Job Description

• Draft, review, negotiate, strategize, document commercial transactions, contracts, and other legal arrangements including distribution, supply, services, sub-contracts, and procurement transactions, both with Governments agencies and private partners.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with local leadership and other strategic partners; proactively engage and advise colleagues on the prioritization of risks and to identify, monitor and improve key processes and internal controls.
• In coordination with Legal Counsel for Africa, develop and implement appropriate approaches to dispute resolution, lawsuits, and arbitrations; provide regular, clear communication of litigation issues and opportunities to the affected business and other stakeholders.
• Provide effective, strong and well researched legal advice to the business, finance or other teams, in a timely and efficient manner.
• Collaborate with the EMEA, METAI and Global Legal Team on team initiatives, learning exercises and sharing of best practices.
• Constantly emphasize and demonstrate operational excellence and balanced risk-taking.
• Conduct training and education as deemed necessary or appropriate, i.e. within legal matters, legal spend.
• Assist HR colleagues with labor law support.
• Assist Quality and Regulatory Affairs colleagues with regulatory law support.
• Under Legal Counsels direction, select appropriate outside counsel and work closely with them.
• Ensure transparent and reactive reporting to Legal Counsel.
• Promote (a) use of the Compliance Hotline, (b) awareness of the Code of Conduct, and (c) understanding of new and existing compliance issues and related policies and procedures.
• Monitor and report results of compliance/ethics efforts and provide guidance to associates on compliance matters.
• Support third party due diligence screening.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in Legal, Internal Audit, HR, Finance and other core functions to direct compliance and legal issues through the appropriate channels for investigation and resolution as well as work towards future improvements to the Compliance Programs and other Legal Initiatives.
• Develop the necessary tools and resources to closely monitor and update the company with any changes of laws and regulations in RSA and in essential African countries.
• Provide escalation and recommendations to deal with evolving legal and compliance risks in Africa.
• Support Danaher and the Diagnostic Platforms compliance efforts and other initiatives and projects as needed.

At Danaher we bring together science, technology and operational capabilities to accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. Our global teams are pioneering whats next across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology and beyond. For more information, visit .At Danaher, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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