Legal Manager - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Etihad Rail Operating Companies
Description
Position Overview
Support all business functions in contractual drafting, analysis and support for their business activities.
Roles and Responsibility
• Drafting contracts (service contracts, supply contracts, framework contracts, goods contracts, client contracts) and providing legal support to all areas of the business.
• Ability to analyse numerous operations contracts and explain consequences under each contract in any given scenario
• Draft Memorandums of Understanding, new business contracts, customer delivery contracts with new partners/clients.
• Assistance with supporting drafting of all operational policies and procedures to reflect and ensure compliance with revised contractual structure of the company.
• Review and provide amendments to ensure compliance with reporting obligations for clients, asset owners and shareholders.
• Interpret and ensure compliance with joint venture arrangements that govern the company, including Memorandum of Association and applicable laws.
• Ensure updates to and creation of new templates of the contracts used for the procurement of the goods and services and client contracts.
• Strong drafting ability
• Review and clear deviations submitted by the contractors at the tender stage of the procurement process.
• Participating at all negotiation meetings with Clients, partners and contractors.
• Follow up on the contractual claims with suppliers and service providers.
• Strong legal understanding of transition between construction build phase, through testing and commissioning through to start up operations
• Maintain physical filing of contracts.
• Provide legal support to operations as directed by the head of the department or executive management.
• Perform any other task or participate to any other business as may be assigned.
• Prepare, assist and coordinate with preparation of Board packs and submissions.
Desirable qualifications, skills and experience
Academic Qualifications:
• Master or Bachelor in Law.
Professional Qualifications:
• A qualified and practicing commercial lawyer with good all round commercial knowledge, projects experience and an enthusiastic desire to work in a multi-cultural environment in the UAE.
Experience:
• Minimum 5 years' experience in a projects legal department of an international company and/or law firm in dealing with drafting contracts.
• Must be a qualified lawyer.
• Fluent in English (excellent writing, drafting and speaking skills), fluency in Arabic is a plus.
Other Skills:
• Flexible and ability to manage stress and meet tight deadlines.
• Accurate, attention to details and conscientious.
• Ability to follow instructions and work closely with hierarchy.
• Ability to identify and highlight risk and financial exposure for the company.
• Ability to explain complicated contractual structures in layman's terms.