Senior Legal Counsel

Our business landscape

We're an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region's leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group's strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:

- **
Value-Focused Portfolio**: Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea
cable business and fintech.
- ** Strengthen the Core**: Optimally using deployed capital and maintain an appropriate cost structure.
- ** Evolve the Core**: Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing
on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.
- ** People**: Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.
- ** Excellence in Customer Experience**: Creating superior customer experiences.

From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey. We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work
- life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you're looking to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.

Job overview

This role is responsible for ensuring the Company's interests are safeguarded at all times by advising the Company on issues relating to contracts from drafting through to commercial risk limitation and in addition to represent the Company in all matters relating to contract implementation.

Your impact on our goals
**Overview**
- Provide legal support to all areas of Ooredoo's business in respect of contractual matters.
- Draft all contracts ensuring that contracts meet with all international/regulatory/ governmental/commercial standards, safeguard the company's interests, limit the risk potential and protect it from litigation.
- Resolve any issues related to contractual issues as may arise from the business.
- Maintain records of all contracts within the business, in order that they are captured, tracked and appropriately reviewed as required by the business.
- Review draft legal contracts submitted by Business Units for services provided to Ooredoo to ensure they are in the companies interests and the companies interests are safeguarded at all times.
- Represent the Company from a legal perspective in negotiating legal terms for contracts and advising the business on the implementation of contracts and be vigilant to potential risks.
- Provide advice to Contracts Section for all contract/tender process etc. to ensure compliance with the company's contractual standards.
- Provide information to other Legal departments in cases where the Company is being pursued or is instigating actions of a contractual nature.
- Liaise with all the company's external law firms/advisors as necessary.
- Undertake research on relevant laws of the land, new legislation, etc, and recommend any enhancements to the companies contracting processes or procedures to protect its interests.
- Supervise the Legal support team in respect of their day-to-day work to ensure that they are managed, developed, motivated and appraised to the highest level of performance at all times.
- Act as the main point of contact for the business concerning any contractual matters.

**M & A**
- Undertake the lead legal role on M&A transactions, engaging and managing Group attorneys and outside counsel as appropriate.
- Develop the overall legal strategy for M&A and ensure its successful implementation and dissemination
- Scope and manage due diligence strategy and process and leads its implementation
- Draft and negotiate M&A agreements and other key legal documents including term sheets, memoranda of understanding, shareholder agreements, and share purchase agreements in conjunction with the strategy department and external counsel as necessary
- Work with Group Strategy, Digital and Finance to optimize financial, tax and transaction structuring
- Provide recommendations to the Group regarding all legal aspects of M&A transactions

**Business Impact**
- This role has direct impact on the business through accountability for contractual obligations and risk mitigation.

**Costs & Profitability**
- No direct impact on costs & profitability; However, quality of advice on contractual matters/obligations has significant impact on Ooredoo's operations and business continuity (in areas of procurement, tendering, employment contracts, etc).

**Problem Solving**
- Problem solving would typically revolve around independently seeking first to understand issues relating to preventing or resolving litigation and then for finding an appropriate solution.
- Resolving day to day issues within the unit would also be done independently
- More significant problems relating to litigation cases would be taken in conjunction with external legal counsel and