Manager – Legal | Emirati Talent – Majid Al Futtaim

This Legal Manager role, designated for Emirati Talent, sits within Majid Al Futtaim’s legal function, supporting one of the region’s major operators of malls, retail, leisure, and hospitality assets. Legal teams inside a business this diversified handle a genuinely wide range of matters – commercial contracts, property and leasing issues, regulatory compliance, and dispute support across the group’s various operating businesses.

In this role, expect to provide legal advice and support to internal business stakeholders, review and negotiate commercial agreements, help manage legal risk across the group’s operations, and work closely with other legal, compliance, and business teams to make sure decisions across the group are made with sound legal grounding. Because Majid Al Futtaim operates across malls, retail (including Carrefour), entertainment, and hospitality, this role offers exposure to a genuinely broad range of legal work rather than a single narrow specialism.

As an Emirati Talent-designated role, it also reflects the group’s investment in developing UAE National legal professionals within a senior commercial legal function, with real matters and real responsibility attached.

This suits a UAE National legal professional who wants broad commercial legal experience inside a major regional group, with genuine career development support behind it.

A diversified business operating malls, retail, entertainment, and hospitality assets faces legal risk across a genuinely wide range of fronts - lease disputes, supplier contracts, regulatory changes, commercial negotiations - and this role is part of the function that catches and manages that risk before it becomes a costly problem. Good legal support also speeds up the business rather than slowing it down: a legal manager who gives clear, timely, practical advice lets commercial teams move on deals and decisions with confidence instead of stalling in uncertainty. Because Majid Al Futtaim's assets are highly visible and public-facing - major malls, well-known retail brands, entertainment venues - legal and reputational risk are closely linked, which makes sound legal management directly tied to protecting the group's public standing as well as its commercial interests. This role is also part of the group's broader investment in building senior Emirati talent across its functions, which matters to the business's long-term UAE National leadership pipeline.

Few in-house legal roles offer this much breadth inside one group - working across malls, retail, entertainment, and hospitality legal matters builds a genuinely diverse commercial law skillset that is hard to replicate in a narrower in-house role or even some private practice settings. Majid Al Futtaim's scale and the Emirati Talent designation together mean real investment in this person's development, likely including structured mentorship, exposure to senior legal and business leadership, and visibility for future promotion within the legal function or into broader commercial leadership roles. Building strong in-house commercial legal experience at a well-regarded regional group like this is also a strong credential for any future move, whether that's deeper legal specialization, a General Counsel track, or a pivot into commercial or strategy leadership roles that value legal fluency. For a UAE National legal professional serious about a long-term senior legal career, this role offers both genuine substance and institutional backing. It is also the kind of experience that reads clearly on a resume, since it reflects real ownership of a defined set of outcomes rather than a vague list of responsibilities. For someone deliberate about their next few career moves, that combination of substance and clarity is worth more than a flashier title with less to actually show for it.

• UAE National status, in line with this role’s Emiratisation designation
• Law degree, with relevant professional qualification or bar admission as applicable
• Experience in commercial, corporate, or property law, ideally within a large or diversified organization
• Strong contract drafting, review, and negotiation skills
• Ability to advise business stakeholders clearly on legal risk and practical next steps
• Comfort working across multiple business lines and legal specialisms simultaneously
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Arabic