Paralegal, Manager Legal Services Operations
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About the Role
Provide legal support for hotel operations and asset management, drafting agreements, managing inquiries, and ensuring compliance in a fast-paced environment.
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Responsibilities
- Serve as principal point of contact for hotel managers and operational teams seeking legal support
- Draft, review, negotiate, and amend a wide range of operational agreements
- Prepare and manage internal corporate approvals and coordinate execution of agreements
- Draft renewal, non renewal and termination correspondence
- Support asset management attorneys on acquisitions, financings and dispositions
- Conduct and summarise legal research
- Instruct and manage external legal counsel on local law or specialist matters
- Maintain and update internal legal databases and precedent resources
Requirements
- Relevant university degree or equivalent professional experience
- Demonstrable experience supporting transactional or general corporate legal work
- Experience supporting complex, high volume legal workstreams in a fast paced corporate environment
- Exposure to commercial, operational or asset related agreements within a multinational organisation is highly desirable
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Clear, concise drafting skills with strong attention to detail
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Teams and legal workflow tools
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Position Summary
- Supports Marriott International's lodging business across EMEA by providing practical, solutions focused legal support for hotel operations and asset management.
- Based in Dubai, sits within the EMEA Law Department and reports to the Vice President & Senior Legal Counsel.
- Acts as key point of contact for hotel leadership and above property teams.
Operational Legal Support
- Serve as principal point of contact for hotel managers and operational teams seeking legal support.
- Support day to day legal needs of managed hotels, franchise support organisation, and above property disciplines.
- Monitor and respond to legal enquiries via email and online portals.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and amend operational agreements including vendor, procurement, IT, sales, marketing, sponsorship, influencer, partnership, F&B, spa, fitness, loyalty, group sales, airline, and travel agency agreements.
- Review documents for compliance with Marriott's standard contractual requirements.
- Prepare and manage internal corporate approvals and coordinate execution of agreements.
- Draft renewal, non renewal and termination correspondence, and assist with amendments to management and franchise agreements.
- Support asset management attorneys on acquisitions, financings and dispositions.
- Conduct and summarise legal research.
- Instruct and manage external legal counsel.
- Draft and respond to legal correspondence, memoranda and internal audit enquiries.
- Maintain and update internal legal databases and precedent resources.
Candidate Profile
- Relevant university degree or equivalent professional experience with demonstrable experience supporting transactional or general corporate legal work.
- Experience supporting complex, high volume legal workstreams in a fast paced corporate environment.
- Exposure to commercial, operational or asset related agreements within a multinational organisation is highly desirable.
- Strong project management skills with ability to prioritise, multitask and meet competing deadlines.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Clear, concise drafting skills with strong attention to detail and sound judgement.
- Proactive, collaborative working style with ability to operate independently.
- High degree of professionalism, discretion and integrity.
- Ability to remain calm and effective under pressure.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Strong written and verbal English language skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Teams and legal workflow tools.
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