Millicom International Cellular (MIC) S.A., operators of Tigo, is a leading international developer and operator of cellular telephone services worldwide primarily in emerging markets operating across Latin America and Africa.
\nThe company provides affordable, widely accessible and readily available cellular telephony services to more than 30 million customers in 13 emerging markets in these continents.
\nThe success of Tigo is based on the triple ‘A’ business model which stands for Affordability, Accessibility and Availability. This guarantees that our subscribers experience the best services at the most affordable rates throughout our 10 regions of Ghana and beyond.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0 Commercial Legal Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n Role Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n Reporting to the Head of Legal, the individual selected for this role will be required to provide legal support to other functions of the business in order to achieve team targets and corporate goals in a timely and professional manner. (S)He will oversee the drafting, reviewing, renewing and termination of all commercial contracts of the company and ensuring that they do not expose the business to frivilous litigation.<\/p>\n Key Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Provide general legal advice to the business and bring a commercial outlook to the law; Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0\u00a0 A Bachelor of Laws (LLB) qualification; Location:<\/strong> Accra<\/p>\n How To Apply For The Job<\/strong><\/p>\n Interested and qualified candidates should<\/p>\n Click Here To Apply Online<\/strong><\/p>\n Closing Date:<\/strong> 26 September, 2016<\/p>\n When you join Tigo, you join a team where your skills, ideas and technical know-how can do more than contribute to the bottom-line. You’ll be exposed to enormous experience, great network and a workforce full of talents with youthful exuberance.<\/p>\n At Tigo we are all salesmen and we are responsible for our own development. We consider each vacancy as a development opportunity for Tigo Employees and we develop both the business and people together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Millicom International Cellular (MIC) S.A., operators of Tigo, is a leading international developer and operator of cellular telephone services worldwide primarily in emerging markets operating across Latin America and Africa……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[44],"tags":[1365],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-4dv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Draft and review contracts and documents on transactions affecting the business and participate in meetings and negotiations (where necessary) to ensure minimal exposure by the company to external parties;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Review and proactively identify legislative, regulatory and other legal developments and threats that affect or can potentially affect existing and anticipated contractual arrangements;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Set up and monitor a central contracts database;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Analyse commercial cases\/issues affecting the company and advise on strategy, settlement, litigation or ADR as the case may require;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Provide commercial legal opinions and follow up on issues arising in consultation with the Head of Legal;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Prepare and circulate monthly updates on legislative\/legal developments to relevant internal stakeholders;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Attend court hearings, meetings and workshops which have commercial legal implications affecting Millicom as requested by the Head of Legal;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Liaise with external legal Solicitors to submit monthly Litigation Update to the Finance department to facilitate the planning of a possible financial exposures;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Assist in the General administration of the Legal Department;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Assist with any other legal work assigned by the Head of Legal.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Qualifying Certificate in Law (admitted to practice in Ghana);
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Minimum of four (4) years\u2019 experience at the Bar with at least two (2) years\u2019 experience working in a similar role;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Ability to prepare and conduct PowerPoint presentations on legal issues;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Must possess satisfactory interpersonal skills, ability to work in a team and should be results oriented;
\n\u2022\u00a0\u00a0 Ability to communicate, influence and lead teams.<\/p>\n