Senior Counsel, Legal, for Saudi Arabia

Lenovo; Riyadh; On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Sr. Legal Counsel to join their dynamic team in Riyadh. This role involves managing diverse legal matters, including contract negotiations and compliance with local regulations. You will work closely with business teams to minimize legal risks and provide proactive legal advice. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of legal experience, a law degree, and fluency in Arabic and English. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a forward-thinking company that values innovation and integrity while fostering a collaborative work environment.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Employee Referral Bonus

Children of Lenovo Employees Scholarship Program

Employee Assistance Program

Internal E-learning Development Platform

Qualifications

• 10+ years of legal experience in law firms or as in-house counsel.
• Ability to communicate effectively in Arabic and English.
• Proven track record in building strong relationships with clients.

Responsibilities

• Handle a wide range of legal matters arising from Lenovo’s operations.
• Support contract drafting and negotiation, ensuring compliance.
• Advise on employment law issues and handle commercial disputes.

Skills

Legal experience

Contract drafting

Compliance with local laws

Employment law

Risk management

Communication skills

Relationship building

Proactive legal advice

Education

Law degree

Job description

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Description and Requirements

Lenovo is hiring a Sr. Legal Counsel, based in Riyadh, to be part of our EMEA Region Legal Team.

Your responsibility will be as generalist, to 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 conduct of all of Lenovo’s employees (which involves proactively training to employees, advising employees and in some cases investigating conduct), handling and advising on employment law issues, and handling commercial disputes and litigation.

As a successful candidate for this role, you have demonstrated the ability to:

• 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.

The role reports directly to Lenovo’s EMEA General Counsel.

As and ideal candidate you have the following skill sets and characteristics:

• 10 + years of legal experience within a law firm or as inhouse 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.

What we offer you :

• Medical Insurance
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Children of Lenovo Employees Scholarship Program
• Employee Assistance Program, e.g., for health, legal & financial consultancy
• Internal E-learning Development Platform Available for Employees

Location:

We are looking forward to discussing this role with you!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.

Additional Locations: * Saudi Arabia

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