Legal Advisor

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.

What you'll be doing

Organizational:

- Follows all relevant Group policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner
- Operates within the strategic direction of the legal department, ensuring appropriate service levels are maintained and effective support and guidance is provided to the business

Operational:

- Provide accurate, high quality and timely legal advice on a variety of legal topics, including those of a complex nature with limited to no supervision to the Group and its partners
- Manage an up-to-date dossier for all entities under the assigned vertical, maintaining registration/incorporation documents, legal correspondence and commercial agreements and shall be responsible for all corporate governance and legal compliance matters related to these entities;
- Review, draft and negotiate a wide variety of corporate documents, commercial agreements and legal correspondences;
- Develop contract models and templates as necessary;
- Incorporate or liquidate entities in various jurisdictions;
- Research, analyze and convey timely updates on the development of legal and policy environments that would have an impact on the Group's business
- Identify new areas for compliance and support the Legal Leadership team to develop the Group's compliance policies and procedures
- Liaise with government officials, business divisions, external law offices, brand principles, JV companies and management on various legal matters
- Lead and draft all corporate by-laws, resolutions, and minutes;
- Undertake routine administrative tasks including filing records and performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned from time to time.

Requirements

What you'll need to succeed

- At least 4-5 years of post-qualification experience as a corporate and commercial in-house lawyer with a reputed luxury and fashion company or law firm - Bachelor's degree in Law.
- Excellent command of English (French and Arabic would be an added advantage)
- Experience in Contract Law and Corporate Governance in the Middle East
- Ability to work in an international and dynamic business environment
- Ability to quickly embrace constant change and can demonstrate strong business acumen
- Possesses strong legal analytical, communication, negotiation and problem solving skills
- Proficient with Computers and Microsoft Office

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 Role Legal Advisor

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.