MAIN OBJECTIVE OF ROLETo oversee the finance and commercial portfolio within the Legal Affairs Department, including negotiation with aircraft and engine manufacturers, managing the negotiation and documentation of aircraft leasing, financing conventional and Islamic loans and commercially similar arrangements and as well as overseeing a wide variety of commercial contracts and working across business units to ensure appropriate implementation including in particular those with an IT component such as SaaS arrangements, various service and maintenance related agreements that support the flydubai fleet and network.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Offers advice on matters concerning aircraft leasing (dry and wet leasing) and financing arrangements.
• Develops and ensures the implementation of legal strategy to minimize risk in financial and commercial contracts, including staying abreast of recent market developments and their potential implication to the company.
• Negotiates high value contracts with aircraft and engine manufacturers as well as other OEMs, including purchase agreements, support, and maintenance arrangements.
• Negotiates and documents a diverse range of contracts, including, SaaS agreements, maintenance agreements, specialized (BFE) contracts to support the implementation of aircraft into the fleet, construction arrangements and a wide variety of general goods and services agreements.
• Offers advice to the Procurement and Finance departments on policies and risks as well as mitigation strategies.
• Leads cross functional working groups in particular with respect to contracts that have an IT focus, or specialized (BFE) contracts required in connection with aircraft entry into service.
• Understands companys strategy and associated commercial requirements, including specialized areas, facilitating effective negotiation of commercial contracts and resolution of disputes within the assigned portfolio, and the Finance and Commercial Portfolio.
• Supervises and develops a team of junior and mid-level legal professionals supporting the finance and commercial portfolio, providing opportunities and training for their ongoing professional development.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREDMinimum Education Level\xc2\xb7 Associate Degree (2 years)Education Specific Requirement (if applicable)\xc2\xb7 Degree in Law / Legal Studies\xc2\xb7 Admitted to practice (preferably in a common law jurisdiction)Certifications (if applicable)\xc2\xb7 Law degree and Qualification certificate.\xc2\xb7 Practicing certificate or equivalentLicenses (if applicable)\xc2\xb7 NALanguages\xc2\xb7 Fluent in EnglishEXPERIENCE REQUIREDYears with Qualifications\xc2\xb7 10Years without Qualifications (if applicable)\xc2\xb7 NAProfessional Experience\xc2\xb7 Must have substantial private practice experience (with a reputable law firm)\xc2\xb7 Experience in aviation (including aviation finance) is strongly preferred.\xc2\xb7 Previous in-house legal experience beneficial but not essential.\xc2\xb7 Experience in the GCC beneficial but not essential.\xc2\xb7 Must have prior experience in commercial contract drafting.Systems Knowledge (if applicable)\xc2\xb7 Excellent PC skills and proficient in use of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)\xc2\xb7 Excellent English language drafting skillsCORE COMPETENCIES\xc2\xb7 Customer Focus\xc2\xb7 Teamwork\xc2\xb7 Effective Communication\xc2\xb7 Personal Accountability & Commitment to achieve\xc2\xb7 Resilience and Flexibility (Can do attitude)LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES\xc2\xb7 Inspiring & Developing Others\xc2\xb7 Decision Making\xc2\xb7 Strategic Thinking\xc2\xb7 Business AcumenISR REQUIREMENTSReads and complies with the ISR policies of the Company and diligently reports any weakness or incidents to the respective Line Manager or the Information Security team. Completes all required ISR awareness sessions and follows associated guidelines in the day-to-day business operations.Warning on Recruitment Fraudflydubai is aware of a number of e-mails, letters and SMS or Whatsapp messages in circulation recently, claiming to be offers of employment from flydubai.These offers often look legitimate and may include job descriptions, salary, and benefit details.The offers then direct recipients to provide bank account details.Although these offers may appear genuine, they are fraudulent and should be deleted immediately and not responded to. flydubai does not send emails, letters or other messages requesting your bank account details in order to process documents. flydubai will also neverrefer you to a third party to process applications or visas. Official communications from flydubaiwill only come from an email address ending in @flydubai.com and job opportunities withflydubai are advertised on flydubai's websites.If you receive any e-mail, letter or other message which you have not requested or are expecting and it purports to be from flydubai, please contact us at and include the subject line Recruitment Fraud to confirm the authenticity of the message.

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