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Job title : Legal Specialist
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : September 14, 2024
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Job objectives
- Transaction support: Play a lead role in supporting the business in M&A, JV opportunities – providing direction to senior management, supervising input from external advisors, co-ordinating compliance, tax, due diligence, financial, legal, etc., requirements, drafting and negotiating transaction documents.
- Regulatory & Compliance: Advising on regulatory and compliance issues relating to the consumer health care and life sciences sectors, ranging from medicine pricing (including the single exit price, dispensing fees, logistics fees, data fees), reimbursement models (capitation, fee for service etc.), the supply and distribution of, and the marketing and advertising of, medicines, medical devices and complementary medicines and the licensing of wholesalers, distributors, and retailers.
- Commercial contracting: Provide value-added, business-focused and practical legal advice to all business units on commercial matters including negotiation and the drafting of contracts.
- Leadership: Play a leadership role within the legal team (comprising both Group Legal and external lawyers, as the work requires) as well as within the Group, across functions.
- Value: Be capable of clearly and effectively communicating legal advice to all levels of the business and the ability to provide business-focused, practical solutions.
- Risk: advising on corporate risks (including managing organizational compliance with the requirements of a regulated industry), actions to take to mitigate those risks and strategies for negotiation to maximise the opportunity in risk.
- Initiative: Taking the initiative to keep up to date with new areas of law and identify any trends which may impact on the Group. Warn the business of risks which could develop and help translate this risk into potential opportunities or to inform the strategic decisions as to which businesses to increase, decrease or exit from.
Minimum requirements
Qualifications
Essential:
- LLB Degree
- Admission as an Attorney or Advocate at the Bar in South Africa
Desirable:
- MA in Law / MBA
Job-related knowledge
Essential:
- Expert knowledge of national policies, regulatory frameworks affecting the consumer healthcare and retail industries, including knowledge of current affairs
Desirable:
- A deep knowledge of the company and its corporate structure
- Knowledge of the healthcare and retail industries and its competitors, of the demand for the Group’s products or services, of the products or services themselves
- Awareness of likely developments and trends in the Group’s markets and its regulation.
- Awareness on wider commercial issues
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