Associate Legal Specialist - Qatari National

About the role

In this role as an Associate Legal Specialist, you would review plan, organise, and accomplish contracting functions, liaising closely with the Legal Specialists in reviewing, analysing, negotiating, and drafting contracts for Qatar Airways.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Support contract evaluation, including basic cost or price analysis, select contract source, and assemble contracts.
• Coordinate with other functional activities to accomplish advance planning and ensure adequacy and correctness of contracting approach, lead-time, and specification. Confer with internal/external stakeholders to explain contract requirements, and contractual interpretations.
• Participate in formulating contracting policies and procedures. Analyse policies and procedures necessary to improve contracting process, and customer support. Implement policies based on sound business practices and highest standards of ethical conduct and fiscal responsibility. Work in automated systems essential to enhancing contracting efficiency.
• Ensure contracting system is responsive to the needs and requirements and ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. Implement internal systems and processes, manual and automated, required to accomplish and monitor the end results.
• Improve quality of contracts to the benefit of airline and group by understanding and modifying certain contractual language and assuring an “all bases covered” work product.
• Identify and mitigate areas of concern affecting the contracts.
• Responsible for all documentation of contract administration/management process.
• Perform other department duties related to his/her position as directed by the Head of the Department.

Be part of an extraordinary story

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.

Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

Together, everything is possible.

About you

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Law 
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• PC literate with knowledge of Word/PowerPoint/Excel
• Excellent organizational and planning skills
• Strong interpersonal and team working skills

Preferred

• Work experience in a law firm or in-house legal environment
• Good knowledge in contract and commercial negotiation relating to service and product agreements
• Strong legal drafting skills

About Qatar Airways Group

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

So whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.