Sr. Counsel, Legal, Saudi Arabia
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About the Role
Lenovo seeks a Sr. Legal Counsel in Riyadh to handle a wide range of legal matters including contract drafting, compliance, and litigation. Requires 12+ years of legal experience and fluency in Arabic and English.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Handle a wide range of legal matters including contract drafting and negotiation
- Support direct sales, marketing and advertising activities
- Handle issues arising from the channel business
- Ensure compliance with competition laws and local laws (including Sharia law)
- Ensure ethical conduct of employees through training, advising, and investigating
- Handle and advise on employment law issues
- Handle commercial disputes and litigation
Requirements
- 12+ years of legal experience within a law firm or as in house counsel
- Law degree from a local or internationally recognized University
- Arabic and English (native speaker level) both in writing and speaking
- Proven track record in building strong, trust based relationships with internal clients
- Ability to interface with customers and members of large organizations
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment and handle competing demands
- Client service and results orientated
- Able to balance risk with desired business outcomes
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About Lenovo
- Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #196 in the Fortune Global 500.
- Lenovo is hiring a Sr. Legal Counsel, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to be part of our Europe and META Region Legal Team.
- The role reports directly to Lenovo’s EMEA General Counsel.
Your responsibility
- Handle a wide range of legal matters arising from Lenovo’s rapidly expanding operations in Saudi Arabia.
- This includes contract drafting and negotiation, supporting direct sales, marketing and advertising activities, handling issues arising from our channel business, ensuring compliance with competition laws, ensuring compliance with local laws (including Sharia law) and regulations, ensuring ethical c
As a successful candidate
- Develop and implement legal processes to help support business teams minimize legal risks for Lenovo.
- Communicate effectively, both within Saudi Arabia and to colleges globally from many diverse backgrounds, in a manner that is clear and proactive, about legal and business matters, providing good risk/benefit analysis and guidance to internal stakeholders.
- Collaborate with fellow internal legal counsels within EMEA, including subject matter experts across various specialist areas of law, technology experts, marketing and sales leaders, product developers, Lenovo’s manufacturing team, as well as with Lenovo’s customers and suppliers.
Ideal candidate skillsets
- 12 + years of legal experience within a law firm or as in house counsel in the areas of law mentioned above.
- Law degree from a local or internationally recognized University.
- Arabic and English (native speaker level) both in writing (particularly in legal drafting) and speaking.
- Proven track record in building strong, trust based relationships with internal clients.
- Ability to interface with customers and members of large organizations and across multiple functions.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment and handle the competing demands of business clients.
- Client service and results orientated.
- Able to balance risk with desired business outcomes and provide proactive and constructive business supportive legal advice.
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