Lead Lawyer - Smart Infrastructure India

**Lead Counsel/Head of Legal - Commercial Law |

Siemens India, Smart Infrastructure. Transform the Everyday for Everyone … with us!** Are you looking for a workplace where innovation drives everyday work? Siemens Smart Infrastructure India (SI India) is a leading provider of intelligent, sustainable, and future‑ready infrastructure solutions. With a strong presence across India and deep integration into Siemens’ global ecosystem of technology, engineering, and digitalization, we operate in a fast‑evolving market that demands strategic legal insight and commercial acumen. Our portfolio spans electrification, automation, and digital services that help customers enhance operational reliability, optimize energy efficiency, and build resilient infrastructure.

The Legal function plays a pivotal role is advancing the strategic priorities of SI India by enabling complex commercial transactions, supporting innovative projects, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding long‑term business interests. If you are ready to help shape the future of SI India by partnering closely with business leaders to drive growth and manage risk, then you have come to the right place!

Join our Legal team as Lead Lawyer/Head of Legal (m/f/d), SI India , preferably based at our Kalwa location in Navi Mumbai.

**Your new role —

challenging and future-oriented.** In this role, you will be a member of the Legal leadership team of Siemens India and the trusted Legal business partner for the SI India CEO and CFO. You will contribute directly to the success of the business by providing practical, strategic, and commercially attuned legal advice. You will report directly to the General Counsel, Siemens India.

Your key responsibilities:

• be fully responsible for advising the management of SI India on strategic, commercial, and regulatory matters.
• lead the SI India Legal team with particular focus on business-orientation, quality of legal support, employee growth and well-being.
• advance a sound governance approach to mitigate strategic risks stemming from new regulations or geo-political developments.
• support complex commercial projects, innovative business models, and software/service‑driven offerings.
• efficiently manage and provide strategic guidance on litigation, dispute resolution matters and investigations.

Your Qualifications — excellent and proven in practice.

You are a fully qualified lawyer with excellent academic credentials. An Indian legal background is a prerequisite.

You have:

• 12-15 years PQE (as a guide) in the relevant fields of work, acquired in a leading law firm and/or in-house department.
• ability to lead, motivate and inspire a team of legal counsels and contract managers, including with soft power outside of conventional reporting lines. Prior leadership experience is a plus.
• ability to adaptively and effectively communicate across management levels, geographies and cultures.
• profound legal expertise in business-critical legal topics.
• strong business acumen and customer focus while always maintaining highest ethical standards.
• strong analytical skills, results-oriented working mode and hands-on mentality.
• ambition to optimize and simplify in-house legal advice through artificial intelligence, standardization, and harmonization.