Location - Vijayawada, Vizag, Nellore, Warangal, Mumbai, Ghaziabad, Delhi NCR, Gurugram, Udaipur, Bhilwara, Ajmer, Kota, Pune, Nagpur & Nasik
Job Title/Grade: Cluster Manager-Legal
Department: Legal
Grade: 3A
Age group: 22- 28 Yrs
Reporting To: Regional Manager
Legal Team Size: NA
General Job Responsibility:
- Responsible for routine legal to ensure compliance with Company's policies, internal control, procedure and applicable laws and regulations.
- Liaison with lawyers
- Good knowledge of labor laws, contract laws and property related laws
- Sound knowledge of drafting, vetting, all types of agreements, (including lease, leave & license) and other documents;
- Carrying out property due diligence;
- Well Conversant with Litigation. Attending hearing
- Ensure / Monitor Statutory compliance, VAT, Excise Duty, Service tax, TDS.
Principal Accountabilities:
Strategic:
- Researching and advising on local and international law issues and relevant legislation affecting the agencies in the cluster.
- Managing litigation portfolio and supervision of external legal counsel and other professional advisers as necessary and managing the associated costs.
- Overseeing litigation portfolio in the daughter countries (DC) and providing guidance to Legal & Claims officers in DC to ensure legal costs are optimized.
- Ensure that the P&I Club is notified on any matter (writs) in the cluster before referring to External Solicitors, follow up on all matters and provide assistance/information needed until the conclusion of such matters.
- Managing systems and processes to ensure efficiency in the administration of the legal function
- Act as legal business partner by providing legal advisory support on corporate and legal issues to Cluster Management, all functions in the cluster.
- Legal advisory support to the Management and organization at all levels on a variety of corporate and legal issues.
- Act as the key corporate secretarial support within Maersk Nigeria Limited for the Senior Management and the Statutory Meetings.
- Ensuring that any contractual and legal matters affecting the Agencies in the cluster are properly addressed.
Tactical:
- Investigation, handling, documentation and recovery of claims filed against and by the company in Nigeria.
- Develop cluster claims guidelines and ensure best practice sharing within the Cluster in terms of service recovery and legal processes.
- Training and education of new and old employees on claims handling processes.
- Work in close collaboration with Centre and Regional legal team to ensure effective & efficient handling of claims & legal matters in the cluster.
Supervisory:
- Responsible for the preparation and provision of the board file and AGM file for the Company's statutory meetings to the board members and/or shareholders.
- Proactive management on corporate governance and statutory compliance administration.
- Supervision of the procurement and admin functions
Person Profile:
Educational Qualification:
- Bachelor degree holder in Law, Law/ Legal
Experience:
- Minimum 7 years- relevant experience. Industry experience is an advantage.
- Preference will be given to Banking & NBFC industry candidates
Specific Skills:
- Strong interpersonal, teamwork and communication skills.
- Experience as - Leader of Others- and with a proven track-record of developing and coaching direct reports.
- Attentive to details and results-oriented.
- Has a good sense of urgency with strong capabilities to work with tight deadlines
- Fluent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Solutions mindset
- High degree of initiative, a self-starter
- Comfortable building relationships.
- Assertive with Good interpersonal skills.
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