1h 51m ago
Legal Counsel
🏢On-site
|OmanLegal Counsel
Snoonu | Food delivery and e-commerce super app
1h 51m agoOn-site
Full Time
Lead
Oman
🚀 Welcome to Your Next Adventure!
The Legal Counsel is responsible for leading Snoonu's Legal function by providing strategic legal guidance, enabling business growth, and ensuring effective legal risk management across the organization. Reporting to the Managing Director, the role serves as the principal legal advisor to executive leadership, partnering closely with the business leaders to support strategic decision-making while protecting the company's legal and commercial interests.
The role oversees all legal matters including commercial contracting, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, legal support for regional expansion, litigation management, and legal operations. The Legal Counsel is responsible for establishing scalable legal frameworks, strengthening governance, and ensuring Snoonu operates in compliance with applicable laws while supporting the company's continued regional growth.
🛠 What You’ll Get Your Hands On:
Legal Strategy & Business Partnership
- Serve as the company's principal legal advisor, providing commercially pragmatic legal guidance to executive leadership and business stakeholders.
- Develop and execute Snoonu's legal strategy in alignment with the company's business objectives, expansion plans, and governance requirements.
- Partner proactively with business functions to enable growth while effectively managing legal and regulatory risk.
- Support strategic initiatives, investments, partnerships, corporate transactions, and new business models through practical legal advice.
- Prepare and coordinate Board agendas, resolutions, minutes, written decisions, legal briefing papers, approval memoranda, powers of attorney and supporting corporate documentation.
- Lead the drafting, review, negotiation, and governance of commercial agreements across all business functions and jurisdictions.
- Develop standardized contract templates, negotiation frameworks, approval processes, and contract governance practices.
- Provide legal support across all business verticals including Commercial, Operations, Product, Technology, Finance, Marketing, Retail Media, Expansion, and New Ventures.
- Advise stakeholders on complex commercial negotiations while balancing legal protection with business objectives.
- Continuously improve contract lifecycle management processes to enhance operational efficiency and reduce legal risk.
- Lead all legal matters relating to Snoonu's regional expansion, including company incorporation, licensing, corporate structuring, regulatory approvals, and market entry requirements.
- Coordinate legal activities across multiple jurisdictions while ensuring compliance with local laws and Group governance requirements.
- Partner with Group Jahez and external legal counsel on regional legal matters, strategic initiatives, and expansion projects.
- Support mergers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, and other corporate transactions as required.
- Lead the end-to-end legal workstream for entry into new markets, from legal feasibility and market-entry structuring through entity incorporation, licensing, regulatory approvals, operational readiness, contract localisation and ongoing legal compliance.
- Lead or support investments, venture-building initiatives, startup and portfolio-company arrangements, convertible instruments, shareholders’ agreements, joint ventures, funding rounds, exits and post-investment governance matters
- Maintain legal oversight of Snoonu’s subsidiaries, affiliates, and corporate entities, including constitutional documents, statutory registers, governance calendars, licences, renewals, authorised signatories, delegated authorities, corporate filings, and ongoing compliance obligations.
- Ensure appropriate coordination and alignment between Snoonu, its subsidiaries, and Jahez Group in relation to corporate governance, reporting, approvals, and Group legal requirements.
- Establish and oversee enterprise-wide legal compliance frameworks, governance policies, and regulatory controls.
- Develop, review, and maintain Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policies, consumer protection frameworks, and other corporate legal documentation.
- Monitor regulatory developments and advise leadership on legislative changes impacting the business.
- Advise executive leadership and the Board of Directors on corporate governance matters, shareholder obligations, and statutory compliance.
- Prepare and oversee Board resolutions, governance documentation, and corporate records.
- Partner with Technology, Information Security, Product, and relevant business owners on data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, data-processing arrangements, regulatory notifications, incident response, and the legal assessment of new technologies and data-driven products.
- Protect Snoonu’s intellectual property, technology, trademarks, brand, confidential information, and commercial reputation, including managing infringement, unauthorised use, disclosure, defamation, and misuse of company information.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate legal risks across business operations, strategic initiatives, and commercial activities.
- Develop legal frameworks that strengthen corporate governance while enabling business agility.
- Ensure appropriate legal protections are embedded across commercial agreements, products, and operational processes.
- Promote legal awareness and risk management practices across the organization.
- Partner with Technology, Information Security and relevant business owners on data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, data-processing arrangements, incident response and regulatory compliance programmes.
- Protect Snoonu’s intellectual property, brand, confidential information and commercial reputation, including addressing infringement, unauthorised disclosure, defamation and misuse of company information.
- Lead the company's litigation strategy and oversee disputes, claims, investigations, and legal proceedings.
- Manage external legal counsel and monitor litigation performance, budgets, and case outcomes.
- Develop dispute resolution strategies that protect Snoonu's commercial interests while minimizing legal and financial risk.
- Support dispute resolution through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation where appropriate.
- Provide legal leadership during material incidents, regulatory investigations, data or confidentiality breaches, public disputes, and reputational crises, including coordinating internal stakeholders, external counsel, communications strategy, evidence preservation, and engagement with relevant authorities.
- Lead and develop the Legal function by establishing efficient legal processes, governance frameworks, knowledge management practices, and legal technologies.
- Manage the Legal team's performance, capability development, and resource planning across all legal domains.
- Drive continuous improvement in legal service delivery, contract lifecycle management, and operational effectiveness.
- Build strong relationships with executive leadership, Group Jahez, Board members, regulators, government authorities, and external legal advisors.
- Foster a high-performing, collaborative, and business-oriented legal team that delivers practical, timely, and commercially focused legal support.
- Provide legal support in relation to organisational restructuring, senior employee matters, confidentiality, restrictive covenants, conflicts of interest, and sensitive workplace issues.
- Manage employment disputes and coordinate with external counsel and government authorities where required.
- Advise HR and executive management on employment contracts, policies, disciplinary matters, internal investigations, terminations, employee disputes, immigration and residency matters, and compliance with applicable labour laws.
- Develop and manage the Legal Department’s annual budget, external legal spend, panel of law firms and advisers, and legal technology requirements, ensuring cost-effective allocation of resources and appropriate oversight of external counsel performance.
- Act as the final internal legal reviewer within the company’s delegated authority framework and determine whether material legal risks require escalation to the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Board of Directors, or Jahez Group.
- Approve legal positions, contractual deviations, settlement recommendations, external counsel appointments, and legal risk-mitigation measures within the applicable delegation of authority and approved budget.
- Require additional legal protections, remedial action, or executive approval where a proposed transaction, product, practice, or market-entry initiative presents material legal, regulatory, financial, or reputational risk.
- Maintain professional independence in the provision of legal advice and have direct access to the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors on material legal and governance matters.
- Bachelor's degree in Law (LL.B. or equivalent) from an accredited institution.
- Master's degree in Law (LL.M.) or equivalent postgraduate qualification is preferred.
- Qualified lawyer admitted to practice in at least one jurisdiction.
- 10+ years of post-qualification legal experience, including significant in-house legal leadership experience.
- Demonstrated experience leading legal functions within technology, e-commerce, marketplace, logistics, or multinational organizations.
- Strong expertise in commercial law, corporate governance, commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, litigation management, and cross-border legal matters.
- Experience supporting executive leadership, Boards of Directors, and multinational corporate structures.
- Excellent commercial judgment, negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical, leadership, and decision-making capabilities.
Required Languages
🇬🇧 English