Senior Counsel Legal

About the Role

ArcelorMittal Tubular Products Al-Jubail is seeking a Senior Counsel Legal to join their team in Dhahran, Eastern region. This full-time role involves providing strategic and operational legal advice across various corporate, commercial, governance, compliance, regulatory, and contractual matters. The Senior Counsel will be instrumental in safeguarding the company's legal interests through proactive risk management and effective legal solutions, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide independent legal advice and guidance to management and business functions on legal, commercial, governance, regulatory, and operational matters.
• Assess legal implications of strategic initiatives, business transactions, projects, and corporate decisions.
• Offer practical, business-oriented legal solutions while ensuring adequate legal risk mitigation.
• Draft, review, revise, negotiate, and execute complex legal agreements and commercial transactions, including M&A.
• Advise on contractual strategies and risk allocation mechanisms to protect the Company's legal and commercial interests.
• Resolve contractual disputes and issues related to contractual interpretation.
• Support corporate governance activities and ensure legal and regulatory compliance in governance matters.
• Maintain the integrity of corporate records and governance documentation.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting the organization and recommend appropriate actions.
• Lead legal compliance reviews and assessments, and support the development of compliance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Identify, assess, and manage legal risks associated with business operations, contracts, and transactions.
• Support enterprise risk management activities related to legal and regulatory exposures.
• Manage legal disputes, claims, investigations, and litigation matters.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders, regulators, and external parties.
• Promote legal awareness and best practices across the organization.
• Contribute to the development of legal policies, frameworks, standards, and procedures.
• Support the head of department with training and development initiatives for junior legal staff.

Qualifications and Education

• Bachelor’s degree in law or an equivalent legal qualification, preferably from a common law jurisdiction.
• A Master’s degree in law or a relevant postgraduate legal qualification is preferred.
• International legal education is considered an advantage.

Experience and Professional Certification

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant legal common law experience, with a total experience range of 5-10 years.
• Experience should ideally be in corporate or commercial law, gained both in-house and through practice at an internationally recognized law firm.
• Demonstrated experience in corporate, commercial, governance, compliance, regulatory, and contractual matters.
• Full familiarity with common law contractual principles and good knowledge of corporate governance frameworks and practices.
• Ideally admitted to a bar in a common law jurisdiction, such as the New York Bar or the Bar of England and Wales.