Legal Associate

About the role

The Legal Associate will support GBM's Legal Department by providing day‑to‑day legal and commercial advice to branches across the GCC. The role ensures compliance with IBM‑GBM agreements and Export Controls regulations while maintaining high standards of confidentiality.

Key responsibilities

• Provide legal and commercially relevant advice on contracts, RFPs and other transactional documents for GBM sales operations.
• Review, draft and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements, including services, business partner and IT solutions implementation agreements.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with Export Controls regulations and coordinate with the appointed Export Regulation Officer.
• Maintain the GBM contracts repository and educate branch stakeholders on contractual issues.
• Conduct ad‑hoc legal research (e.g., data law protection) and support document management initiatives.

Required profile

• Bachelor degree in Law.
• 3‑7 years of in‑house legal experience, preferably within a technology organization.
• Strong command of English and Arabic in a professional environment.
• High integrity, confidentiality and detail‑oriented work ethic.

Required skills

• Export Controls regulations
• Commercial agreements
• Data law protection
• IT solutions implementation agreements