British American Tobacco Vacancy for a Corporate Counsel

⏲ Jan 24, 2018, 4:55 AM
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British American Tobacco is all about freedom of choice - whether it’s our people or our products. Combined with our entrepreneurial spirit, it’s what’s driven our phenomenal success. We started trading tobacco over a hundred years ago. Today, we’re a multibillion dollar company with more than 200 brands in our portfolio. With robust positions in each of our regional markets, our future looks equally bright too. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Corporate Counsel Job Number: 20281BR Location: Lagos Appointment type: Permanent Job Purpose and Key Deliverables

British American Tobacco has an exciting opportunity for a Corporate Counsel to join our team in Lagos.
Reporting to the Area Head of Litigation and Regulation, the job holder will provide operational and strategic legal support to the BAT business, covering commercial transactions, finance matters, company secretarial matters, contract management, legal compliance, risk management, dispute resolution, employment law, intellectual property management, and records management

Requirements Essential Requirements:

A lawyer with professional legal qualifications and practical commercial legal experience of not less than 8 (eight) years.
Ability to manage and direct external lawyers and consultants.
Ability to organise, prepare and deliver PowerPoint presentations
Effective negotiation skills
Strong inter-personal and communication skills.
Ability to formulate, advise on and implement legal strategy within a multinational business context
Working knowledge of commercial law, company law and company secretarial management, finance, tax, employment law
Good commercial judgment; ability to work under pressure and with minimum supervision;

Desirable Requirements: Legal skills must be complemented by related management skills / business knowledge to:

Handle the complete range of business issues
Assess and respond to priorities
Advanced communication skills, including excellent writing skills and the ability to create and present power point presentations to top management
Effective negotiation skills
High degree of self-motivation and initiative
Ability to work well as a member of a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional team.
Inspire sufficient confidence in management / contribute to the realisation of business objectives.
Highly developed business and people management skills.
A sound commercial awareness and practical approach
Good commercial judgement; ability to understand the aims of the BAT business;