Group Legal Advisor

الوصف الوظيفي
Role Objective
• The Legal Advisor is responsible to provide the final recommendations for the risk management plans providing key potential areas upon adoption such plan, and clarify in-advance a thorough troubleshooting for each orientation.
• The job holder is responsible to play as the key person in formulating strategies for legal issues; internal consultation, contract reviews, compliance with laws, group-public reputation…etc. that ensure proper utilization of resources with
eliminating the chance of legal risks.
• The job holder is responsible to scan, oversee, monitor, audit and control legal considerations and potential matters that ensure the legal security of the group; assets, reputation, owners and employees rights, furthermore, recommending
actions and constructing best practises among communications, forms…etc.
• The job holder is responsible to facilitate, arrange, record, and collaborate in Senior Management Meetings and other Committee Meetings that ensure corporate knowledge; data and information flow, proper tracking, full capacity and utilization out of meeting and covering the legal side.
• The job holder is responsible to provide day to day legal support and legal consultation to all the Business Units and Service Units in the Group, when and where required.
Detailed Roles and Responsibilities:
Principal Responsibilities:
• Initiate, construct, formulate, draft, required legal documents, and provide legal opinion about existing legal problems or
potential problem.
• Prepare, review, consult, and recommend all drafts and final contracts and or legal documents, agreements ensuring
legality; potential profits, development, consortia, shareholders, confidentiality, exclusivity and participates in
negotiations with concerned parties.
• Recommend and clarify changeable environment how can affect legality of the contacts or decisions; provide trouble
shooting of plan and review all considerations against changeable laws or other circumstances which is critical side against
legality of any.
• Establishment of best practice legal processes throughout the organization; using legal formats for routine contracting,
legal historical or database for proper actions toward repetitive matters, and ready list of frequently-asked-questions, as
appropriate.
• Initiate, create, consult, and solicit with creative legal solutions when facing problems or potential of having problems;
agreements misuse or misunderstanding, improper utilization of a Group property…etc.  • Coordinate, monitor and maintain the legal files and records when these are entrusted to external legal firms, even to
lawyers for business litigations or sometimes business problems.
• Collaborate associate, and / or consult and / or negotiate proposals with BUs, SUs, clients, partners, or any other
stakeholders in order to ensure that they are lawful and satisfy the requirements of the Group and to ensure that the
negotiation goes on the right side for the Group.
• Handle specific legal issues for the shareholders such as contracts, collections and discipline when required as well as
oversee third-party consultants.
• Assists in providing legal opinion with respect to legality of policies and procedures adopted by the company for Human
Resources, or other operations, as desired and requested.
• Set up the overall Governance Compliance system for newly approved and ongoing companies and projects, and train key
project staff in application of core Compliance methods and data management tools as per the needs of each company
and project.
• Participate and attend investigation when and where required.
• Prepare and send out legal correspondence and notices.
• Advise the management in selection of external legal firms where outsourcing legal services is necessary.
• Provide advice in respect of general commercial matters including but not limited Intellectual Property, distributorship,
franchising, and different financial legal issues.
• Handling the Group business, commercial and employees’ cases and provide proper legal advice on them.
Continuous Improvement:
• Ensure continuous improvements and enhancements to the existing systems and processes to support better reporting
to Group CEO.
• Manage and increase the effectiveness of business units and service units, through effective legal support and
continuous improvements to ensure constant communication within the Group.
People Management:
• Manage direct reports in their day-to-day tasks and guide them in managing their performance by providing appropriate
feedback and counselling.
• Properly allocate work to Employees, conduct performance reviews, plan and manage Employees leave and overtime to
ensure efficiency.
• Ensure that appropriate HR and Business standards of conduct are established and complied with.
• Maintain relationships with government agencies, clients, and other relevant external stakeholders and continually
manage and monitor the same.

المهارات
Educational Qualification
• University graduate with a degree in Law / Business Law, or similar discipline.
• MBA in Law.
Special or Technical Certifications:
• CMA Certified.
• Business Commercial Law Certified (is preferable)
Area of Experience and Duration:
• 12+ years of Law experience in a similar capacity, preferably in a Group of Companies, with a minimum 5 years of
experience in the UAE and Middle East Markets.
• Strong experience in Real Estate, Hospitality, Healthcare, Education, Insurance, Logistics businesses.
• Proven strong contracts drafting and negotiation skills.
• Proven ability to act as a strategic formulator, having experience in large corporations on high managerial level.
• Solid background on the following; company laws, labour laws, taxation, contracts, management of litigations, insurance,
property and real estate.
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• Proven and long experienced in legal litigations.
• Extensive trial experience in commercial, civil and criminal laws.
• Representing individuals and corporate clients in commercial, civil and criminal hearings.
• Enforcement of contracts actions for the recovery of damages based on contract and tort.
• Experienced in police interviewing and hearing processes and handling problems at police stations and public
prosecutors and collecting all Group outstanding.
• Experience in building and maintaining contractual relationships.
• Familiarity with projects work standards and regulations.
• Ability to play as problem solver in analysing and solving problems on a timely manner
• Strong interpersonal and management skills.
• Strong attention to details skills.
• Languages: English is mandatory.
Special Knowledges and Experience:
• Analytical capacity, rigour, great negotiation, team player and relational skills are essential personal qualities needed to work in this capacity in the Group.
• Proven ability to act as a problem solver, analytical and accurate, negotiator and in a proactive manner.
• Advanced ability to manage timing issues and to meet deadlines and to act as a stress resistant which need high level of planning, communication and coordination characteristics.
• Hands-on and experience-on Law and Ethics related to commercial law, contracts, industrial property and intellectual property, marketing and consumption, labor law, and environment.
• Experience in Real Estate and Construction, gained through work in major and complex projects.
• Negotiation skills, with experienced in cooperative litigation negotiation disputes.
In-Depth Problem Solving and Analysis:
• Solving difficult problems through careful and systematic evaluation of information, possible alternatives and consequences.
• Capable of generating good solutions to difficult problems. By considering many sources of information, systematically process and evaluate the information against possible courses of action, and carefully deliberate before a final decision is
made.
Adapting to Change:
• Adapting to changing situations and restructuring tasks and priorities as changes occur within the business and the
organization.
• Flexible in changing circumstances.
• Open to change and different ways of doing things, and do not over rely on old methods and processes.
Functional Acumen:
• Having the skills, knowledge and abilities necessary to be effective in the specific functional content of a job.
• Competent in the important functional areas required in the job, and have the necessary education, training or experience to do their jobs well.
Delivering Results:
• Maintaining a high level of commitment to personally getting things done.
• Assume personal responsibility in achieving outcomes, work effectively with little direction, dependable and responsible.
Quality Focus:
• Promoting and maintaining high standards of quality at work
• People who display this competency consistently produce high quality work. They apply discipline and a detail orientation to their work activities and constantly look for ways to improve the quality of products or services. they encourage others to have high quality standards in their work.
Continuous Improvement:
• Seeking opportunities to improve current processes, systems and methods to promote reliability, quality and efficiency of output.
• Committed to improve the current work processes; apply discipline and a detail orientation to their own work activities and constantly look for ways to help improve the quality, efficiency, or effectiveness of specific and general work
processes and encourage others to apply similar discipline to achieve continuous improvement.

تفاصيل الوظيفة
منطقة الوظيفة دبي, الإمارات العربية المتحدة
قطاع الشركة إدارة المرافق
طبيعة عمل الشركة صاحب عمل (القطاع الخاص)
الدور الوظيفي الشؤون القانونية
نوع التوظيف دوام كامل
الراتب الشهري غير محدد
عدد الوظائف الشاغرة غير محدد
الرقم المرجعي للوظيفة JB3851077
المرشح المفضل
المستوى المهني إدارة

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