Specialist - Contracts

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and finalize contracts, MoUs, heads of terms, NDAs, and other procurement-related commercial agreements.
• Apply reasoned risk allocation and protect business commercial, legal, and reputational interests.
• Align documents with company templates, policies, governance standards, regulatory requirements, and legal risk management practices.
• Review stakeholder drafts and revise for clarity, consistency, and compliance.
• Maintain knowledge of UAE contracting practices, relevant ADGM and onshore frameworks, and changes to UAE laws.
• Coordinate with Legal and Compliance on complex or escalated matters; present legal, risk, and contracting topics to the business.
• Maintain a central executed-contract repository, flag expiry and renewal dates, assist with disputes, report review status and risks, and share signed documents.

Education and experience

• A bachelor’s degree in law, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred.
• One to three years of contract drafting, review, and governance experience, preferably in procurement or shared services; candidates with more post-qualification experience are not excluded.
• In-house and UAE or wider GCC work experience are preferred; healthcare experience is advantageous. Some commercial contract negotiation experience is preferred.

Knowledge and skills

• Fluent spoken and written English is required; high working proficiency in spoken and written Arabic is desirable but not essential.
• Professional ethics, integrity, sound judgment, analytical ability, communication, presentation, collaboration, organization, and goal orientation.
• Ability and willingness to quickly upskill on UAE laws, including ADGM laws; awareness of commercial contracts and legal-document execution.
• High proficiency with MS Office, including PowerPoint; ability to work in a fast-paced, multicultural, multi-stakeholder corporate environment.