Job Description

Reporting to Vice President – Legal, the role shall be primarily responsible for providing timely and pragmatic legal support across the business (both for corporate office functions and healthcare facilities) to ensure the business can pursue dynamic and commercially effective outcomes, while always ensuring compliance with industry leading legal and governance practices. Furthermore, shall take ownership of solving legal issues; provide timely, succinct, clear and accurate advice and legal documentation.

The Legal department advises the business across a wide range of legal issues including contract review and negotiation, regulatory developments and dispute resolution. The Legal department seeks to pro-actively identify legal risks and safeguard the business in accordance with commercial priorities & market developments and wish to hire a highly analytical mid level lawyer with corporate/commercial experience (ideally gained with a reputable law firm).

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Draft, lead negotiations and finalise a broad range of commercial agreements, memoranda of understanding, heads of terms, demand notices while always ensuring reasoned risk allocation and protection of the business’ commercial, legal and reputational interests.
• Give accurate, succinct, clear and timely counsel to facility and corporate executives and managers on a variety of legal topics (including, without limitation, corporate governance, commercial ventures, data protection, real estate, litigation, regulatory).
• Lead contract structuring and negotiation strategy for business-critical partnerships, ensuring alignment with internal policies and governance protocols.
• Take an active role in managing and advising on legal aspects related to the group’s transformation projects.
• Draft and develop contract templates, toolkits, and legal workflows for repetitive or standardised transactions.
• Project manage complex legal matters with multiple stakeholders and interests, including corporate governance requirements and contract reviews.
• Management of external counsel to ensure timely delivery of agreed deliverables within agreed budgets.
• Present to the business on key legal, risk management and contracting topics
• Maintain current knowledge of alterations and introductions of new UAE laws.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience 

• LLB or JD from a reputable university; licensed to practice law (active or recently lapsed).
• Minimum 3-6 years PQE in a corporate/commercial legal role. UAE/GCC experience preferred

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong contract drafting and negotiation experience
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity
• Extensive commercial legal experience essential
• Sound judgement and ability to analyse situations and information
• Fluent spoken and written English
• Strong communicator, presenter and collaborator who can simplify complex issues to lay colleagues
• Experience in leading negotiations, drafting and managing execution processes for complex legal documentation
• Proficient at establishing credibility quickly and building relationships at all levels, influencing a range of senior stakeholders and challenging decision making to help drive continuous improvements
• Strong project management skills, taking ownership of tasks through to completion
• Highly organized and goal oriented
• High proficiency with MS Office, including Power Point
• Healthcare industry experience helpful but not essential
• Ability to effectively operate in a fast paced, multi-cultural, multi-stakeholder large corporate environment