Senior Specialist Legal (Paralegal)

Team: Legal

Activity: Full-time

Role grade: Senior Specialist (5)

Direct reports: 0

Indirect reports: 0

Reporting to: Head of Legal

Role location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Job Purpose: As a Senior Specialist Legal (Paralegal), you will provide high-level legal support to the legal team, managing legal matters, coordinating legal projects, and ensuring the effective delivery of day-to-day legal operations. You will support the preparation, review, and management of legal documentation, coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, and contribute to the efficient functioning of the legal department. The role requires a highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented professional with the ability to manage competing priorities and handle confidential information with discretion.

Duties and Responsibilities

Project Management & Administrative Lead

• Act as lead project manager for the legal team, managing the central legal tracker

• Assign roles, tasks, and priorities across team projects and track progress to completion

• Follow up on project status, deadlines, and outstanding actions across the team

• Respond to and triage minor/ad hoc requests, keeping the team free to focus on higher-level tasks

• Keep the team and stakeholders up to date on project and task status

Meetings & Team Coordination

• Coordinate the legal team's weekly meeting - agendas, materials, minutes, and follow-up actions

• Follow up with functions across the business on outstanding legal requests and action items

• Help keep the legal team organized, on track, and across competing priorities

Document Management & Migration

• Lead the migration and ongoing management of legal files and records, including transition to Google Drive/Suite

• Maintain organized, accurate, and up-to-date physical and electronic legal records

• Track deadlines, renewals, and key legal milestones

External Counsel & Billing

• Manage relationships and projects with external law firms, including instructions, correspondence, and deadlines

• Handle SAP purchase requisition requests, billing and agreements with external firms, including invoice tracking, analysis and budget reporting

• Own the administration associated with external counsel engagements

• Coordinate with internal departments, government entities, and other external stakeholders as required

Legal Documentation & Contracts

• Draft, review, format, and organize legal documents, contracts, correspondence, and agreements

• Support the preparation and review of contracts, agreements, notices, and other legal documentation

• Maintain contract databases with proper filing and version control

• Manage DocuSign workflows - preparing, sending, tracking, and filing signed documents, ensuring that the Docusign pack includes all internal documents and authorizations required by internal policies and delegation of authority.

Legal Research & Support

• Conduct legal research on relevant laws, regulations, and case precedents

• Summaries findings and prepare reports and presentations to support legal decision-making

• Support document collection, due diligence, and information gathering

• Support lawyers with day-to-day legal and administrative activities

Compliance & Administration

• Support company compliance with applicable laws and internal policies

• Assist with preparation for audits, regulatory reviews, and legal filings

• Assist with corporate governance documentation and filings where applicable

Process Support & Improvement

• Adhere to all relevant organizational and departmental policies, processes, and standard operating procedures to ensure work is carried out consistently and to the required standard

• Contribute to the identification and implementation of change initiatives and continuous improvement projects

• Support the legal team in improving document management systems and workflows

• Assist with ad hoc legal and administrative tasks as needed

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in law, Legal Studies, or a related field

• +3 years of experience in a Legal Operations Specialist or legal support role (law firm or in-house experience preferred)

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong project and team management skills. Able to run a tracker, assign tasks, and keep a team on schedule

• Strong legal research and document management skills

• Familiarity with Google Drive/Suite and contract management systems or legal databases

• Experience liaising with or managing external legal counsel, including billing and agreements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

• High level of professionalism, confidentiality, and discretion

• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills

• Experience with SAP is a plus

• Experience in Saudi Arabia or GCC legal environments

• Experience supporting corporate or commercial legal teams

• Solid knowledge of regulatory compliance and governance processes

• Arabic and strong English language proficiency

Benefits

• Relocation support

• Transportation allowance

• Competitive compensation

• Housing allowance

• VIP medical insurance

• Opportunity to work on a new exciting project with a group of passionate professionals. You will get the freedom to excel and make a real impact

Diversity disclaimer

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