Legal Counsel

Job description / Role

Inspire | Exhilarate | Delight

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750 experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up "The Greenhouse", which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

The Role

As a Legal Counsel, based in our offices in Riyadh, you will provide legal expertise, working on contract drafting, corporate matters, intellectual property, and real estate.

What you'll be doing

• Follow all relevant Group policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Implement activities under minimal supervision.
• Escalate complex problems to the relevant person to ensure case or issue is closed efficiently and in a timely manner.
• Prepare a wide variety of legal documents under the Senior Legal Manager supervision.
• Develop and/or review drafts of contracts and agreements.
• Conduct legal and factual research and data analysis as directed.
• Provide legal analysis of contractual and regulatory issues.
• Convey legal advice and follow-up information to manager, in consultation with attorneys or external lawyers, regarding the legal implications, risks, and liabilities of proposed and actual policies, practices, and contractual situations.
• Negotiate specific contractual issues and agreements with external entities as appropriate.
• Participate in meetings and conferences pertaining to resolution of contracting issues.
• Participate in the review of new legislation requiring contractual compliance, and implement systems required to obtain compliance.
• Develop contracts to achieve compliance and negotiate legal issues as appropriate.
• Establish, maintain, process, and/or oversee files, correspondence, databases, records, certificates and/or other documents.
• Liaise with government officials, business divisions, external law offices, brand principals, joint venture companies and management on various legal issues.
• Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
• Provide support in intellectual property protection and commercial proceedings.
• Liaise with trademark agents for registering various trademarks.
• Prepare and negotiate licenses and other contracts for protection of IP assets.
• Liaise in regard to patent, trademark, copyright, antitrust, trade secret, right of publicity, and unfair competition issues with external law offices.
• Participate in relevant projects and community activities as and when needed.

What you'll need to succeed

• You possess at least 2 to 4 years of legal drafting experience in a fast-paced environment.
• You have experience in commercial legal drafting.
• You possess a Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Law.
• You are a fluent Arabic and English speaker.
• You have a thirst for knowledge, are proactive, and have the ability to self-manage.
• You possess strong communication skills.

What we can offer you

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

We invite all applicants to apply

It takes diversity of thought, culture, background, differing abilities and perspectives to truly inspire, exhilarate and delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.

Department: Legal & Compliance

About the Company

The Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East since 1955. As an expert in retail, distribution and marketing services based in Dubai, the group has become a major player in the fashion, beauty and gift sectors regionally.

By blending its Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury, Chalhoub Group is building brands in the region, by offering service excellence to all its partners and a unique experience to its customers through its passionate teams.

With a growing workforce of more than 9,000 people, implemented in 14 countries, as well as the operating of over 470 retail outlets, the group's success is attributed to its most valued asset of highly skilled and dedicated teams. Professionalism and passion are what fuel the Chalhoub Group's competitive edge in today's market.

By being committed to implementing sustainable practices into their business, the Chalhoub Group has been awarded in 2013 the CSR Label from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce.