Senior Legal Counsel, Saudi Arabia & Bahrain, Riyadh Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future.<br/><br/>At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences. ABB’s Legal & Integrity team is a pro-active and strategic business partner, with a strong focus on quality, customers and the company’s best interest. We drive & execute the business strategy with a can –do attitude and build credibility and trust with our stakeholders as a true business enabler. As legal professionals we provide direction and solutions, with clear and simple communication and show responsibility and accountability for our actions, decisions and advice. Your responsibilities Provides end-to-end legal services to management, functions and Business Areas. Provides L&I related advice to ABB management and acts as an advisor to the business stakeholders. Reviews and negotiates contract, drafts commercial agreements and other contractual terms in collaboration with relevant business stakeholders and L&I team members, and oversees contract and risks management. Monitors legal affairs, including but not limited to litigations and activity reports and occupies a seat at the table on local strategic business matters. Ensures good corporate governance (including structuring, drafting, and negotiation) in their area of accountability within the country. Responsible for handling major legal tasks involving problems of recognized complexity and ambiguity in facts, using their legal judgment and experience, and independent reasoning. Accountable for local country fiduciary duties and GDPR. Supports anticipating future business and legal opportunities and challenges and develop appropriate strategies to address them. Identifies risks, external threats, and opportunities to the company, proactively and proposes appropriate strategies. Contributes to effectively managing the Annual Performance Plan (APP) and controls outside counsel expenditures. Manages and monitors the implementation and execution of the code of conduct across the organization and collaborates with the integrity & regulatory affairs team on integrity policies & processes, integrity investigations as necessary. Ensures all staff (under scope) understand ABB’s core values and group safety and integrity standards and act accordingly. Implements and ensures compliance with the ABB code of conduct, global and local standards, tools, policies, and processes in their assigned area. Ensures adherence to all internal and statutory regulations and policies pertaining to the teams in scope. Ensures integrity and compliance with ABB values and ethics in all activities across all teams in scope. Handling and ensuring corporate matters and RHQ corporate structure and operation are fully following local laws and regulations and Group Internal Guidelines. Establishes and maintains relationship with the key stakeholders of the respective/assigned unit and takes accountability for all legal matters in the unit. Promotes and enables collaboration across divisions, business areas, and teams to maximize results for ABB. Provides guidance to the teams and seeks knowledge for their own development and coaching/mentoring of the teams. Manages relationships with stakeholders in their own area of responsibility and ensures alignment. Builds effective, competent, and high-performing teams. Reviews organizational effectiveness and performs competence assessments and continuous skill upgrades. Your background Ideally, you'll hold a Law Degree from a reputable Law university, LLM and/or Master is a plus At least 8-10 years.of experience<br/><br/>Legal Advice, business strategy, contracts review, compliance, corporate laws, Shariyah Laws, negotiations, litigation, team key player, legal research and writing.<br/><br/>Recognized experience working in Multinationals companies or International law firms Experience working with companies in the same field of ABB. Job Skills - Process Improvement & Optimization;<br/><br/>Administration/Legal Advice; and Executional Excellence Fluent speaking and writing English and Arabic is a must. French language is a plus. More about us We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.
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