Senior Legal Counsel
Job Description
The Legal Counsel is responsible for
- providing commercial legal advice and expertise as well as leading and managing legal and regulatory risks of the Company in all respects
- ensuring robust corporate and functional governance is in place for internal compliance with the support of external legal counsel
- providing a high professional standard of legal support to the Company through the application of excellent counselling, drafting and negotiation skills
- providing pragmatic and strategic advice and support to business partners and stakeholders, locally and globally
- taking a leading role in problem-solving and decision-making in all areas of the business, and consistently working to minimize and manage commercial and legal risks
- Providing marketing legal support
Skills
- Professional legal qualifications and practical commercial legal experience of not less than 7 years
- Working knowledge of Commercial, Employment, Tax Law, company secretarial management, Product and Commercial Litigations (and case management), Contract management, Compliance and Anti-trust law
- Experience in dealing with government and regulatory authorities
- High degree of business partnering
- Good commercial judgment
- Effective negotiation skills
- Strong inter-personal, oral and written communication skills.
- Appropriate level of maturity to provide credibility at senior levels externally and internally
- Proven people/teams management capabilities
- Fluency in written and spoken English and French and familiarity with legal documentation in English and Arabic languages
