Senior Legal Counsel / Head of Contracts

Ali Bin Ali

Doha, Qatar

QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Law.
• A Professional Certified by a reputed awarding body in corporate and regulatory compliance is preferred.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience and out of which 3 years in a similar organization such as ABA is a must.
• Fluent in English and Arabic (written and oral).
• Ability to work independently and in a team.
• Attention to detail and thoroughness.
• Shows an interest in industry bodies and a willingness to contribute and share knowledge.
• Good drafting skills and the ability to interpret business processes into legally sound documents.
• Able to interact confidently with senior executives.
• Focused individual who is able to execute effectively, planning own outputs and meet specified deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively, professional, diplomatic, cordial and collaborate sensitively with others.
• Ability to influence and build good relationships at all levels in order to effectively carry out responsibilities.
• Be able to conduct meetings and presentations skillfully.
• Ability to draft high quality communication material.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To act as support in providing systemic legal advice to the business and in developing and implementing new operational systems and schemes of training to empower colleagues within the business to operate within acceptable business risk parameters with a degree of autonomy.
• Assists in the studies and researches and also ensures compliance of the legal process with the best practice laws and corporate legal standards.
• Shape the legal strategy of the organization.
• Develop and implement legal policies and procedures
• Handle complex legal matters/contracts and mitigate legal risks and liaise with external legal counsel.
• Draft, review and negotiate contracts/agreements with contractors, suppliers and any other service providers.
• Interfacing with 3rd Parties and Suppliers on legal matter related to the organization, its affiliates and sister companies
• To advise on property matters (contentious and non-contentious) within the Group.
• To progressively provide supporting day-to-day intellectual property, commercial and contract law advice, mainly assisting internal clients in relation to confidentiality agreements, standard contractual terms, and on bespoke advanced transactional agreements including funding agreements, collaboration agreements, contractual joint ventures and complex.
• Revision of legal translation as may be required.
• Represent the company in legal proceedings.
• Manage legal budgets and resources.
• Oversees internal investigations and audits.
• Provide the necessary support to the Legal Management in developing the medium to long term vision.
• Participate in the achievement of the department’s strategic objectives.
• Participate in protecting the company’s interests from potential risks on all transactions.
• Ensures that the organization and its subsidiaries, affiliates, are up to date with the current and existing law on corporate related matters.
• Uses innovative solutions to facilitate improvement at multiple functional levels.
• Guides, Advises and provide thought leadership to colleagues with the legal dept, and the divisions.