Legal Officer at PPC Limited

At PPC Limited, we turn ideas into solutions and help businesses to create and implement exceptional user experience. We are specialized systems integrator.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Legal Officer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Purpose

• Work to ensure the highest level of corporate governance within the Group, whilst providing quality legal solutions to minimize business risks, exposure and interruption.

Responsibilities

• Draft and finalise agreements, contracts, MoUs, SLAs and other legal documents to ensure the company’s full legal rights are preserved.
• Device efficient strategy to always nip in the bud, matters that could lead to litigation.
• Focus on the commercial business and legal support to ensure that the business has good and solid relationships with all external stakeholders including but not limited to customers, suppliers, partners etc. This will include negotiation and finalisation of all agreements, providing advice on consumer, competition, labour and all other commercial law.
• Develop and review internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance
• Attend to complex matters with multiple stakeholders and forces.
• Seek, Obtain and Provide in-depth legal opinions and clafification on various issues affecting the business.
• Draft and review legal correspondence.
• Research and evaluate different risk factors regading business decisions and operations
• Attend to and monitor all pending litigations and proceedings involving the Company.
• Attend to and monitor all pending law enforcement matters involving the Group and its subsidiaries.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of the Legal fucntion.
• Conduct your work with integrity and responsibility
• Maintain current knowledge of amendments in legislation

Requirements

• Education:LLB and B.L degree. An MBA will be an added advantage.
• Experience:Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience.

Technical:

• Knowledge of corporate and commercial law is essential
• Good grasp of relevant laws and hands-on interpretation and application of company secretarial issues.
• Experience being a team lead in a corporate environment
• Experience interfacing with law enforcement agency
• Excellent communication, research, presentation, and analytical skills.
• Proven ability to determine priorities, cope with high volumes of work, plan and organize workloads, set targets, meet deadlines, and achieve high standard results.

Behavioural:

• Courteous.
• Teamwork.
• Persuasive.
• Dependable.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to forecast and be creative.
• Good interpersonal relationship.
• Goal-oriented, organized team player.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented.
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Goal-oriented.

Application Closing Date
14th January, 2025.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their resumes to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.