Senior Legal Counsel Position

3 days ago


Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Allianz Popular SL. Full time
Job Description

We are seeking a highly qualified Senior Legal Counsel to support our growing Health businesses in the Middle East & Africa (MEA) Region and beyond.

The ideal candidate will provide legal guidance, advice, and recommendations for action to senior management and different functions within the company regarding legal risks, mainly regarding local and international regulations in the healthcare industry in MEA.

  • Act as the subject matter expert on insurance supervisory, licensing, health insurance laws, outsourcing in MEA and provide ongoing expert advice and guidance to the Global Head of Legal for International Health, senior management, and Legal team;
  • Participate in relevant Committees;
  • Provide advice on legal rules and principles; regulatory developments; regulator policy statements; and legal trends and developments in MEA;
  • Proactively provide legal input on relevant business issues;
  • Proactively maintain awareness and provide input on regulatory/compliance developments, risks, and potential impacts on business;
  • Provide training to the business on legal issues;
  • Implement Allianz Group standards and Allianz Partners standards as required;
  • Act as Lead legal advisor for new market entries, global new business projects, and regulatory projects in MEA;
  • Represent Legal at cross-company projects;
  • Manage applications for new and renewals of licenses in MEA region;
  • Develop and maintain a framework and standards to ensure effective legal support on MEA governance;
  • Manage relationships with international external counsel on complex legal briefs and take responsibility for external legal budget;
  • Responsible for ensuring quality management of contract templates for projects in MEA (NDAs, MOUs, JV, M&A, employment, Service contracts and other agreements with external parties);
  • Review policy documents in line with local regulations in MEA (e.g. document retention, Legal documents storage, Antitrust, Dawn Raids); Health product development advice (legal and regulatory) regulations in MEA;
  • Conduct research & provide advice on recently enacted laws & regulations and sub-regulatory guidance, insurance supervisory, licensing, health insurance laws, outsourcing and data protection rules in the jurisdictions in which Allianz Partners have presence or operates in MEA, as well as determining business impacts and working with the business to devise and implement solutions;
  • In liaison with the General Counsel, represent the department as required and lead strategic negotiations with international partners and companies in MEA to ensure optimum legal structure and to negotiate and finalize agreements while ensuring Allianz/Nextcare is contractually protected in its arrangements;
  • Cooperate with the members of the legal department;
  • Proactively create and maintain awareness of employees for compliance with relevant laws and regulations;
  • Coordinate litigation with external counsels as needed;

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