Position: Legal Counsel
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

Luxoft uses technology to enable business transformation, enhance customer experiences, and boost operational efficiency through its strategy, consulting, and engineering services. Luxoft combines a unique blend of engineering excellence and deep industry expertise, specializing in automotive, financial services, travel and hospitality, healthcare, life sciences, media and telecommunications.
Responsibilities:
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated legal professional to join the Luxoft Legal Team. As Legal Counsel for the Middle East region, you will be responsible for all aspects of the legal function in the region, including providing both day-to-day and strategic legal support for labor and employment, tax, intellectual property, data protection, compliance, risk management, corporate secretarial and corporate governance matters to ensure the continued and sustainable growth of Luxoft in the region.
You will also have transactional drafting and negotiation responsibilities on deals and provide ongoing legal advice to senior executives and business team members.
This position is a good fit for someone looking for a challenging opportunity at a global, fast-moving, demanding and results-oriented company.
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Effectively bilingual and confident in both written and spoken Arabic and English.
• Excellent drafting and negotiating skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a high-pressure, dynamic and energetic environment.
• Ability to manage and prioritise workload to optimize business results.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision (but yet knows when to escalate to Management when necessary).
• Ability to learn quickly and combine knowledge with commercial acumen to support business growth in the Middle East.
• Ability to assess and advise on legal and commercial risks as part of providing solution driven advice.
Nice-to-Have Skills:
• A collaborative, solutions-oriented team player to become a trusted advisor to business teams and other corporate functions, including Finance, HR, Procurement, Real Estate/Facilities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact and work with people from different backgrounds, experience and locations at all levels.
• High ethical standards and strong sense of personal responsibility.
• "Can do" spirit and prepared to go the extra mile beyond the job scope, when required.
• Professional demeanor, positive and service-oriented attitude, able to handle conflicts in the right manner
Languages:
English: C1 Advanced