Legal Manager Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Why this business?
A well-established, privately owned Saudi business, forming part of a highly respected, diversified business group. With a strong reputation built over decades, the company combines the stability and long-term outlook of a family-owned business with continued investment in growth, capability, and its people.
Operating across multiple sectors, the business has built its reputation on delivering high-value, technically driven services, differentiating itself through expertise, quality, and operational excellence rather than competing solely on price. Significant investment in employee development and progression creates genuine opportunities to build a long-term career within a stable and growing organisation.
Why this role?
Reporting to the MD, this is a pivotal legal position responsible for overseeing all legal, compliance, governance, contractual, and dispute-related matters across the organisation.
Key responsibilities include:Acting as the principal legal advisor to the business, providing strategic and operational legal guidance to senior management. Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and managing a broad range of commercial contracts, agreements, policies, and legal documentation. Leading all litigation, disputes, arbitration matters, and relationships with external legal counsel. Ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, corporate governance requirements, and internal policies. Identifying and mitigating legal and commercial risks while supporting business growth, operational decision-making, and cross-functional initiatives.
This role offers the opportunity to combine legal expertise with commercial influence, playing a key role in protecting and supporting the organisation's continued growth.
Why you?
You are a commercially minded legal professional combining technical legal expertise with practical business focused advice.
You are looking for an organisation that gives you stability and long-term growth and development opportunities and a key strategic seat at the leadership table.
You will likely bring:A Bachelor's Degree in Law and a minimum of 7 years' experience gained within private practice, in-house legal functions, or a combination of both. Experience across commercial contracts, procurement, governance, compliance, risk management, and regulatory matters. Proven capability managing litigation, disputes, arbitration processes, and external legal advisors. Excellent legal drafting, negotiation, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to advise senior leadership. Experience within operational environments such as construction, facilities management, engineering, infrastructure, or similarly operational environments.
This is a fast moving organisation, setting the industry pace and standard.
Apply now, interview this week.