Manager Legal Affairs

We are currently seeking a seasoned legal professional to serve as our Manager Legal Affairs.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic organization and play a key role in overseeing legal matters, ensuring compliance, and supporting strategic decision making.

• Act as the primary point of contact with external legal entities, such as law firms and regulatory bodies.
• Review and advise on all legal matters relating to contracts and agreements on an ongoing basis.
• Stay up-to-date with current laws and legislation, ensuring that the company meets all applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure agreement with laws and regulations and update the legal framework.
• Identify potential areas of legal vulnerability, develop and implement corrective action plans to resolve problematic issues, and advise on mitigating similar future problems.
• Manage the group's legal framework and develop and manage regulatory policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to ensure process efficiency and reporting accuracy.
• Assist in preparing, negotiating, and completing contractual documentation with customers, suppliers, or other counterparties.
• Contribute to corporate business development and other transactions, including corporate actions such as liquidation, acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures, ensuring that all legal documentation is appropriately prepared, negotiated, and completed on a timely basis.
• Provide advice on issues/subjects related to civil law, commercial companies law, tax laws, labor law, and capital market law.
• Control the quality of services external law firms and overseas counsels provide.
• Conduct internal investigations regarding legal concerns.
• Manage audits by regulatory bodies, responses to regulatory inquiries, and implementation of corrective actions if necessary.
• Develop and oversee legal monitoring and control systems to prevent or deal with violations of legal and regulatory guidelines and internal policies.
• Ensure all necessary reports are submitted to regulatory bodies on time and that appropriate records are maintained.
• Evaluate the efficiency of legal controls and improve them continuously.
• Assess the business's future ventures to identify possible legal risks.
• Implement group-wide training on all legal and regulatory matters and novelties in coordination with HR.
• Communicate effectively with employees about legal-related matters or changes in policies.
• Ensure organizational awareness of all relevant legal and regulatory requirements, including data protection, employment law, health and safety, and industry-specific regulations.
• Other tasks may be required to complete the day-to-day work in the legal department with an acting capacity and deputization in corporate secretarial and corporate governance matters.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in law (L.L.B), International Law, Commercial Law, or related field.

Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 10 years experience within a Legal role.
• Competent Arabic and English language skills mandatory.
• Experience in Bahrain along with knowledge of Bahrain laws and regulations is mandatory.
• Able to effectively delegate tasks, provide guidance and support, foster collaboration, and manage resources and deadlines.
• Effective time management, prioritization of tasks, and adaptability to changing circumstances are crucial for timely and efficient legal support and services.
• Comprehensive understanding of data protection requirements, breach notification obligations, and compliance with privacy laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• Strong foundation and comprehensive understanding of various areas of law relevant to the organization's operations.
• Knowledge of Corporate Laws, contractual laws, and data privacy.
• Knowledge of corporate governance, environmental, and social governance.
• Analytical skills and capacity to conduct thorough investigations.
• PC Proficient with MS Office Excel, MIS, and ERP systems, ideally Oracle.