Director - Corporate Legal

Director - Corporate Legal

Job details

Our business landscape

We’re an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region’s leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group’s strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:

• Value-Focused Portfolio: 
  Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea
  cable business and fintech.
• Strengthen the Core:
  Optimally using deployed capital and
  maintain an appropriate cost structure.
• Evolve the Core:
  Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing
  on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.
• People:
  Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.
• Excellence in Customer Experience:
  Creating superior customer experiences.
  
  

From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey.
We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work-
life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you’re looking
to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.

Job overview

The purpose of the role is to Manage and oversee all legal aspects of banking and finance activities of the Group safeguarding its position and ensuring compliance with any requirements.

Your impact on our goals

Specialization on Contracts:

• Provide strategic leadership on banking and finance transactions, acting as the principal legal advisor and leading engagement with Group attorneys, senior stakeholders, and external counsel.
• Define, oversee, and govern the due diligence strategy and execution, ensuring legal, regulatory, and risk considerations are addressed at a Group level.
• Lead and approve the drafting, negotiation, and execution of complex banking and finance agreements and other critical legal documents, including term sheets, memoranda of understanding, and security documentation.
• Partner with Group Finance, Tax, and senior management to optimize financial, tax, and transactional structures in alignment with corporate strategy and risk appetite.
• Provide executive-level legal advice and recommendations to the Group on all legal aspects of banking and finance transactions, including risk mitigation and compliance.
• Oversee and contribute legal expertise across broader corporate and commercial matters beyond banking and finance, as required, supporting the overall objectives of the Legal function.

Team dynamics

Internal              

• OG Finance 

External

• Banks, Financial Institutions, Legal Advisors, Tax Firms

Your profile

Experience      

• Should have 15 years of experience in mortgage banking and have significant experience with the mortgage industry as well as other consumer financial products and services.
• Should be specializing in Finance Law.
• Must have commercial finance experience, including experience in lending transaction, secured loans, and banking matters is required such:
• Bank Lending
• Property Finance
• Project Finance
• Acquisition Finance
• Assets Finances
• Derivatives
• Capital markets
• Islamic finance
• Strong academics and communication skills are also required

Qualifications

• University Degree in Law
• Business degree a plus
• Bar membership in a Gulf Region
• state, EU country, or US
• Fluency in English essential; fluency in Arabic a plus

Must-have skills

Technical

• Governance, Risk & Control - Advanced
• Legal Knowledge  - Advanced
• Technical Writing and Reporting - Expert
• Meeting Administration - Expert
• Project Management - Advanced
• Problem Solving - Expert

Behavioural

• Networking & Influencing Collaboratively - Advanced
• Delivering Results & Fostering Ownership - Advanced
• Building Customer Value - Advanced
• Leading Teams  - Advanced
• Driving Change  - Advanced
• Shaping Strategy - Advanced

Join a purpose-driven, forward-thinking team

At Ooredoo, you’re stepping into a place where your growth truly matters. We’re building a digital future that’s better for people and communities, and we believe that starts with empowering our own teams to learn, stretch, and shine.

Whatever your role, you’ll work on meaningful projects, grow your skills, and help create real value for our customers and the world around us.

Join us — and let your Ooredoo growth journey begin.