Legal Counsel Manager South Africa

CMA CGM; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

CEVA Logistics is seeking a Legal Counsel Manager to provide expert legal advice and support for the Southern Africa region. This role involves leading a legal team, managing contracts, ensuring compliance, and providing strategic legal guidance across various business units. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in Law and 5-10 years of corporate legal experience.

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor or barrister with a valid practicing licence.
• 5-10 years previous experience in a corporate legal environment.
• Strong knowledge of South African laws and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage the legal team.
• Analyze contractual projects and negotiate legal terms.
• Draft and solidify agreements and legal documents.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Contract Risk Awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Law

Job description

CEVA Logistics provides global supply chain solutions to connect people, products, and providers all around the world. Present in 170+ countries and with more than 110,000 employees spread over 1,500 sites, we are proud to be a Top 5 global 3PL.

We believe that our employees are the key to our success. We want to engage and empower our diverse, global team to co-create value with our customers through our solutions in contract logistics and air, ocean, ground, and finished vehicle transport. That is why CEVA Logistics offers a dynamic and exceptional work environment that fosters personal growth, innovation, and continuous improvement.

DARE TO GROW! Join CEVA Logistics, and you will be part of a team that values imagination and continued learning and is committed to excellence in everything we do. Join us in our mission to shape the future of global logistics. As we continue growing at a fast pace, will you “Dare to Grow” with us?

YOUR ROLE

We are seeking a Legal Counsel Manager for our legal department to be based at CEVA Logistics South Africa.

As a Legal Counsel Professional, you will be responsible for providing expert legal advice and support to the business unit, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, and handling legal matters efficiently and effectively for the Southern Africa region (8 countries).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead, mentor, and manage the legal team, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Develop and implement strategic goals and initiatives for the legal team.
• Analyze contractual projects as well as tenders, assess the risks and negotiate the legal terms where appropriate in consultation with operational and commercial staff, along with Legal Head of IMEA.
• Draft and solidify agreements, contracts and other legal documents to ensure the company’s full legal rights and ensure that the CMA CGM Group Logistics Division Business Rules (CBR) are implemented to the contracts and business transactions.
• Prepare corporate meetings in the relevant entities, agenda and board or shareholder’s resolutions. Carry out procedures related to the Companies`s meeting of shareholders, changes to the company statutes, establishment of subsidiaries and signatures.
• Ensure prevention (drafting of legal notices, prevention of litigation, risk assessment, etc.) and participate in application of contractual risk management solutions.
• Provide training to the operational staff regarding contract risk awareness and minimization, CBR and internal rules and processes.
• Manage claims and dispute resolutions, litigations and represent companies in legal proceedings (administrative boards, court trials etc.) in collaboration with claims teams, internal clients, insurers and external legal counsels.
• Provide strategic advice on commercial law, employment law, obligation law, public procurement law and finance law with a high degree of independence.
• Provide legal advice to the Companies Business Development, Finance, Procurement, HR and other departments in order to enable them to meet their commercial objectives and also mitigate the legal risk of the Companies
• Participate and actively assist in all M&A projects and corporate re-structuring with the Sub-Region
• Disseminate internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance. Ensure the legal workflows and policies are up to date and implemented across the business units
• Report deviations from CER to the Management and/or ICAP Committee.

• Ensure legal watch (evolution of texts and case law in the relevant countries) and manage contractual databases, participate in their improvement and design activity reports
• Work in maintaining templates, ensuring corporate compliance and standard terms and conditions are consistent with overall corporate policies
• Manage formal correspondences and notifications to or from public authorities and other third parties
• Support IMEA Legal team in case of extraordinary rush, unusual workflow increase or specific file where your expertise is requested.
• Provide legal advice on a wide range of issues related to the business operations

Requirements:

• Relevant qualification, Bachelor's degree in Law
• Qualified solicitor or barrister with a valid practicing licence
• 5-10 years previous experience in a corporate legal environment
• Strong knowledge of South African laws and regulations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team

If you are a skilled legal professional looking to join a dynamic legal team in the logistics industry, we invite you to apply for the position of Legal Counsel Professional South Africa at CEVA Logistics South Africa.

“CEVA Logistics Pty (Ltd) is committed to equality, employment equity, and diversity. In accordance with the employment equity plan of CEVA and its preference may be given, but is not limited, to candidates from under-represented designated groups. Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply for positions. CEVA reserves the right not to make an appointment to the posts as advertise

As a global organization, and as part of the CMA CGM Group, diversity is critical to our business success; only when we can reflect the cultures, languages, behaviors and local knowledge of our customers, we can succeed. By employing people with different experiences and abilities, we expand our knowledge and increase our creativity and innovation.

Please note: Legitimate CEVA Logistics recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn or via an official company email address: [e-mail]. We recommend that you do not respond to unsolicited business propositions and/or offers from people with whom you are unfamiliar.