Legal Manager Middle East
Role Overview
Provide legal guidance and business-oriented support across JTI Middle East Cluster markets.
Support compliance with local laws, corporate policies, and international regulations while enabling business growth.
Partner with business stakeholders on commercial initiatives, contracts, regulatory matters, and legal risk mitigation.
Key Skills for This Role
Full Job Posting
Role overview
Provide legal guidance and business-oriented support across JTI Middle East Cluster markets.
Support compliance with local laws, corporate policies, and international regulations while enabling business growth.
Partner with business stakeholders on commercial initiatives, contracts, regulatory matters, and legal risk mitigation.
Key responsibilities
- Advise internal stakeholders across functions and Middle East Cluster markets.
- Monitor local legislation and regulatory developments and assess their business implications.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements and legal documents.
- Partner with the Legal Director on contractual, sales, distribution, and promotional matters.
- Support Marketing, Sales, Finance, and other functions on legal matters concerning products and business activities.
- Deliver legal compliance and policy training to stakeholders.
- Coordinate external counsel and manage legal matters related to regulatory and business projects.
- Oversee contract management, legal reporting, and legal governance initiatives.
- Lead or contribute to strategic legal projects and other management-assigned initiatives.
Requirements
- Law degree from an accredited law school.
- At least 5 years of relevant legal experience in a law firm and/or multinational corporation.
- Expertise in international business transactions, contracts, trade, distribution, and competition/antitrust law.
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required; Arabic is an asset.
- Strong negotiation, communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to operate in a multicultural, complex business environment; strong analytical, research, problem-solving, and business partnering capabilities.
- Integrity, ownership, and sound professional judgment.
Advantageous experience
- Exposure to regulatory, finance, and international law matters is an advantage.
Recruitment process
- If selected, candidates can expect a phone screening, assessment tests, interviews, and an offer process; the stages may vary by role type.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at JTI - Japan Tobacco International
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
JTI is seeking a Consumer Journey Manager to build and lead journey strategy across Global Travel Retail touchpoints before, during and after travel. The role requires relevant consumer journey or customer experience exp
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
JTI is seeking a Consumer Journey Manager to build and lead journey strategy across Global Travel Retail touchpoints before, during, and after travel. The role requires relevant consumer journey or customer experience ex
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
JTI is seeking a Consumer Journey Manager to establish and lead journey strategy across Global Travel Retail touchpoints. The role requires a university degree, 7+ years of experience, consumer journey or customer experi
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
JTI is seeking a Consumer Journey Manager to build and lead journey management across Global Travel Retail touchpoints before, during, and after travel. The role requires at least seven years of experience, a university
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
JTI is seeking a Consumer Journey Manager to establish and lead consumer journey strategy and improvement across Global Travel Retail touchpoints. The role requires a university degree, 7+ years of experience, advanced E
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
JTI is seeking a Consumer Journey Manager to build and lead consumer journey management across Global Travel Retail touchpoints. The role requires a university degree, 7+ years of professional experience, consumer journe
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
JTI recherche un Consumer Journey Manager pour développer et optimiser les parcours consommateurs dans le secteur Global Travel Retail, avant, pendant et après le voyage. La personne définira la stratégie, les indicateur
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
JTI seeks a Consumer Journey Manager to establish and lead journey strategy, governance, and optimization across Global Travel Retail touchpoints. Candidates need 7+ years of experience, a relevant university degree, cro
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE
Consumer Journey Manager GTR
, UAE