Legal Manager at Alpha Mead Group

Job Description

• Are you passionate about corporate governance and providing effective legal solutions? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy minimizing business liabilities? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Legal Manager to join our dynamic team.
• As a Legal Manager, you will work closely with the Head of Legal & Company Secretary to ensure the highest level of corporate governance within our Group, while providing quality legal solutions and minimizing business liabilities, exposure, and interruption.

Responsibilities

• Draft and review agreements, contracts, MoUs, SLAs, and letters of award for the Group and our subsidiary companies in Nigeria.
• Maintain an up-to-date contract schedule for the Group and our subsidiary companies in Nigeria.
• Focus on the commercial business and legal support to ensure that the business has good and solid relationships with all external stakeholders including but not limited to customers, suppliers, distributors and agents. This will include negotiation and finalisation of all agreements, providing advice on consumer, competition, labour and all other commercial law.
• Ensure compliance with the Contracts Management Policy, Process, and Procedures.
• Provide in-depth legal opinions on various issues affecting the Group and its subsidiaries.
• Draft and review legal correspondence.
• Conduct legal research and constantly monitor legal and regulatory changes for timely updates and legal analysis.
• Attend and monitor all pending litigations and proceedings involving the Company.
• Attend and monitor all pending law enforcement matters involving the Group and its subsidiaries.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of the Legal & Company Secretary department.

Qualifications

• LLB and B.L degree.
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience.
• Knowledge of corporate and commercial law is a must have
• Real estate experience is strongly desired
• Good grasp of relevant laws and hands-on interpretation and application of company secretarial issues.
• Experience been a team lead in a corporate environment
• Experience interfacing with law enforcement agency
• Excellent communication, research, presentation, and analysis skills.
• Proven ability to determine priorities, cope with high volumes of work, plan and organize workloads, set targets, meet deadlines, and achieve high standard results.