Legal Specialist

Job description / Role

eMagine law is currently hiring exclusively and confidentially for a global giant in Saudi Arabia. You’ll be the go-to legal partner for day-to-day commercial work, governance, regulatory matters, and the occasional dispute helping the business move fast, but safely.

This is an opportunity to grow and develop your legal career at a true global conglomerate and the chance to work with some of the finest legal minds in the GCC region.

The day to day:

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts (end-to-end)
• Making contracts easier for the business: templates, clause libraries, playbooks, fallback positions (Arabic/English)
• Supporting strategic projects and cross-border work when needed
• Handling entity lifecycle in KSA (and potentially GCC): formations, licensing, renewals, amendments, etc. (MISA, MoC and other authorities)
• Keeping governance tidy and audit-proof: POAs, signing authorities, constitutional docs, authority matrices
• Advising stakeholders across Procurement, Commercial, Finance, HR, Tax, Internal Audit, Logistics, Marketing, IT
• Managing regulatory filings / inspections / responses with government bodies (Arabic + English)
• Supporting pre-litigation strategy, legal notices, settlement frameworks, and coordinating external counsel when things escalate

Your background:
• LLB (Masters is a plus)
• Licensed / eligible to be licensed in Saudi Arabia
• 5+ years PQE with strong Saudi law exposure (law firm and/or in-house)
• Confident drafting and negotiating complex contracts under Saudi law
• Solid working knowledge of KSA frameworks (e.g. Companies Law, Labour Law, PDPL, competition, anti-bribery)
• A commercial mindset: you can triage risk, give clear advice, and help people make decisions
• Strong Arabic legal drafting + professional English drafting/negotiation
• Comfortable with Microsoft 365, CLM tools, e-signature platforms, legal research tools

About the Company

eMagine Solutions is one of the leading authorities on leadership and talent globally. Our combined resources of over 100 years professional experience mean that our clients trust us with finding them the top talent globally and candidates trust us to find them the right opportunity in a timely and confidential manner.

Throughout our offices we provide complete solutions for our clients, including traditional temporary and permanent recruitment, executive search, recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), salary survey's, market mapping and training and development courses.

Our global client list work with us not only because of our expertise but also because of our honesty, integrity and passion.