Commercial Lawyer - Excellent Opportunity for Saudi Commercial Lawyers
SIEMENS -
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaPosted 5 years ago80People have clicked1 open position
Job Details
Experience Needed:
Career Level:
Education Level:
Salary:
Job Categories:
Skills And Tools:
Job Description
At Siemens, we are on a constant search for bright and innovative minds to fill our ranks. If you are a fast learner, creative, able to work with multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teams and have a strong desire to be a winner. We are currently looking for an experienced commercial lawyer to join our legal team in Saudi Arabia.
What are my responsibilities?
- Provide business-oriented legal solutions and advice mainly to Business Units of our Smart Infrastructure and Digital Industries businesses and to our Corporate Departments in Saudi Arabia.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of contracts and other legal documents.
- Review and analyze tender documents in public and private tenders; and provide pragmatic recommendations to appropriately address identified risks and opportunities.
- Provide holistic legal input to structured enterprise risk management processes.
- Professionally manage claims during contract/project execution phase to mitigate risks and capture opportunities.
- Handle commercial disputes in a smart and economical manner through a variety of conflict resolution mechanisms such as settlement negotiations, ADR, arbitration, and litigation.
- Properly retain and manage outside counsel where additional external legal support is needed.
- Ensure a timely and systematic corporate housekeeping for our local legal entities.
- Establish yourself as a trusted advisor to the management of the local Smart Infrastructure and Digital Industries businesses.
- Pro-actively collaborate with experts from other departments and with Legal and Compliance team members from Siemens Headquarters and other countries on cross-functional and cross-border topics.
- Contribute to an excellent knowledge management within both our Saudi Legal team and our global Legal community through creation and communication of up-to-date knowledge assets such as automated templates, interactive quick guides, key lessons learned, etc. to our sales, procurement, and other staff.
Job Requirements
- Excellent academic legal background; additional overseas education from an accredited law school is a plus.
- At least 5 years of relevant in-house or reputable law firm PQE; strong background in commercial contracts and litigation experience in various Saudi courts is a plus.
- In-depth knowledge of and sufficient work experience in dealing with relevant commercial/corporate laws and regulations in B2B driven environments.
- Flexible, solution-oriented, pro-active, hands-on, and self-motivated attitude, good business acumen, and the capability of providing both operational and strategic legal guidance.
- Outstanding communication skills and ability to work effectively with team members and cross-functional partners from different cultural and professional backgrounds.
- Strong analytical, learning, research, drafting, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and to manage multiple tasks in a dynamic corporate environment.
- Professional ethics and identification with Siemens company values.
- Proficiency in working with relevant software such as MS Office; a genuine interest for new trends in legal technology is a plus.
- Business-fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English;
- Flexibility to travel.
