreements to management.
Continuous Improvement:
- Identify improvement opportunities and make recommendations for improvements.
- Participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives.
Other:
- Research specific legal issues affecting the business and advise management on optimal legal position.
- Draft legal letters, legal notices and correspondence.
- Manage legal database records.
- Manage statutory information records.