This corporate giant is currently looking for a suitably qualified EE Group Legal Counsel: Compliance. Reporting to the Group Senior Legal Counsel: Competition & Compliance, you will be responsible for partnering with the business to provide legal advice and services that promote growth while identifying legal risk and mitigation actions.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience Required:

• LLB or B.Proc.
• Admitted Attorney.
• Articles completed in a law firm, pref with at least a further 2 years’ commercial and/or competition law experience.
• Legal, business and financial acumen.
• Working knowledge of the law (Legislation, Case Law and Common Law) relevant to countries of operation.
• Knowledge of competition and compliance law an advantage.
• Skilled in drafting and dispute management.
• Skilled at partnering and relationship building.
• Ability to engage, influence and negotiate effectively.
• Willingness to travel to the Group's Operations.

Key Performance Areas:

• Proactively engage and partner with the business to better protect the business, maximize value, embed good practices and manage risk, informing the Group Senior Legal Counsel: Competition and Compliance prior to making decisions with a high risk for the business.
• Provide timely, accurate and quality legal advice to the business on all competition, compliance and commercial legal matters – alone, together with the Group Senior Legal Counsel: Competition and Compliance, other Lawyers in the Legal team, or with external Lawyers as appropriate.
• Support the Group Senior Legal Counsel: Competition and Compliance in implementing strategic and wider business initiatives, including leading such initiatives.
• Act as a point of contact for day-to-day competition and compliance legal queries from the business.
• Proactively seek to raise the profile of competition and compliance issues.
• Review, draft and negotiate commercial agreements.
• Analyse objectives/plans, make judgements and recommendations.
• Provide advice regarding dealings with regulators and government officials in relation to legal compliance matters.
• Decide and advise on, negotiate and manage any disputes or claims that may arise from time to time.
• Instruct and manage external Legal Advisors, ensuring cost-effective commercial advice is delivered.
• Prepare presentations for training purposes, and train individuals and groups within the business on legal procedures and other legal and compliance issues.
• Assist in the development of precedents so as to facilitate the use of appropriate contracts throughout the business.
• Support the Group Senior Legal Counsel: Competition and Compliance in managing the conduct of legal compliance investigations.
• Meet regularly with the Chief Risk Officer to be kept up-to-date with the implementation of competition and ABC compliance controls and issues arising.
• Contribute to the wider Legal teams, including sharing experience, know-how and developing training and precedents.