Senior Legal Manager at Kerchanshe Trading Company

• Plans, leads, organizes, staffs & controls department's overall activities,
• Designs and implements procedures, systems, and tools to maximize departmental operating efficiency,
• Assesses risks by following industry trends to ensure profitability, company survival and provide solutions,
• Coaches, mentors, and develops employees through periodic performance evaluations and ongoing performance dialogue and feedback,
• Ensures adherence to company policies and procedures and undertake disciplinary actions if the need arises.

• Advise executive management on the impact, activities, and proposed activities of the Company with regard to local, state, and federal laws and regulations and judicial and administrative decisions.
• Assess the merits of major court cases filed against the Company and approve, with the advice of the appropriate function head, settlement of such court cases where warranted.
• Provides accurate and timely counsel to the Company on a variety of legal topics.
• Provides legal consulting in policy development and training about prevention.
• Develops and leads corporate legal strategy to promote and protect the company’s interests
• Oversees the delivery of legal services and resources to accomplish corporate goals, strategies and priorities,
• Participates in the formulation of general management policy as a member of the executive management team,
• Oversees the development and review of contracts, leases and various agreements involving the Company.
• Oversees the performance of the retention lawyers and related legal proceedings.
• Represents the company in pursuing any legal proceedings.
• Build long-term relationships with all relevant stakeholders, such as local government, media people, politicians, etc.
• Solves conflicts and addresses issues that could occur between the business and the other entity and promptly responds to incidents and other events as necessary,
• Facilitates land leasing and related activities in Governmental Organizations
• Works with Municipality and Sub- city to handle land holding, use, and transfer of ownership,
• Work with the leasing office to secure land by lease for any projects that the company might be engaged,
• Assist other functional managers with any government affairs and related issues they require for the business,
• Develops and supervises control systems with the view to prevent or address violations of laws, regulations, and guidelines
• Oversees the Periodic review of contracts, policies, and other legal documents of the Company to ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Directs the communication of compliance-related issues with employees across all divisions of the organizations and address any and all concerns they may have about legal, ethical or compliance matters;
• Defines and develops the approach for the mandatory compliance training in collaboration with the Training Team;
• Oversees the Preparation, publication and distribution of authorized commercial compliance guides and other instructional materials to help internal staff and external commercial partners achieve clarity on commercial compliance requirements.
• Perform other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.

• LLB or LLM in Law

• Above 10 years of experience

• Team management and leadership skills,
• Organization and planning skills,
• Time management skills

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