Senior Corporate Legal Counsel

Job purpose:

Responsible for managing and providing legal supports for the business in Egypt's territories (“Territories”) related to all legal services including corporate laws , legal cases, employment, trademarks, assigned legal projects and contracts to ensure compliance and good governance, in addition to communicate with third parties, specified Corporate legal projects as per business needs and support MENA General Counsel- in special projects and effectively communicate the risks and legal issues involved in any decision to management.

Strategy:

• Establish and leading the formulation and implementation of the Legal department strategy for the Territories to ensure the alignment with MENA Legal strategy.
• Providing a responsive service; delivering technical know-how in a way that has a transformative impact on the business; providing commercially astute advice; and contributing to developing the strategic direction of the business within the relative legal frameworks.

Policies & Procedures:

• Create and develop the Legal departmental policies in Territories and manage the development and implementation of, processes and procedures to ensure all relevant procedural/legislative requirements are fulfilled in accordance with the MENA legal policies

 Budget:

• Leads the development of the Territories legal budget, and monitors financial performance versus the budget to ensure alignment.
• Lead the preparation of the Territories Legal litigation financial provisions and maintain all potential risks are properly calculate and mitigate and to ensure alignment with the approved set budget.

Accountabilities:

• Managing the legal department in the Territories and providing them with all the needed legal services according to the international best practices, corporate governance, internal & external laws as well as rules and regulations.
• Establish, development and implementation of Legal policies, processes, and procedures in the Territories to ensure all relevant procedural/legislative requirements are fulfilled.
• Raise legal awareness on regulatory and legal matters to internal departments within Hikma and managing the compliance with the laws to safeguard Hikma’s rights and legal stance.
• Assists the MENA General Counsel in special projects and cases such as the legal process of acquiring other pharmaceutical companies.
• Interacts and communicates with external parties, encompassing legal advisors and ministries, to follow up on legal issues and cases and build a strong relationship with them.
• Develop, create, reviews and negotiates complex legal contracts for both internal and external parties while ensuring the inclusion of all relevant information and supporting documentation and proved recommendation.
• Work with business partners to ensure early detection and amicable and smart resolution of potential disputes before reaching to litigation.
• Managing all Hikma legal meetings and litigations in front of the governmental authorities.