Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel / Legal Director – Real Estate Development

Location: Al Khobar / Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Package: Exceptional tax free salary and benefits

Working Model: Hybrid options available

Are you ready to take your real estate development career to one of the fastest growing regions in the world? This is an outstanding opportunity for a senior lawyer to step into a major strategic role, advising on landmark projects across Saudi Arabia. For lawyers seeking top tier work, career acceleration, and a transformative financial package, this role represents a genuine step change.

The Opportunity

We are partnering with a leading organisation in Saudi Arabia that is delivering large scale real estate, mixed use development, and infrastructure programmes. The successful candidate will take on a senior advisory role with influence across project development, construction, land strategy, acquisitions, and high value commercial negotiations.

You will join a seasoned international legal team and work at the heart of a region undergoing vast economic transformation. The role offers exceptional earning potential, a high quality expatriate lifestyle, and long term career growth within a major organisation.

Key Responsibilities

You will lead and support a wide range of strategic legal work, including:

Real Estate Development and Transactions

• Drafting and negotiating development, land, leasing, licensing, and property management agreements.
• Advising on structuring large scale, mixed use development projects.
• Managing due diligence for acquisitions, land development, and investment deals.
• Ensuring compliance with local planning, zoning, and regulatory frameworks.

Construction and Infrastructure

• Preparing and negotiating high value construction and consultancy agreements.
• Supporting project delivery through contract administration, notices, variations, claims, and EOT matters.
• Advising on strategic dispute avoidance and resolution.

Strategic Commercial Advisory

• Ensuring contract governance and alignment with corporate policies.
• Managing external counsel and engineering consultancies.
• Working closely with senior leadership teams, project directors, and government authorities.

About You

We are seeking a senior lawyer with:

• 15 years plus of post qualification experience in real estate, construction, or development law.
• Strong experience managing large scale development or infrastructure projects in the Middle East, ideally Saudi Arabia.
• A solutions driven, commercially minded approach to risk and negotiation.
• The confidence to work with executive leadership, government entities, and major commercial partners.
• Fluency in English. Arabic is an advantage but not essential.

Why Move to the Eastern Province?

Al Khobar and Dammam offer a vibrant international community, modern infrastructure, world class restaurants, short flights to Bahrain, and a lower cost of living. Combined with a tax free, senior level package , generous housing and travel allowances, and a genuinely career defining role, this is one of the most attractive senior legal opportunities in the region.