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- From our C&L Team, Siemens are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Legal Counsel to support Industry Sector business.

Mission of Function:
To contribute to the business goals of Siemens and to protect the Company’s reputation for integrity by
- providing business oriented legal advice and counseling within assigned area
- taking responsibility
- bringing in specialists, where appropriate
Dimensions of Function:
- Responsibility for various legal matters with medium complexity
- Specific tasks assigned
- Financial impact low or medium (risk / opportunities)
Contacts (internal / external):
Internal:
- Other legal counsels, especially within same BU/BS and Division, Contract Management and Specialists
- Business Partner
- Compliance
- Other Corporate functions
External:
- Outside counsel
- Technical experts
- Government officials and regulatory authorities at working level
- Customers / suppliers / external business partners and their internal and external counsels
- Legal associations
- Arbitrators and judges

What are my responsibilities?
Ensuring effective legal risk management (operational focus)
Address legal risks and opportunities by
- proactively identifying them and bringing them together with a proposal for the solution to the attention of the business partner
- applying entrepreneurial and legal view point in order to mitigate risks and to realize opportunities which otherwise may have been missed.
Counseling Business Partner
Counseling Business Partner in assigned area by
- gathering the facts
- analyzing independently the legal framework
- bringing in specialists if necessary
- providing appropriate advise
- assuming responsibility in order to contribute to success of business.
Managing legal proceedings
Managing legal proceedings by
- gathering facts
- analyzing legal situation
- setting up strategy
- bringing in specialists if required
- liaising with external lawyers
- effectively managing costs in order to mitigate risks and exploit opportunities.
Managing claims
Managing claims both offensive and defensive by analyzing the contract and setting up the strategy in order to optimize business position.
Effective legal control of agreements and tenders
Effective legal control of agreements and tenders within assigned area by
- drafting, reviewing and negotiating all types of agreements
- taking responsibility for LoA legal risk assessment (if applicable)
in order to safe good opportunities and to identify and mitigate business risks.
Internal knowledge sharing and training
Share legal knowledge within Legal Department and by
providing up-to-date knowledge tool, training materials and sessions in order to maximize the benefit of best in class legal community and proactively influence Business Partner's behavior to identify business opportunities and minimize risks.
Reporting
File reports on material legal risks and proceedings by
- collecting, summarizing and updating data
- using IT-Tools and experience in risk evaluation
in order to meet the requirements of SEC, auditors, audit committee as well as capital market regulations and to inform on relevant data and risks.

Managing outside counsel
Manage outside counsel by
- selecting and retaining them
- clearly instructing and supervising them
- taking decisions in consultation with the external lawyers
- managing costs (e.g. create proper budget, agree on fixed fees, caps, rates, negotiate rebates, check invoices)
in order to achieve cost efficiency and high value and timely legal advice.

What do I need to qualify for this job?
Experiences:
1. Fully educated lawyer with excellent academic background. At least a bachelor of law degree, and preferably also a master or doctor of law degree from an accredited European or American law school. Bar admission is a must.
2. At least 5 years of professional working experience.
3. Strong collateral leadership; Be able to effectively work with team members and with cross-function partners.
4. Experience with European or American law firms or multinational companies is preferred.

Knowledge:
1.Legal Know-How:
- To understand legal concepts and issues in international contexts
- Ability to ask the right questions and make judgments in various areas of law
- To know the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the business
2.Product / Project specific Business Know-How:
- To know products / systems / solutions
3.Strategic Business Know How:
- To understand business models, strategies, financials and processes, including customer relationship management
4.Market Know-How:
- To know market and competition
- To understand strategy and financials of competition
5.Customer Know-How:
- To understand customers' and other contractual partners' needs, strategies and financials
6.Siemens Process Knowledge:
- To be able to apply the basic Siemens processes relevant for the respective e.g. LOA, P&I proposals, reporting tools, approval tools, compliance processes
7.Siemens Organization:
- To know the global organization
- To understand interfaces and who decision makers are
8.Negotiation Skills:
- To know how to negotiate according to situation (knowing, determining and applying negotiation strategies)
9.Financial Know-How & Taxes:
- To know relevant finance and tax principles
- To know financial figures
- To know accounting principles
10.Risk Identification and Management:
- To know how to identify, describe, quantify, evaluate risks and to participate in decision making by proposing optimal solutions and/or workable alternatives
- To know how to apply legal and business understanding to enable best decisions for Siemens
- To know how to manage the risks by applying Siemens processes
11.Analytical Skills:
- To know how to reduce complexity and to condense issues to the core
- To know how to review information to fully exploit opportunities and to enjoy the protection the law provides
12.Presentation Skills:
- To know how to properly address to the specific audiences
- To know how to engage the audience
- To know how to convey clear and convincing messages
13.Time Management:
- To know how to prioritize tasks internally and to communicate properly to Business Partner
- To know how to work efficiently
14.Language –English:
- Oral and written English for negotiations, communications and contract drafting
15.Intercultural Knowledge:
- To be aware of cultural traditions, differences, habits and sensitivities
- To know how to communicate properly taking into account cultural aspects
16.Integrity Standards:
- To know the standards and integrity risks
- To know how to identify integrity risks
- To be able to make the right business judgments
- To know how to apply appropriate remediation measures
17.Consulting Skills:
- To know how to extract essentials of business issues and support focus on these key factors
- To know how to coach, inform and facilitate the decision making process
- To know how to explain the pros & cons of the alternative courses available
18.Communication Skills:
- To know how to deliver sensitive messages
- To know how, what, when and to whom to communicate
- To know how to talk and listen to different management levels
- To know how to explain legal matters and concepts in a clear, understandable way
- To know how to convince and excite
19.Decision Making:
- To know how to weigh the pros and cons and give a clear recommendation in due time for the decision.
20.Regulatory Environment and Trends:
- To know the legal & regulatory framework applicable to the business (ISO, business licenses, export licenses, etc.)

Capabilities:
1.Strives to make things better
- Delivers as long as there as no major obstacles, adheres to rules and procedures
- Demonstrates interest in the ability of the team to deliver
- Makes suggestions for improvement and takes ad hoc actions
- Looks for opportunities to improve performance in own business area
- Sees how money is made in business generally and works to deliver it

2. Understands opportunities for change
- Understands strategic priorities developed by others
- Understands this year’s business challenges, employing short-term perspective
- Identifies and addresses potential issues/challenges quickly and develops action plans
- Demonstrates understanding of objectives for own business area and the strategy behind them
- Sees specific opportunities for immediate improvement within own business area

3. Learns about customer’s needs
- Gathers information to learn about the customer in an ad hoc manner
- Explores customer’s needs to better satisfy the customer
- Has good understanding about how internal or external customers use their products and services
- Listens to the customer’s feedback informally and acts on it

4. Accepts need for change
- Understands the need for change
- Changes existing plans to accommodate new information
- Explicitly states acceptance of change and progress
- Produces new ideas and approaches in relation to own role
- Explicitly express positive feelings about change

5. Actively engages with colleagues
- Prefers working in groups, including groups with a variety of perspectives and origins
- Asks questions, tests assumptions and openly discusses issues, keeps commitments
- Readily accepts and uses expertise and input from others, without regard to source or origin
- Actively listens and responds to the concerns and feelings of others even when not explicitly stated
- Adapts communications to the specific audience
- Builds informal networks internally and externally and views them as part of the value creation process

6. Understands culture differences
- Engages with others and tries to understand individual differences in their behavior, values and attitudes
- Appreciates the complexities and subtleties of individual differences and multicultural communication and interactions in the workplace
- Understands specific cultural differences between regions or organizations that influence local dynamics or opportunities
- Respects differing points of view as being as valid as own

7.Strong leadership with a “you see it, you own it” attitude; Ability to drive resolution of issues through engaging team members and cross-function partners.
8. Acts in line with the values
- Spontaneously takes actions that align with stated values
- Expresses thoughts and feelings candidly, truthfully, openly and directly (to employees, supervisor, or interviewer)
- Acts with humility despite own high capability ratings
- Accepts and provides honest critical feedback
- Does not abuse power or authority

What else do I need to know?
- We aim to deliver high quality legal advice for you as our business partners in the increasingly complex legal environment in China. We help you to comply with the law and internal rules. We help to avoid or minimize legal risks for your business and for Siemens. Simply put, our goal is to help you in achieving your business objectives in a legally compliant way.
- We seek to establish, maintain and develop a trustful relationship with you as our business partners through our focus on state-of-the-art legal skills and a profound understanding of your business needs. We are committed to provide solution-oriented legal advice and to help you minimize exposure to avoidable legal risks.
- We provide a full range of transactional legal advice for the Sectors, Divisions, Business Units and Corporate Departments of SLC as well as its affiliates in China. Our Legal Team is based in Beijing and Shanghai, and is made up of 27 lawyers and supporting staff. Each lawyer acts as a primary contact for Certain Business Partners.
- Being part of one Global Legal Organization within Siemens, we also work closely with our colleagues from Legal & Compliance in other jurisdictions. For more information regarding Siemens Legal, please click Links to Legal Germany.
- We aim to continuously improve our work on legal issues and Corporate Governance within Siemens. Your comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

Contact
- If you have further questions regarding this job offer, please be free to contact our Recruiting Consultant at telephone +86 (021) 38893713.

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