Executive Director Legal, Corporate Affairs, HR and Administration

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of the Executive Committee and act as strategic adviser to the Managing Director and business leaders on people, organization, legal, governance, corporate affairs and administration matters.
• Translate Company, Marketing & Services and affiliate priorities into integrated HR and Legal strategies, annual roadmaps, budgets, controls and measurable objectives.
• Lead, develop and coordinate the Human Resources, Legal, Corporate Affairs, Communication and Administration teams, ensuring clear accountabilities, appropriate segregation of duties and effective succession coverage.
• HR strategy, governance and workforce planning
• Define and implement the affiliate HR strategy in alignment with business priorities, Group and M&S HR policies, Tanzania labor requirements and the affiliate social context.
• Maintain an HR operating model with clear processes, responsibilities, service standards, controls, calendars and decision rights.
• Lead workforce planning, headcount forecasting, organization reviews and people-cost planning, including permanent, contracted, graduate and expatriate populations.
• Advise management on organization design, job descriptions, grading, workforce productivity, critical roles and capability requirements.
• Organization and employment management.
• Monitor HR statutory and internal compliance, regulatory developments, audit actions and remediation plans.
• Training and Development
• Ensure training needs analysis is completed and translated into an approved annual development plan and budget.
• Govern mandatory, technical, managerial and behavioral learning and monitor access, completion, learning transfer and business impact.
• Build management capability and ensure employees who attend significant programmes cascade relevant learning within the affiliate.
• Compensation, benefits and payroll governance.
• Act as principal legal adviser for the Tanzania affiliates and provide practical, risk-based advice on corporate, commercial, employment, regulatory, land, litigation and contractual matters.
• Serve as Company Secretary for the relevant Tanzania entities and ensure effective Board and corporate-governance administration.
• Review, draft, negotiate and approve contracts and legal instruments within delegated authority, ensuring enforceability and protection of Company interests.
• Manage litigation, external counsel, debt-recovery legal actions and legal spending, and provide timely reporting on exposure and case status.
• Define and implement corporate communication, reputation, media, CSR and stakeholder-engagement plans aligned with business priorities.
• Manage relationships with government, regulators, industry bodies, associations, media and other external stakeholders.
• Provide oversight of office and staff administration, transport, fleet, facilities, travel, reception, licenses, registrations and service providers.
• Ensure administrative services are safe, compliant, cost-effective and delivered against agreed service standards.

Skills