Commercial Legal Assistant

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Commercial Legal Assistant

Location: Centurion

Description:

Required Qualifications, knowledge, and experience:

• LLB/BCom Law
• Minimum 2 years experience as a contract manager, junior attorney, paralegal, or legal advisor.
• Proficient in MS Office suite.
• Knowledge of South African law, specifically contract, commercial, and labour law.
• Knowledge of human resources, staffing and industrial relations beneficial.

• Draft a variety of contracts, non-disclosure agreements, franchise agreements, contracts, and policies including tender and vendor forms.
• Review all agreements and proper execution of all contracts with service lines: IT, HR, Legal, and Finance, including review of client service level agreements as applicable.
• Evaluate, negotiate, and execute a wide variety of different contracts covering a range of transactions.
• Serve as point-of-contact between two parties in contractual matters.
• Maintain and update contractual correspondence, documentation and records changes, status reports, and other information on agreements and those in progress.
• Communicate and present information to stakeholders about all contract-related matters.
• Ensure compliance with an appropriate strategic commercial approach, based on contract type and organizational needs.
• Monitor contracts and move forward with close-out, extension, or renewal according to organisational requirements.
• Solve any contract-related problems that may arise with other parties internally and externally.
• Provide on-demand contractual clarifications and recommendations to management or project team members as required.
• Revise documents for adherence to company policy, and advise on contractual rights and obligations and provide interpretation of terms and conditions.
• Ensure all contracts are signed and delivered to relevant parties.