Company Secretary/Legal Adviser at Grand Cereals Limited

Job Outcomes

Legal: Set legal direction and deliver high-quality, correct and timely legal advice to the Company and its functional units

• Draft, review and finalize all legal agreements involving the Company and implement effective contract management, ensuring 100% of contracts are subsisting and valid.
• Implement strategic management of litigation portfolio ensuring no new avoidable litigations arise. Reduce litigation portfolio by 10% year on year.
• Implement strategic management of the Company’s intellectual property portfolio (including copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, etc.,) ensuring 100% of intellectual properties are validly registered and subsisting.
• Provide strategic, functional, correct and timely legal advice on all new product launches.
• Zero regulatory penalty.

Governance and Secretariat: Support the overall effectiveness of the Board.

• Implement, model and encourage good corporate governance practices and culture within the Company to ensure 100% compliance with applicable corporate governance requirements.
• Provide a central source of guidance and advice to the Board and the Company on matters of ethics, conflict of interest and good corporate governance.
• Coordinate the induction of new directors within three (3) months of being appointed.
• Provide high-quality secretarial support to the Board, improving the effectiveness of the Board year on year by 10%.
• Oversee the planning and coordination of the Company’s Annual General Meeting (at least once every year) and other general meetings, as may be required.
• Draft minutes of Board-related meetings within 2 weeks, reports of committee meetings within 24 hours and action points within 24 hours.

Technology: Infuse Technology into the legal function for improved efficiency and effectiveness.

• Successfully integrate artificial intelligence in one key legal process, resulting in a 10 - 15% increase in efficiency within the next six months.
• Drive efficiency in the utilization of technology across the business – at least one technology-based initiative/recommendation introduced in a financial year.

People: Implement continuous training and ensure talent retention.

• Achieve 50% increase in employees’ knowledge of contracts requisition and signing process through targeted training programs over the next fiscal year.
• Ensure no loss of key talent in the Company’s legal function.
• Implement two (2) Company-wide employee trainings per year on relevant Company policies for improved efficiency.

Stakeholder Management: maintain effective stakeholder engagement and management

• Develop a stakeholder map for the Company within 3 months.
• Organize and oversee at least 2 stakeholder engagement visits in a financial year.

Competencies of the Job

• LL.B and B.L (at least 2.1 either way).
• ICSAN (this is an added advantage).
• Minimum of 10 years of appreciable and functional post-call corporate and commercial law experience
• High level of integrity and ethics. Consistently demonstrates ‘clearly above-board’ principles.
• Enthusiasm: clearly “on board” with the mission, lives and breathes the Company.
• Committing and delivering. Setting bold targets and relentlessly pursuing them to execution.
• Inspiring teams. Building high-performing teams, setting high standards and challenging colleagues to strive for excellence.
• Has an eye for detail. Analytical and possesses elite legal research and drafting skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.A high level of organization, professional maturity and ability to juggle multiple tasks.
• Strong passion for continuous learning and development.
• Keen interest in technology improvement (particularly artificial intelligence).
• Analytical and strategic thinking.
• Talent spotting and development.
• Good team player with relationship management and networking skills.