Head, Corporate Commercial at IHS Towers

Summary

• The Head, Corporate Commercial will build and maintain strong communication channels with IHS current and potential customers, both externally and internally and also represent and promote IHS by maintaining a presence at professional events and networks.

Personal Profile

• The Individual must be committed to understanding and exceeding our customers’ needs and developing trusted, reliable and collaborative relationships; consistently operating at the highest standards of good ethics.

Responsibilities

• Identify and advise on appropriate contracts and transactions in alignment with the Company’s business and growth plans;
• Ensure that all contractual documents of the Company are in compliance with applicable laws, guideline, regulations and best practice;
• Provide and interpret legal document/opinions/information;
• Lead, deal with, and handle complex and significant legal matters that cut across the business segments of the Company;
• Instruct, manage and support external counsel on legal matters that require external legal services (e.g. high value or complex deals and acquisitions);
• Provide general legal support to other business segments of the Company;
• Develop and maintain an enterprise-wide contract management system, framework contract templates, structures, policies, processes and templates;
• Build effective working relationships with the various business functions within the Company, and with customers to support business decision-making and foster long term customer relationship.

Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• In-depth knowledge and experience of the telecommunication sector preferred;
• Research skills required;
• Business-oriented and computer literate;
• Experienced in negotiating commercial contracts and demonstrate ability to handle and close commercial and legal negotiations with minimal supervision;
• Demonstrated success working in a fast-paced and high-performing, business results-driven corporate environment;
• Demonstrated ability to think and decide quickly, and to communicate legal issues and solutions clearly and concisely.

Professional Qualifications

• LLM in Commercial Law/ MBA;
• 10+ years of corporate commercial law experience in leading law firms in the country and/or corporate legal department.