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Corporate Counsel Vacancy At British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco is a leading tobacco group, with brands sold in more than 200 markets. We employ more than 57,000 people and, with over 200 brands in our portfolio, we make the cigarette chosen by one in eight of the world’s one billion adult smokers. We hold robust market positions in each of our four regions – Americas; Asia-Pacific; Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Western Europe – and we are leaders in more than 60 markets.

Job title: Corporate Counsel

Job number: 20281BR

Location/City: Lagos

Appointment type: Permanent

Job purpose and key deliverables           
British American Tobacco has an exciting opportunity for a Corporate Counsel to join our team in Lagos.

Reporting to the Area Head of Litigation and Regulation, the job holder will provide operational and strategic legal support to the BAT business, covering commercial transactions, finance matters, company secretarial matters, contract management, legal compliance, risk management, dispute resolution, employment law, intellectual property management, and records management

Essential requirements

  • A lawyer with professional legal qualifications and practical commercial legal experience of not less than 8 (eight) years.
  • Ability to formulate, advise on and implement legal strategy within a multinational business context
  • Working knowledge of commercial law, company law and company secretarial management, finance, tax, employment law
  • Good commercial judgment; ability to work under pressure and with minimum supervision;
  • Ability to manage and direct external lawyers and consultants.
  • Ability to organise, prepare and deliver PowerPoint presentations
  • Effective negotiation skills
  • Strong inter-personal and communication skills.


Desirable requirements                
Legal skills must be complemented by related management skills / business knowledge to:
  • Handle the complete range of business issues
  • Assess and respond to priorities
  • Inspire sufficient confidence in management / contribute to the realisation of business objectives.
  • Highly developed business and people management skills.
  • A sound commercial awareness and practical approach
  • Good commercial judgement; ability to understand the aims of the BAT business;
  • Advanced communication skills, including excellent writing skills and the ability to create and present power point presentations to top management
  • Effective negotiation skills
  • High degree of self-motivation and initiative
  • Ability to work well as a member of a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional team.


Working at BAT

British American Tobacco is all about freedom of choice — whether it’s our people or our products. Combined with our entrepreneurial spirit, it’s what’s driven our phenomenal success.   We started trading tobacco over a hundred years ago. Today, we’re a multibillion dollar company with more than 200 brands in our portfolio. With robust positions in each of our regional markets, our future looks equally bright too.

There’s no doubt our industry is controversial — we’re the first to admit that. But rest assured, we take a responsible approach to our trade. In each of our markets, we observe every local law regarding tobacco (in many cases going further through our own voluntary code). Not only that, we treat our farmers fairly, invest in the environment and help to sustain local communities.

We also excel at developing our own people into leaders of the future. As a firm with a high-performance culture, we’ll expect a lot from you. But we’ll support you every step of the way to help you deliver. If you’re passionate and ambitious, rapid career progression is a reality here. And because we’re such a large firm (we employ more than 55,000 people worldwide), there are plenty of exciting opportunities for you to develop a truly extraordinary career.

Application Deadline

06-February-2018

How to Apply

Interested persons should apply here

Good Luck!!!

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