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What you'll be doing

As Legal Affairs Lead, you will play a key role in managing the company's legal affairs, ensuring full compliance with applicable laws and regulations, managing legal cases, reviewing and drafting contracts and agreements, and providing effective legal advice to management and the BOD to protect the company's interests and support sound business decisions.

Litigation & Legal Representation

• Manage and follow up on all legal cases of the organization and work on resolving them effectively.

• Represent the company before courts and arbitration proceedings and handle the required legal pleadings and documentation.

• Prepare legal opinions, claims, defenses, submissions, warning letters, and other legal documents.

• Manage and follow up with external lawyers' offices on pending and critical legal matters.

Advisory & Risk Management

• Provide legal advice to management and the BOD on legal matters, liabilities, and potential legal risks.

• Identify potential legal risks, develop mitigating actions, and follow up on their implementation.

Contracts, Policy & Compliance

• Review, draft, and negotiate contracts and agreements and monitor legal obligations to ensure compliance.

• Review company policies and procedures to ensure alignment with applicable laws and regulations.

• Ensure the application of company policies, ethics, rules, and regulations while supporting the company's business objectives.

Investigations & Governance

• Lead internal investigations, prepare investigation reports and legal memos, and determine appropriate administrative penalties in accordance with the Labor Law.

Stakeholder & Documentation Management

• Liaise with governmental authorities and maintain effective professional relationships with them.

• Establish and maintain an organized legal library for company contracts and agreements to ensure proper documentation and quick retrieval.

What you'll need to succeed

• 8+ years of relevant experience in Legal Affairs, including 5 years in a managerial or supervisory legal position, preferably within Pharmaceuticals, Cosmeceuticals, FMCG, or other regulated industries.

• Bachelor's degree in law.

• Licensed and registered with the Lawyers' Syndicate.

• Strong experience in legal cases, contracts, corporate legal matters, Labor Law, and governmental affairs.

• Appeal-level litigation experience with strong knowledge of court procedures and legal pleadings.

• Strong legal risk assessment, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to provide clear and practical legal advice to management.

• Strong time management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple legal matters and deadlines.

• Excellent MS Office skills and very good command of Arabic and English, written and spoken.