Legal & Compliance Business Partner SSA

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Legal & Compliance Business Partner SSA

Job Purpose:

The Legal & Compliance Business Partner serves as a vital legal and compliance advisor to the Divisions and Enabling Functions, providing sound and credible guidance related to day-to-day operations.
This role will provide expert advice and support to all levels of management across the relevant divisions and markets, supporting 15 different jurisdictions across Sub Saharan and North Africa.
The role supports markets/business functions with a total value of approximately 700 million EUR.
This role reports directly to the Cluster Lead of LPC for the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Key Tasks and Reponsibilities:

Provision of all aspects of legal support, including expert legal advice, local law analysis, risk assessment, strategic input and drafting, to all business divisions (PH, CH & ES) and platform functions across all SSA countries.
Partnering with business stakeholders and LPC Cluster Head in identifying commercial and business risks and developing and implementing appropriate risk management and mitigation strategies to ensure minimal legal risk and smooth business activities.
Prepare Legal Documentation, including drafting contractual amendments, termination notices, and necessary legal correspondence to facilitate smooth business operations.
Managing Debt Collection Processes, including overseeing debt collection proceedings and providing strategic legal guidance to optimize recovery efforts.
Ensuring Regulatory Compliance, including monitoring and ensuring adherence to Bayer LPC processes and internal regulations at the local level, maintaining high standards of compliance.
Ensuring all relevant business divisions and functions are kept up to date on all applicable local laws and legal/political changes that may impact business operations.
Provision of practical strategies, training and awareness sessions in respect of legal and internal policies issues to employees and management teams at all levels.
Advising on, developing, implementing and ensuring continuous compliance with appropriate governance processes at a country and regional level.
Active and key participant within business project teams, providing all required legal and compliance support, as well as strategic and commercial insights, at local and regional levels, across all business divisions and platform functional areas.
Provision of specialized local review, analysis and advice in respect of all anti-trust matters.
Active participant in external industry associations.
Preparing submissions and lobbying relevant government ministries and departments regarding local legal and procedural changes that impact business.
Provision of local law advice, guidance and local practical input to LPC shared service teams.
Supporting anti-counterfeiting initiatives and contentious matters across all SSA countries, including liaising with global stakeholders and local external counsel.
Responsibility for local Data Privacy processes, law and governance to actively help mitigate Data Privacy risks.
Provision of local Data Privacy legal advice and practical input to LPC shared service teams.
Investigating potential data privacy incidents, identifying applicable legal obligations, and supporting local incident response, internally and externally, with support from LPC shared services team.
Developing and delivering Data Privacy training and Data Privacy internal communications with the goal of effectively and efficiently helping to mitigate Data
Privacy risks across all local markets.
Negotiating, drafting and reviewing local Data Privacy aspects of contracts, including collaborating with relevant LPC shared service team.
Developing and updating Data Privacy templates (e.g., contract language, consents, and privacy policies) as business needs and Data Privacy laws and regulations change.
Supervising and undertaking all corporate governance and company secretarial matters for Bayer legal entities in West and East Africa, as well as supporting on company secretarial matters for Southern Africa.
Advising on and managing corporate matters such as corporate registrations, licenses renewal, directors’ appointment and removal, power of attorneys, ultimate beneficiary submissions
Drive Compliance Initiatives: Assist in leading compliance efforts across SSA by supporting compliance activities, training, and compliance investigations.
Support in ICM monitoring activities across SSA in coordination with Compliance Managers and LPC Cluster Lead MENAT & SSA.at every customer touchpoint.

Value added to success of the Company

Safeguards Bayer from prosecution, fines, third party claims, damages and loss of reputation as a result of legal enforcement or cases of non-compliance.
Integral partner to business, providing oversight, advice and guidance, across diverse and complex legal jurisdictions.
Assures understanding, alignment and proper implementation of Bayer’s global policies, together with local regulations, codes and practice.

Work Relations

Reports to LPC Cluster Head for Middle East, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Works closely with all levels of local management, including senior leaders within all business divisions and platform functions.
Works closely with LPC colleagues in other end markets and in Regional and Global LPC specialist teams, as well as LPC shared service teams.
Establishes and maintains external networks associated with the local legal environment and industry associations.
Liaises with external legal and other consultancy firms.

Required Qualifications:

Full law degree and practicing certificate.
At least 7 years PQE working in private practice and in-house.
Fluent in English language (written and spoken)
Fluent in French language (written and spoken)
Strong English language and French language legal drafting skills, preferably having completed additional external training/qualifications.
Excellent communication skills.
Fully computer literate – SAP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Experience working across multiple jurisditions, preferably across Africa.
Strong analytical skills to assess risk involvement, extent of legal liability, financial impact and long-term effects of own decisions on the business
Team-oriented leadership skills honed through experience with senior management
Professional image and ability to handle people and situations with tact, diplomacy, discretion, confidentiality and a sense of urgency

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we want to ensure persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact us at nicole.gien.ext@bayer.com.

Location:

South Africa : Gauteng : Midrand

Division:

Enabling Functions

Reference Code:

863209

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