Job Description
Legal Counsel - Commercial Law | Siemens India, Mobility. Transform the Everyday for Everyone … with us!
Siemens Limited invites applications for the position of Legal Counsel to support its Mobility business in India (SMO India). SMO India is a leading provider of intelligent, sustainable rail and metro solutions, integrated within Siemens’ global technology and engineering ecosystem. Operating in a dynamic market, SMO India delivers signaling, electrification, rolling stock, and services for Indian Railways and metro systems, enhancing reliability, energy efficiency, and infrastructure resilience. The Legal function plays a critical role in supporting complex transactions, enabling innovation, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding long-term business interests, while partnering with business leadership to drive growth and manage risk
Join our Legal team as
Legal Counsel – Commercial Law
, based at our Kalwa location in Navi Mumbai.
Your new role — challenging and future-oriented.
- The role is part of the Siemens India Legal team, serving as a trusted legal business partner to the SMO India business.
- The candidate will contribute directly to business success by providing practical, strategic, and commercially focused legal advice.
- The position reports to the Lead Counsel, SMO India
Your Key Responsibilities
- Contracts \& Risk: Draft, negotiate, and manage commercial contracts with strong risk assessment and bid support.
- Project Advisory: Partner with contract manager \& business teams on contract execution, claims, and dispute mitigation.
- Compliance \& Governance: Advise on IP, antitrust, ESG, and broader regulatory matters.
- Disputes \& Collaboration: Handle disputes and litigation, manage external counsel, and drive stakeholder engagement and training
Qualifications \& Experience — Excellent And Proven In Practice
- The candidate should be a fully qualified lawyer with strong academic credentials, with an Indian legal background being essential.
- Approximately 4–7 years of post-qualification experience in relevant practice areas is expected, gained in a leading law firm and/or inhouse legal function
Skills \& Competencies
- Business-Focused Legal Expertise: Strong commercial judgment with deep legal expertise and a customer-centric, ethical mindset.
- Communication \& Impact: Effective stakeholder engagement across levels, geographies, and cultures, with strong analytical and results driven approach.
- Innovation \& Efficiency: Drives simplification and optimization of legal processes through AI, standardization, and a hands-on mindset #SL