Legal Counsel, Middle East

5 months ago


مصر, Egypt KANTAR Full time

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Job Details

Why this job is important

Are you an accomplished legal professional with a passion for commercial law? Kantar, a global leader in data, insights, and analytics, is seeking a Legal Counsel to join our Middle East and wider MEA / APAC Commercial Legal Team. In this role, you’ll play a crucial part in ensuring Kantar’s legal compliance while supporting our business growth.

What you’ll be doing
- Proactive Legal Support: Be the go-to legal contact for internal business clients, advising on various commercial and contracting matters.
- Agreements and Negotiations: Draft and negotiate commercial agreements with international and regional clients and suppliers, ensuring favourable terms for Kantar.
- Risk Management: Analyse legal and commercial risks, solve day-to-day legal issues, and build strong relationships across the organisation.
- Process Improvement: Contribute to evolving the team processes, including know-how sharing and the development of legal templates.
- Business alignment: Spot sensitive legal and business concerns, aligning with Kantar’s principles, and drive organizational alignment on privacy, IP, AI and other legal matters.

The skills & experience needed as Legal Counsel
- LLB and/or degree in Law
- 5+ years of experience in commercial transactions (law firm or in-house)
- Experience in licensing and data privacy is a plus
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Commercial acumen and provide valuable legal guidance
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Problem solving mindset

Location

Cairo, Downtown MallEgypt

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.


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