Senior Legal Counsel Lead

Provide dedicated legal support to functional departments within a leading organization, entailing consultation, advice, contract review and negotiation in line with the organization's internal values, policies, procedures and applicable law.

• Independently draft and review contracts and engage with internal stakeholders, negotiate directly with counter parties in case of any contention/conflict to provide clarifications and to seek mutual agreement accordingly
• Provide legal assistance to relevant internal stakeholders after carefully understanding the business context surrounding the contract and its impact vis-à-vis the business needs
• Support to effectively offer a legal view on various matters, from within the organization and on industry related matters to be fully compliant with respective laws and policies
• Provide opinions and legal advice to personnel at all levels of the business on existing and new commercial arrangements
• Recognize when issues require specialist legal support and to obtain such support and advice to ensure maximum benefit for the company without incurring unnecessary costs
• Engage in training of relevant business personnel (both informal trainings and structured programmes) on legal developments, contract management as well as on policies/procedures owned by or supported by the Legal function
• Provide legal advice over all aspects pertaining to any new strategic initiatives and ventures including investments, new business lines etc
• Assist in streamlining processes and procedures pertaining to key risk areas such as AML, CTF, export controls & sanctions, data protection, anti-bribery and anti-corruption etc. for DFS projects
• Utilise legal expertise with regard to digital financial services that the Company is engaged in
• Manage overall day-to-day affairs of the contracts section of the legal department of the company in more digitized manner
• Consult and support HOD with HQ on policy review and trainings related to the company falling under the domain of legal including sanctions and export controls
• Be able to liaise with the governance team on Group governance matters related to contracts
• Formulate strategy to standardize the process of managing the flows of contracts between organization and its clients
• Able to work in cross functional teams in special projects/ merger and acquisitions and effectively manage legal deliverables

• LLB/LLM/Bar at Law Degree with at least 5-7 years working experience in an in-house legal team or law firm/chamber
• Knowledge of the legal framework especially company and telecom laws in Pakistan
• Knowledge of contract, corporate and intellectual property laws
• Legal research, negotiation and contract drafting and review
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, as well as experience in stakeholder management
• Coming up with legal solutions focused towards delivering real time business value
• Strong writing skills
• Strong analytical, critical thinking skills and ability to research
• Strong negotiation, communication and interpersonal skills, as well as experience in stakeholder management
• Decision making & problem solving
• Teamwork

As one of the leading employers in the country, this organization epitomizes the philosophy that each employee is passionately living a better every day inspired and enabled by visionary leadership, a unique professional culture, a flourishing lifestyle, and continuous learning and development.

Our core values include qualities essential for a positive organizational culture - truthfully guiding entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets, harnessing professional and interpersonal collaboration, and fostering across-the-board customer-obsession.