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This role directly supports regional account and market development teams within MEA and acts as primary counsel to Mastercard’s Regional, Product & Processing teams located in MEA tasked with ensuring the MEA product and services development and product and services distribution legal requirements and priorities are identified and supported, on a timely and proactive basis, through direct support and through coordination and collaboration with other MEA region counsel, the legal leads for each of the product verticals, and other colleagues.
- Partner with the sales, customer delivery, product, technology, franchise, compliance, marketing, communications and others to develop, launch and deliver innovative products and solutions that differentiate MasterCard and meet our customers’ and cardholders’ rapidly changing needs.
- Engage and assist clients in managing and mitigating legal and commercial risks.
- Manage tactical and strategic legal support related to our products and solutions to drive sustained scalable distribution, adoption and acceptance of our products & services both physical and digital payments and advance Mastercard’s corporate objectives.
- Collaborate with in-house and external specialists (including data protection, information security, regulatory, intellectual property, litigation and competition law counsel) to identify relevant issues and help the business effectively navigate risk.
- Draft and negotiate a wide range of contracts (including complex brand, product and technology agreements, and customer/vendor agreements) to drive issuer and merchant acceptance and consumer adoption of our products and payments solutions.
- Ensure the monitoring and evaluation of applicable laws and government regulations affecting the operation and activities of our applicable products and activities (in coordination with colleagues).
- Partner with colleagues to develop and present policy and regulatory positions related to Mastercard’s services with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Assist with the creation of training materials, product guides, franchise rules, and development activities to advance the business objectives in a compliant manner in accordance with company policies.
Job Requirements
- Law Degree (JD or LLM) from accredited U.S. law school and/or equivalent degree from a jurisdiction in the UK or in the MEA Region (with particular emphasis on UAE).
- Good client management skills with strong project management, interpersonal, collaborative and client communication skills.
- PQE experience, including some time working in-house, preferably at a multinational company. Extensive experience in drafting and negotiating agreements.
- Relevant post-qualification experience in general commercial legal matters in a reputable law firm and/or as in-house lawyer for a multinational company, preferably in the financial services, banking or technology sector.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and, preferably, Arabic
- Strong drafting and negotiations skills with the ability to manage complex issues as well as support multi-stakeholder forward thinking product development build, launch and run stage requirements, factoring in legal, market and customer requirements and expectations
- Must be interested in significant contact with business clients on a daily basis with respect to transactional issues as well as other strategic issues;
- Must have a strategic mindset and be able to effectively discuss with and advise management regarding complex legal matters and challenging situations.
- Must be able to contribute and operate effectively within a diverse multicultural organization.
