Senior Legal Advisor

Functional Accountabilities:

To performs below legal tasks in a good manner and standard, to ensure that all legal works are performed as per standard required and in line with Panda and Panda subsidiaries interest.

• Providing a strategic legal advice counsel, support, and assistance (including legal opinions and legal research) on various high-level legal issues (disciplinary, contract, association, governance, risk management and contentious matters) related to strategic and executive matters.
• Drafting and negotiating simple and complex contracts,
• Advising on general business law issues and managing the legal issues of all areas of the company, including but not limited to corporate matters, procurement, security, and insurance,
• Enhancing Company Policy and Regulations to comply with laws.
• Enhancing various contracts and other legal documents.
• Providing prompt and concise legal advice and specific business and effective solutions-driven support to all the Company departments.
• Ensuring the provision of excellent negotiating of Contracts and Agreements with Customers, Service Providers and Suppliers in a timely and effective way to deliver the best outcome for the Company’s interests.
• Support Company Department in managing their Contracts and Agreements.
• Developing new policies and procedures
• Conducting trainings and awareness sessions to Company Departments to pro-actively create and maintain awareness of business employees for (compliance with) relevant laws and regulations
• To secure compliance of business operations with relevant laws and regulations,
• Supporting corporate team in relation to corporate transactions, including drafting and negotiation of supporting documentation and transaction management.
• Ability to lead and manage the resolution of complex legal issues.
• Implements legally compliant best business practices and policies in order to protect the Organization from regulatory and/or legal action or implications.
• To provide mentoring and supervision to less experienced legal staff
• To develop, implement, manage, and monitor legal team quality improvement processes and practices.
• To assist on any matter and perform other duties, from time to time as required.
• To prepare reports, submissions, or opinions for or on behalf of the Legal Department on legal and policy issues affecting the interests of the Company.
• To ensure all work:
• is well researched.
• considers multiple options and impacts where appropriate.
• is understandable to the targeted audience.
• meets agreed timeframes.
• Represent the department as required in liaison with your line manager and head of the department.

• Minimum of 7-10 years of related work experience
• Professional qualifications to include membership in the Ministry of Justice or similar (preferred)
• Experience in Company and corporate law and in performing legal work in related Companies.
• Experience in employment law and in performing legal work.
• Thorough knowledge of the laws of KSA
• Knowledge of regulatory environment affecting retail sector in KSA.
• Thorough knowledge of judicial procedures and rules.
• Thorough knowledge of court and legal procedures.
• Ability to provide guidance and advice on legal/policy and legislative issues, and the ability to negotiate through collaboration
• Ability to perform legal research
• To provide other legal and strategic advice to the Contract Manager, Head of Department, and other Legal staff, as required.
• Excellent command of both written and spoken official languages (English and Arabic) is essential.
• Enthusiasm and a passion for working as a team member
• Excellent in computer skills
• willing to work and travel occasionally within the working days and on weekends