Senior Legal Manager at American Tower Africa

Responsibilities
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Provide corporate/ commercial legal advice for the company’s operations.
• Provision of expert legal advice to support business stakeholders and ensure legal compliance of business decisions, processes and documentation.
• Effective self-leadership as an individual contributor in a high-performance environment
• Coaching, training and change communication to staff on any legal developments impacting the business.
• Management of Legal and Regulatory outsourced partners.
• Management and interface with regulatory authorities and external counsel.
• Drafting key commercial agreements for company.
• Perform due diligence review on various real estate documents, including ground leases and title deeds with a high level of detail.
• Handle litigation issues with support of external counsel.
• Perform company secretarial duties.

General Responsibilities

• The employee shall comply with the provisions of health, safety and environment legislation in Nigeria, and shall also comply with ATC Nigeria’s policies and procedures including occupational health and safety and wellness policies, and any modifications to any policy that may be introduced from time to time.
• All employees must live ATCs Core Principles and work proactively in a customer-related way in accordance with adopted procedures and best practice.
• To work co-operatively with colleagues and external stakeholders to promote ATC Nigeria’s overall business objectives.
• To ensure that confidentiality is respected and maintained always.
• To perform any other duty as directed by line management.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Other

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications
FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE and COMPETENCIES:

• Knowledge of corporate/ commercial law principles
• Knowledge of land law principles, including title and legal document requirements.
• Experience in drafting commercial agreements.
• Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office.
• Litigation experience.
• Telecoms / infrastructure experience
• Regulatory experience
• Ability to work with functional groups and different level of employees throughout the ATC Nigeria organization to effectively and professionally achieve business results
• Strong follow-up skills; ability to organize applicable department timelines and follow up with internal and external customer needs as needed
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively
• Strong organizational skills; ability to accomplish multiple tasks within the agreed upon timeframes through effective prioritization of duties and functions in a fast-paced environment
• Strong track record of building and maintaining solid relationships with both internal and external customers and vendors.
• Self-motivated, able to work both independently to complete tasks and respond to department requests as well as collaborating with others to utilize resources and knowledge in identifying high quality solutions

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in law
• 5 – 8 years at the Nigerian Bar and UK/ US Bar Qualification if applicable.
• 5+ years legal work experience and in general commercial and corporate law. International exposure is an advantage.