Legal Support Administrator- Claremont: Wc

Key Outputs and Accountability

Contract management

• Provide legal administrative support by assisting with receiving, reviewing, updating, interpreting and negotiating customer/supplier contracts and conducting related administrative tasks.
• Assist in ensuring that contracts have been concluded in accordance with group policies, using the correct terms and conditions.
• Tracking the contract enquiry process from creation to post-approval and follow up on outstanding signed contracts.
• Promptly escalate any non-compliant contracts and issues to the Senior Legal Counsel.
• Maintain and manage a contract database.
• Ensure that key contract dates are flagged to relevant parties in a timely manner.
• Highlight and escalate any contract review process gaps and suggests solutions.
• Collaborate with our in-house Legal team to suggest improvements to templates, processes, operating procedures, and reporting.
• Provide contract metrics, insights and reports to internal stakeholders e.g. legal, business leads, internal audit, as required.
• Support the department with any ad hoc projects.

Professional role development

• Be accountable for delivering against own role description
• Take ownership of targets and objectives
• Use experience to solve current problems
• Manage a high-level workload and work efficiently under pressure

Stakeholder management

• Managing correspondence and communication with internal staff and customers.
• Gain trust & confidence from stakeholders around performance delivery.
• Develop good relationships with all business and external stakeholders such as Key Account Directors and Key Account managers

SKILLS (Essential)

• General understanding of commercial terms and conditions and experience in contract management. Strong background in commercial administration/document control role
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to interact professionally with clients and colleagues.
• Ability to work with a high degree of accuracy
• Proficiency in legal terminology
• Excellent written skills including Word/Excel
• Very organised and structure
• Handling legal documents
• Credible stakeholder management ability
• Proactive, responsive and action orientated
• Team player with a positive attitude and willingness to collaborate with others

Qualifications and Experience

• Matric
• LLB Degree or Law Qualification.
• Admitted Attorney will be advantageous
• 2 years of proven experience in similar role
• Drivers Licence
• Computer literate - MS Office