Chief Legal Officer

Gauteng
Salary: Market Related
Job Type: Permanent
Sectors: Health Fitness & Beauty Health & Safety
Reference: Chief Legal Officer

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Vacancy Details

Employer: Sotina Recruitment

To drive and provide strategic direction and oversight for the Group’s Legal department in order to protect its interests and deliver longer term organizational objectives in line with regulatory, statutory and legal parameters. Collegially formulate an aligned strategic framework to enable shareholder and stakeholder value. The Chief Legal Officer is responsible for the Legal practice of the organisation and contributes to the overarching executive management of the business, enabling the availability of resources and measurement of cost efficiencies.

Required Skills

Regulatory Affairs: 7 to 8 years
Compliance Issues: 7 to 8 years
Formulate And Drive The Implementation: 7 to 8 years
Negotiate Or Approve Contracts: 7 to 8 years

Candidate Requirements

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

• LLB Degree

• 7-10 years’ experience in Commercial Law

• Previous experience in the healthcare industry is advantageous.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Lead strategic direction setting and strategic planning for Legal in alignment to the company’s vision, mission and values

• Direct the Group’s Legal activities, including the approval of legal plans and templates, the selection of directors or other high-level staff, or establishment or organization of major departments

• Negotiate or approve contracts or agreements with suppliers, distributors, state agencies, or other organizational entities.

• of departmental policies, goals, objectives, or procedures in conjunction with board members, organization officials, or staff members.

• Participate in professional forums where financial and operational health of the department can be tracked and analysed at board level

• Coordinate with external law firms in order to pursue legal cases for and against the Group to protect the Group’s interests.

• Participate in decision making at EXCO level - prepare proposals and reports for submission to Board

• Sponsor company initiatives and projects as it relates to Legal

• Ensure business strategy in the area of accountability is adequately budgeted for to drive the financial performance of the business

• Manage the costs associated with the contracting of external law firms and legal counsel and report accordingly.

• Research, collate and present business intelligence to feed into management decisions and support business strategy

• Ensure audit processes, business intelligence and other information is used to analyse data in order to identify and escalate risk

• Regulatory Affairs

• Compliance issues

• Represent the company in court

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About Sotina Recruitment

Sotina Recruitment Agency - Sotina Holding was established in 2010 and provides recruitment services to business partners. Our offices are based in Johannesburg Gauteng and Paarl Western Cape. We adapt best practices to facilitate sourcing, validating and evaluating profiles to deliver candidates of the required skills and calibre to our clients. Based on the requirement of the job profile, we search for candidates from our online database and we also advertise in local platforms like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn, we pride ourselves with high quality standards, professionalism, integrity, passion and excellent customer service. We recruit top calibre candidates throughout South Africa.

Our human resources management solutions range from permanent recruitment, short-term long-term contract placements.

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We have a multi-talented team of highly experienced recruitment consultants, who specialize in different industries and sectors. Our team of consultants works in close coordination with clients to conceptualize their requirements and offer them best solutions. Further, we also have a dedicated team of customer care, who attend to all the queries of the clients and furnish them with complete information about the services.

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While speed, dependability, reliability and efficiency are our priority, customer satisfaction is the ultimate goal. Our unique working methodology and untiring efforts enable us to shortlist appropriate candidates, who are at the helm of rendering the best of present generation services. We utilize our in-depth market knowledge and comprehensive research techniques to meet the unique requirements of every client