Legal Support Administrator- Claremont: WC

In brief

**Overview** This role is for a Legal Support Administrator at Rentokil Initial South Africa, located in Claremont, Western Cape. The position involves providing comprehensive legal administrative support, primarily focused on contract management, ensuring compliance with group policies, and assisting the in-house legal team with related tasks and projects. **What you will do** * Provide legal administrative support by assisting with receiving, reviewing, updating, interpreting and negotiating customer/supplier contracts and conducting related administrative tasks. * Assist in ensuring that contracts have been concluded in accordance with group policies, using the correct terms and conditions. * Tracking the contract enquiry process from creation to post-approval and follow up on outstanding signed contracts. * Promptly escalate any non-compliant contracts and issues to the Senior Legal Counsel. * Maintain and manage a contract database. * Ensure that key contract dates are flagged to relevant parties in a timely manner. * Highlight and escalate any contract review process gaps and suggests solutions. * Collaborate with our in-house Legal team to suggest improvements to templates, processes, operating procedures, and reporting. * Provide contract metrics, insights and reports to internal stakeholders e.g. legal, business leads, internal audit, as required. * Support the department with any ad hoc projects. * Be accountable for delivering against own role description. * Take ownership of targets and objectives. * Use experience to solve current problems. * Manage a high-level workload and work efficiently under pressure. * Managing correspondence and communication with internal staff and customers. * Gain trust & confidence from stakeholders around performance delivery. * Develop good relationships with all business and external stakeholders such as Key Account Directors and Key Account managers. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * General understanding of commercial terms and conditions and experience in contract management. * Strong background in commercial administration/document control role. * Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to interact professionally with clients and colleagues. * Ability to work with a high degree of accuracy. * Proficiency in legal terminology. * Excellent written skills including Word/Excel. * Very organised and structured. * Handling legal documents. * Credible stakeholder management ability. * Proactive, responsive and action orientated. * Team player with a positive attitude and willingness to collaborate with others. * Matric. * LLB Degree or Law Qualification. * 2 years of proven experience in similar role. * Drivers Licence. * Computer literate – MS Office. **Who should apply** An ideal candidate will be an organised, proactive, and action-oriented individual with a strong background in commercial administration or document control, specifically within contract management. They should possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, be proficient in legal terminology and MS Office, and demonstrate the ability to work with a high degree of accuracy under pressure. A team player with a positive attitude, experience in stakeholder management, and holding a Matric certificate along with an LLB Degree or Law Qualification and at least 2 years of relevant experience, is sought. An admitted attorney would be advantageous. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/legal-support-administrator-claremont-wc-rentokil-initial-south-africa Source: myjobmag

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• At least 2 years of experience.

• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office
• Driver's licence

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