Paralegal (UAE National – Fresh Graduate)

Job Description

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up "The Greenhouse", which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles.

Organizational:

– Follows all relevant Group policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner
– Operates within the strategic direction of the legal department, ensuring appropriate service levels are maintained and effective support and guidance is provided to the business

Operational:

– Support with accurate, high quality and timely legal advice on a variety of legal topics, including those of a complex nature with limited to no supervision to the Group and its partners
– Support with an up-to-date dossier for all entities under the assigned vertical, maintaining registration/incorporation documents, legal correspondence and commercial agreements and shall be responsible for all corporate governance and legal compliance matters related to these entities;
– Support with drafting and negotiating a wide variety of corporate documents, commercial agreements and legal correspondences;
– Support in contract models and templates as necessary;
– Research, analyze and convey timely updates on the development of legal and policy environments that would have an impact on the Group’s business
– Identify new areas for compliance and support the Legal Leadership team to develop the Group’s compliance policies and procedures
– Liaise with government officials, business divisions, external law offices, brand principles, JV companies and management on various legal matters
– Support and draft all corporate by-laws, resolutions, and minutes;
– Support routine administrative tasks including filing records and performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned from time to time.