4 Contract Drafting jobs in South Africa

JOB PURPOSE

To responsibly, pro-actively and efficiently facilitate the business of Aspen by providing a full spectrum of specialist commercial contract drafting and focused legal support to the allocated Business Units (“BUs”), specifically Group Strategic Development / Mergers and Acquisitions, Group Treasury, Group Tax (including intercompany transactions), Group Digital Technology, Group Commercial, Group Communications, Group Company Secretarial, Group Corporate Services, Group Ethics and Compliance, Group Finance, Group Human Capital, Group Internal Audit, Group Investor Relations, Group Marketing, Group Supply Chain, Group Travel, Group Risk and Sustainability, Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited (as applicable) or similar, and other general legal requirements of Aspen, whilst complying with the Group Legal protocol and Group Legal strategy. The position requires the incumbent to think Group-wide, but act and focus on the work of the Group Head: Legal Counsel M&A & Corporate or similar to which he/she has been allocated.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Specialised Aspen and BU aligned drafting and general legal work and legal advice to the allocated BUs
• Efficiently deliver legally sound, subject matter expert quality legal work, as allocated to the legal practice of this role
• Deliver work in a timely manner in accordance to deadlines and project timeline
• Sound electronic Legal practice, file, diary and template management and maintenance
• Meaningfully contribute and deliver ancillary legal work in Group Legal cross – swim lane projects as allocated by the Group Executive: Legal
li>Precedent, template and legal opinion development and improvement
• Meet (or exceed) and manage Group Legal BU KPIs
• Adopt and comply with the ways of working within the Aspen Group Legal BU, including specifically the Aspen Values and honest application of personal Insights® Profile (or similar from an Aspen Group service provider) to enhance interpersonal effectiveness

EDUCATION

• Law Degree or postgraduate Degree – LLB and preferably a second degree such a masters or relevant business qualification
li>Admitted Attorney

CERTIFICATIONS/REGISTRATIONS:

• Membership of the Law Society of South Africa and of the Corporate Counsel Association of South Africa

 EXPERIENCE

• 5-7 years post admission legal experience in a corporate / commercial / operational legal environment
• General business, commercial knowledge and experience is essential
• Experience in independently drafting and vetting lengthy, complex legal agreements is essential
• Exposure in drafting and negotiating cross-border legal agreements is essential
• Experience in due diligence investigations advantageous
• Pharmaceutical industry including regulatory experience is advantageous
• Knowledge of applicable laws, policy guidelines and legal practice management
• Basic to intermediate knowledge of financial concepts

WORK-SPECIFIC SKILLS & EXPOSURE

• Strong analytical skills and ability to exercise sound business judgment and work independently but as a member of an integrated legal team
• Display emotional maturity
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to work in a team, including a multidisciplinary team
• Established conflict resolution as a default demeanour
• Display a high level of interpersonal non-political skill
• A natural default to accuracy and attention to detail

SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

• Be fluent in English and demonstrate excellent drafting and negotiation skills in English
• Manage multiple priorities, work efficiently under pressure and consistently meet tight deadlines
• Able to work independently but as a member of an integrated legal team
• Taking full personal responsibility for attending to and closing allocated matters
• Intermediate to advanced computer literacy
• Database management and maintenance
• Ability to simplify voluminous, complex information
• Accurately collate, review and summarise information into manageable dashboards / checklists
• Basic to intermediate understanding of financial concepts
• Flexible, outcomes-based, self-motivated and proactive
• Project management, co-ordination and monitoring

COMPETENCIES

• Positive, solutions-orientated and logical facilitating approach
• Ability to communicate efficiently and work with business representatives at all levels of seniority
• Ability to plan & organise independently and to guide others
• Ability to identify and focus on material provisions using a risk-based approach
• Attention to detail and absolute accuracy
• Corporate governance ethos with utmost confidentiality
• Willingness and ability to effortlessly take instructions and follow pre-determined processes when called-upon to do so
• Stress tolerance and conflict resolution
• Ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy and meeting deadlines
• Team player with uncomplicated personality is essential

ASPEN COMPETENCIES

Business:

• Performance Driven
• Ability to make Good Decisions, specifically legal
• Accountability & Ownership

People:

• Deals with ambiguity and embraces change
• Communicates effectively
• Develops self and people

Self:

• Contributes special Expertise
• Takes action with integrity
• Demonstrates Passion for Aspen and Law
• Willing and able to work as a team including taking and providing guidance

Aspen is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity. Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups through a fair recruitment and selection process in line with Aspen’s Transformation Agenda.

If you have not heard from the HC department within 30 days of this advert closing, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Core Purpose of the Job

• This role requires a BIM software modelling technician with a solid understanding of their specific discipline.
• The role can be presented by a junior professional or technician and focuses mainly on research and development of BIM in a holistic approach to the overall AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) or Built Environment.

Context

• CKR is entering a new phase in its lifecycle where operational excellence has become critical for success.
• The urgency for change has become more heightened amid increased competitive intensity across all markets in which CKR operates.

Key Performance Areas :

Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's))

• BIM Modelling for specific design discipline
• Understanding Responsibility and Being Accountable
• Good Communication
• Meeting Deadlines
• Mandatory behaviours critical to the Culture of CKR
• Understanding and demonstrating the ethos of CKR

Role Dependencies

• Engineering Personnel
• Internal CKR disciplines for quality coordination of MEP services.
• External stakeholders (Consultants; PM’s; Architects; QS; Clients; Developers; Government Bodies etc.)
• Liaising with Clients and other Consultants drafting personnel

Discretionary Space - Independent Thought and Judgement

The degree to which individuals are allowed to exercise independent thought and judgement)

• Understanding client requirements, interpreting them using engineering judgements and presenting a solution.
• Interpret situations (internally and externally); apply knowledge of process (discipline; customer requirements) to provide appropriate solutions and make informed project and business decisions.
• Evaluate project progress and make trade-offs to ensure the best use of available resources.
• Alert Management or colleagues to issues and risks in any project or the business itself.

Authorities :

• CKR Management and Senior Engineers

Duties will comprise :

General

• BIM modelling for specific design discipline
• Work under direction of Senior Draftsman Team Lead
• Ensure construction documents accuracy based on discipline BIM modelling
• Collaborate and Coordinate with other disciplines design-changes and model challenges
• Adhere to BIM execution plan and BIM project workflow
• Present new technologies which align and add benefit to the overall company BIM strategy
• Follow BIM standards and development procedures
• May take lead on developing some discipline specific BIM modelling content for project
• Prepare BIM models for coordination meetings
• Oversee the communication of project information via DWF for collaboration internally and externally
• Drafting Technician under close supervision, perform simple drafting tasks, often with finished work as a guide.
• This is the entry level class for the engineering drafting.
• Incumbents have had sufficient training and / or experience to produce an acceptable quality and quantity of simple, repetitive drafting work without additional on-the-job training and without being required to have any substantial knowledge of engineering, symbols and terminology.
• Incumbents typically are expected to progress to Senior Drafting Technician.
• Examples of assignments at this level of difficulty and responsibility are : Drafting assistant to a Principal Drafting Technician, preparing simple engineering detail drawings, circuit and other diagrams, and maintaining files of completed work and copies.

Administration / Internal Management

• Plan your work every day and week.
• Complete work within agreed times and adhere to priorities.
• Plan your leave in conjunction with project engineers and project managers.
• Adhere to internal procedures and systems.
• Fill in time sheets on a daily basis, using the system as provided by CKR.

• LLB degree
• Com Law / Finance degree will be advantageous
• Newly admitted to 3 years post-article experience in Commercial Law
• LLM in corporate and commercial law will be advantageous
• Strong contract drafting skills
• Knowledge and understanding of corporate and commercial transactions (including M&A's, Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Deal Structuring, Transactional Tax, etc.)
• Fluent in English (both verbal and written)
• Fluency in Afrikaans will be advantageous
• Fully computer literate (including MS Word, Excel, etc.)