Manager, Legal

Role Summary:

Lead and oversee all legal operations within SAFE, ensuring legal compliance, providing strategic legal counsel, and representing SAFE in legal proceedings when necessary.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee the legal operations of the department, ensuring smooth functioning.
• Provide expert legal advice and guidance on various legal matters to support the company's operations.
• Review and draft legal documents, contracts, agreements, and internal policies to ensure legal compliance and protect the company's interests.
• Ensure strict compliance with applicable laws and regulations, helping the company operate within legal boundaries.
• Represent the company in legal proceedings when necessary, defending its interests and rights.
• Collaborate with internal teams to identify and proactively mitigate legal risks that may affect the company.
• Stay current with changes in laws and regulations that impact the company and provide guidance accordingly.
• Manage disputes and report them to the head of the department, taking appropriate action as needed.
• Lead and manage the legal department's personnel, overseeing day-to-day activities to ensure efficiency and seamless support to other departments.
• Liaise with external law firms to implement legal strategies and ensure proper monitoring and follow-up.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in law or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in various rules.

Core Competency:

Dependability:

• Self-driven and takes action proactively.
• Pursues goals with persistence and stamina, works on tasks thoroughly, ensuring accuracy and meeting standards.
• Maintains high levels of quality and effectiveness of work outputs and achieves outstanding results.

Collaboration: 

• Collaborates constructively with people at all levels across the organization
• Helps colleagues, always be available to the team, and delivers on team commitments.
• Trusts the guidance and direction of colleagues and senior members of the team.

Analytical Thinking:

• Examines, evaluates, and analyses different types of information objectively. 
• Spots trends and patterns, establishes key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.
• Provides insights and identifies ways to improve things. Trusts intuition about which methods will work best.

Effective Communication:

• Listens attentively and seeks to understand before being understood.
• Explains things clearly and articulates and presents information effectively and confidently.
• Challenges ideas effectively and presents persuasive arguments by presenting a strong case.

Functional Competency :

Legal Research and Analysis:

• Proficient in conducting legal research and analyzing complex legal issues.

Negotiation Skills

• Strong negotiation skills for resolving legal matters and reaching favorable outcomes.

Strategic Planning:

• Ability to develop and implement legal strategies that align with the company's goals and objectives.

Managerial Accountability

• Human Capital Development:
• Create strategy, goals, or plans for the team as appropriate, in alignment with SAFE goals.
• Set priorities and manage workload for self and staff.
• Recognize training needs and ensure that staff gain needed skills.
• Create strategy, goals, or plans for the team as appropriate, in alignment with SAFE goals.