Legal Director, Professional Services, Riyadh

Legal Director, Professional Services, Riyadh

It’s common knowledge that Saudi’s economy is growing and diversifying at the moment, but what if you could join a company at the heart of supporting that ambition?

Our client is a global leader in professional services, supporting Saudi government services across a wide variety of projects covering employment, training, healthcare and social governance.

This is an extremely good opportunity for an ambitious lawyer who wants to join a multinational standard environment, with deep KSA expertise, and be well rewarded for your efforts.

So why this role in particular?

• Building opportunity - currently without a dedicated on the ground lawyer, this will be their first hire in KSA.
• Multi-national thinking – join a global corporate.
• Added value – this role truly supports KSA economic growth.

What you’ll be doing:

• Essentially a corporate and commercial role, but as is normal in-house, anything can come up.
• Taking a control of contracts and contract management, in drafting, negotiating and executing.
• Handling compliance and risk management issues, as well as corporate governance and disputes.

Who you’ll likely need to be in order to succeed:

• It’s essential that you have fluent, business level Arabic, and you need to be a KSA national.
• As a Director level position, you’ll likely need at least 10+ years of post qualified experience as a lawyer.
• The legal skill set is general corporate and commercial, additional experience across compliance, employment and regulatory is helpful.

Job number: 022025-282049

Note that the job advertised here represents just a selection of all the in-house roles we have running across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa region from our hub office in Dubai.

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