Senior Legal Affairs Counsel

Legal
Qatar 🇶🇦
January 7, 2024

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Job Summary

To monitor all legal activities of the Group to ensure that they are carried out in accordance with relevant laws, regulations, and charters of the companies within the Group. The position develops, maintains, and disseminates legal information to all stakeholders (e.g., cases, statutes, and regulations) to provide support to legal team and assures staff knowledge remains up-to-date.

Job Responsibilities 1

  • Establish the short and long-term strategy for the division, translate it into business plans with objectives and performance indicators and report on the progress of activities against those plans to measure success to support the achievement of PIH’s strategic objectives.
  • Build and lead a motivated, engaged and competent manpower throughout the division, by setting priorities and objectives, managing performance, and providing ongoing feedback and coaching to improve performance.
  • Recommend an optimum organization structure for the division in coordination with GCLO and the Human Resources, to ensure efficient and effective workflow of operational processes and optimal utilization of resources.
  • Collaborate with Human Resources in the development of the division’s manpower plan to ensure timely and best-of-class delivery of tasks.
  • Prepare and recommend the division’s budget in alignment to the respective annual business plan and ensure proper cascading into departmental budgets.
  • Handle public private partnerships (PPP) proceedings.
  • Advise on general business law issues and managing the legal issues of all areas of the company, including but not limited to corporate matters, procurement, safety, security, insurance and sustainability issues.
  • Represent the department as required in liaison with the superior.

Job Responsibilities 2

  • Cooperate and collaborate with the other members of the legal department abroad.
  • Anticipate and manage the (legal) risks connected with or resulting from the business strategy and operations.
  • Secure compliance of business operations with relevant laws and regulations.
  • Pro-actively create and maintain awareness of business employees for (compliance with) relevant laws and regulations.
  • Review all legal matters and conducts legal research and studies.
  • Provide legal advice on various matters including but not limited to contracts and agreements templates, corporate affairs, advisory to the organization business units, corporate governance, legal compliance, Joint Venture, Major Projects, disputes and employment related topics.
  • Prepare draft contracts and agreements required for Company activities and reviews contracts and agreements and submits recommendations.
  • Prepare and draft legal documents (Notices, claim, official forms, etc.) and corporate documents (Board resolutions, shareholders’ assembly, minutes of the meetings, etc.
  • Supervise and manage the company’s litigation portfolio.
  • Advice on preparing and negotiating a range of commercial and corporate agreements/documents for the group’s entities across the world.
  • Prepare shareholder agreement, AoA, Partnership deed, joint venture agreement, PPP documents etc.
  • Lead, manage and train the legal affair counsels;

Additional Responsibilities 3

Job Knowledge & Skills

• Must be able to grasp business transactions, identify and implement the legal treatment

• Excellent drafting and organizational skills

• Ability to analyze complex legal problems quickly and concisely

• Experience handling high volume of contract reviews, drafting and negotiation

• Experience handling corporate matters

• Demonstrable evidence of having worked in a role requiring extensive and continuous interaction with various internal and external stakeholders in delivery of objectives

• Extensive knowledge of corporate governance, legal and company secretarial matters

• Ability to deliver high-quality work under deadlines

• ERP knowledge preferably SAP functional skills are a requirement to be successful in this role.

Job Experience

Minimum 10 years of proven in house legal & contractual  experience (required)

Competencies

Collaboration
Accountability
Resilience
Quality
Leadership
Creates Strategy – Proficient
Drives Performance – Proficient
Develops Future Leaders – Proficient
Legal Research L4
Laws and requlations L4
Contract Law L4
Risk Management L4
Due Diligence L4

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Law

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