Contracts Specialist

### **Job Advert Summary** We are seeking a Contracts Specialist to provide expert guidance on commercial legal and contractual requirements, ensuring compliance and minimizing risk across the division. The role involves advising on litigious matters, supporting the business in handling complex legal challenges, and working closely with the Legal and Contracts Manager on strategic initiatives.### **Minimum Requirements** * BCom (Law) or LLB incorporating commercial law and corporate governance * Admitted Attorney * Minimum 3 years’ commercial legal experience in a similar role, with business and commercial focus **Additional Qualifications:** Company secretarial; Intellectual Property; Governance and Risk Management; and Business administration studies would be beneficial. ### **Duties \& Responsibilities** **Commercial Legal – Customer agreements, Supplier agreements, Leases, etc.** * Draft, vet, negotiate and interpret commercial agreements, legal correspondence and memoranda within defined timelines * Review external commercial agreements and other legal documents received from third parties to advise internal stakeholders on the acceptability thereof and to align it with business goals and divisional and group policies * Provide solution\-driven legal advice, balancing legal risk with commercial objectivesLiaison with business units, divisional managers and Corporate head office legal department to facilitate drafting of complex legal agreements * Apply divisional strategy, governance frameworks, and insurance requirements when structuring contractual positions and escalate deviations with recommended positions and risk assessments * Prepare formal legal risk opinions and position papers for management decision\-making * Negotiate and conclude legal agreements in alignment with business goals applying commercial awareness, business savvy, industry insight, and business acumen * Liaison with Corporate head office legal department in respect of the above requirements and approvals, as necessary * Identify trends in contractual risk and proactively recommend mitigation strategies **Authorised signing of Agreements:** * Ensure that all approved contracts are signed in accordance with the Approval Framework, shareholder agreements and other applicable agreements prior to submission for final signing **Legal database records management:** * Contribute to the contract management process, including weekly status reports) for contracts under designated area of responsibility with the objective of ensuring accuracy and completeness of the contracts register on an ongoing basis * Review of the inputs to the legal contracts register addressed by the Contracts Administrator for contracts under designated area of responsibility, prior to final approval **Statutory information records management:** * Assist with the management of the administration of internal company information schedules, letterheads and statutory details and records on a quarterly basis...