Head of Legal

Role Purpose

The Head of Legal serves as a key member of the executive leadership team, responsible for safeguarding the Group’s strategic interests through disciplined legal governance, proactive risk management, and uncompromising regulatory compliance in a highly sensitive and regulated operating environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Design and execute the Group-wide legal and compliance architecture aligned with long-term strategic objectives.
• Act as the primary legal authority for all defence, aerospace, and military technology activities of the Group.
• Ensure full adherence to export control regimes, sanctions frameworks, licensing requirements, and secrecy obligations.
• Lead legal support for strategic initiatives including M&A, joint ventures, restructurings, and technology partnerships.
• Establish and enforce corporate governance standards, internal controls, and compliance policies across the Group.
• Anticipate, assess, and mitigate legal, regulatory, and reputational risks at enterprise level.
• Manage complex disputes, investigations, and crisis situations with direct executive oversight.
• Represent the Group in high-level interactions with regulators, governmental authorities, and key institutional stakeholders.
• Build, lead, and continuously develop a high-performance in-house legal function.
• Oversee and coordinate external legal advisors across jurisdictions.

Executive Profile

• Advanced legal education with a strong academic foundation; postgraduate degrees are advantageous.
• At least 10 years of progressive legal experience, including senior leadership roles within complex organizations.
• Substantial exposure to Defence, Aerospace, Military Technology, or similarly regulated strategic industries.
• Demonstrated capability to operate effectively in environments with heightened regulatory, political, and security constraints.
• Proven track record in managing sensitive, high-stakes, and confidential legal matters at executive level.

Leadership & Decision-Making Style

• Strategic, disciplined, and analytically rigorous.
• Decisive and resilient under pressure.
• Commercially pragmatic with strong risk awareness.
• Comfortable taking firm and non-consensual decisions where required.
• Exhibits absolute discretion, loyalty, and personal accountability.

Value Proposition

• Executive-level influence within a strategically critical sector.
• Direct exposure to Board-level decision-making and governance processes.
• Opportunity to shape legal and compliance infrastructure at Group scale.
• Competitive executive compensation aligned with responsibility and impact.