Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Commercial at IHS Towers

Reports To: Head, Corporate Commercial
Location: Lagos

Summary

• Aid senior management’s decision-making through identification, analysis and assessment of legal risks and provision of legal guidance, advice and opinions to relevant departments in order to guide their transactions and dealings with third parties, government institutions, and regulators.

Responsibilities

• Identify, own and mitigate commercial risks arising from proposed deals through provision of creative legal commercial solutions.
• Support Supply Chain function in negotiating and standardizing key commercial contracts.
• Draft and negotiate high-volume business contracts and commercial agreements such as Confidentiality, Infrastructure Sharing, Service Level, and Master Lease Agreements.
• Work closely with business teams to assist in negotiations, summarize and communicate legal concepts, and draft contracts.
• Advise functional teams to enable understanding of legal contexts, complex agreement structures, issues and risks, approval processes, company policies and procedures, and business strategies.
• Serve as lead counsel in supporting internal functions across a wide range of commercial transactions with both vendors and customers, dealing with customers needing complex non-standard products and services, as well as other third parties in business development projects in accordance with company guidelines and policies, thus contributing towards achievement of company growth targets through closure of profitable business agreements.
• Demonstrate thorough understanding of principles of all legal issues relating to asset transfers and regulatory issues within the context of multi-jurisdictional projects as well as ability to recognize when and whom to escalate issues to and whom to engage for specialist advice.
• Understand regulatory/ competition issues sufficiently to spot issues in proposed bid submissions and/ or supplier negotiations and mitigate risk via contractual means by advising on effective compliance measures and/ or advocacy.
• Create commercial business models which are appropriate to individual customer’s requirements while ensuring protection of IHS’s interests.
• Collaborate with other functional areas to ensure consistency and competitiveness in contractual approaches.
• Develop clear understanding of customers’ requirements and champion the requirements within the business, and, where appropriate, drive these requirements to changes in contracting practices.
• Provide legal advice and guidance regarding all aspects of business operations, policies, and practices.
• Maintain and improve relationships with other teams across IHS Legal Department.
• Develop clear understanding of customers’ requirements and champion the requirements within the business, and, where appropriate, drive these requirements to changes in contracting practices.
• Provide legal advice and guidance regarding all aspects of business operations, policies, and practices.
• Maintain and improve relationships with other teams across IHS Legal Department.

Requirements
Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Law; Master’s will be an added advantage.
• Minimum of +6 years’ relevant work experience.

Functional Competencies:

• Business Ecosystem
• Client Engagement
• Legal Professional Skills
• Litigation Management
• Vendor Selection & Management
• Financial Acumen
• Analytical Thinking
• Commercial Awareness
• Contract Management
• Service Level Management
• Negotiation
• Business Consulting
• Supply Chain Management.