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Based in Cairo, the Legal Manager is accountable for delivering senior legal leadership and advice for the legal affairs and legal risk management for Bupa Egypt, as well as other key strategic and legal projects.
Main Responsibilities:
- Accountable for advising on legal affairs and legal risk management within the legal risk management framework set by the Legal Director, Bupa Global (BG)
- Responsibility for developing new and innovative ways of managing legal risk across all of Bupa Egypt businesses
- Supports the Legal Director, BG in undertaking long term planning for the management of the legal affairs of Bupa Egypt
- Supports the Legal Director, BG in managing contentious matters affecting Bupa Egypt businesses
- Responsibility for developing know-how, templates, legal training and education for the global legal team and business partners
- Responsibility for developing new and innovative ways of managing legal risk in Bupa Egypt and develops policies and processes for areas within the role’s sphere of influence
- Works with business partners to ensure that a positive legal risk and governance culture is embedded
- Protects Bupa’s brand and intellectual property
- Ensures high standards of corporate governance to meet executive and statutory obligations, including reporting obligations to Bupa Centre
- Instructing and managing external legal counsel as required
- All accountabilities to be carried out in line with the BG Legal framework and direction of the Legal Director, BG
Job Requirements
- Good first degree and a qualified lawyer admitted to Egypt.
- Experience in private practice and/or an in-house team supporting regulated insurance or financial services businesses. Relevant sector experience is highly advantageous.
- Fluency in Arabic and English.
- Experience of leading and managing legal risk in a regulated financial services environment, ideally with experience of dealing with multiple regulatory frameworks in different jurisdictions
- Experience of making risk-based decisions in a complex operating environment with multiple competing demands
- Ability to work effectively in a matrix environment and to ensure that legal risks are managed efficiently, effectively and consistently.
- Strong and demonstrable ability to influence across a matrixed environment where collaboration is a crucial skill.
- Ability to take a broad view of commercial and organizational issues and objectives and to evaluate legal and operational risks in the context of other risks.
- Experience of operating successfully in an international and regulatory challenging environment.
- Credibility to develop strong relationships with senior stakeholders, including the confidence to challenge as appropriate.
- A global mindset and customer orientation.
- Flexible approach to work including location, hours and practices.
- Ability to operate as part of a team where not all colleagues will be based in the same office/location
- Ability to operate in an unstructured and fluid environment with remote supervision.
- Superior business and risk-based approach to lawyering.
- A team player who is able to work effectively across different and diverse teams.
- Demonstrated ability to deal with conflict and drive for results.
- Tenacious with high attention to detail, strong planning, and organizational skills.
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