Legal Counsel

**HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?**

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

**Associate Legal Counsel - Amgen India**

**Live**

**What you will do**

In this vital role, you will be at the forefront of shaping our legal landscape of Amgen India by drafting, reviewing, and negotiating an array of agreements with precision and ensuring alignment with local laws and Amgen’s internal policies and industry standards. Your expertise will provide support to our cross-functional teams globally, offering strategic legal advice on digital innovation, real estate, procurement, and clinical trial support, while meticulously maintaining corporate governance. Reporting directly to the Head of Law, Amgen India, you will play an integral part in our mission to serve patients and achieve excellence together. This attorney will also coordinate with and receive support from a global Law Department of more than 150 attorneys worldwide.
- Draft, review, and support the negotiation of a broad range of commercial agreements, including service contracts, consultancy agreements, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), sponsorships, and market research contracts, ensuring alignment with both local law and internal policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Ensure full compliance with applicable laws, internal procedures, and industry codes.
- Provide proactive legal support to cross-functional teams, including Human Resources/Employment, Sourcing, Compliance, Finance, Medical and Technology, acting as a trusted business partner.
- Maintain and periodically update the contract templates repository, ensuring consistency with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Design and deliver periodic legal training sessions to internal stakeholders to promote legal awareness and operational compliance.
- Provide guidance on legal aspects of digital tools, innovation projects, and value-based healthcare programs.
- Support corporate governance and entity maintenance activities, including drafting shareholder and board resolutions, updating corporate records, and managing powers of attorney.
- Ensure compliance with local registration and reporting obligations.
- Advising key stakeholders on legal, regulatory and policy developments, as well as industry related government enforcement actions to ensure that legal support is adapted to a rapidly changing environment.
- Counseling on internal business reviews, financial forecasting and overall strategic business considerations
- Helping Amgen shape external environment to improve patient access to its vital medicines
- Coordinating legal support by contributing as a member of cross-functional team and interacting with business and law department colleagues globally on various matters

**Win**

**What we expect of you**

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The Counsel we seek is highly motivated, solutions-oriented and collaborative, with these qualifications.

**Basic Qualifications**:

- A degree in law from a reputable university in India and admission to practice Law in India and at least five-six (5-6) years of experience practicing law, and demonstrated ability to handle and advise on a wide range of legal matters, with a solid independent command of labor & employment laws, ABAC laws, and laws relevant to complex commercial arrangements and contracting on technology
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**Preferred Qualifications**:

- 5+ years of corporate and/or law firm experience, or in-house in a multinational corporation (or global capabilities center), or a combination of both.
- Experience in a life sciences/health care experience preferred.
- Strong qualifications in transactional work in any industry, including structuring, advising and counseling on complex transactions and drafting, negotiating and interpreting complex contracts
- Experience counseling clients on complex legal and regulatory considerations, including employment
- Proven superior legal skills, including: excellent oral and written communication, legal analysis, drafting and negotiation skills and sound judgment
- Experience with digital transformation initiatives, including generative AI, in the healthcare industry preferred
- Ability to lead and influence others
- Strong client service, business counseling and problem-solving focus
- Ability to manage multi-dimensional projects in a fast-paced environment
- Superior academic achievement

**Thrive**

**What you can expect of us**

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, so we work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and wel