Patent Specialist

Role:

• Collaborate with technical and scientific teams to gather data and create technical descriptions of products or technologies, designs, and specifications for new patent applications, and prepare documents for patent filing.
• Support inventors in identifying and defining inventions, and lead the preparation of patent application documents.
• Assist scientists and patent counsels in the technical analysis of 3rd party prior art related to patentability, Freedom to Operate analysis, or patents oppositions.
• Collect data and prepare technical descriptions of technologies to be analyzed for third-party IP risk assessments or for patent oppositions.
• Operate competitor patent monitoring, analyze, and present results to internal technology stakeholders, identify patents/patent applications to watch and/or oppose.
• Carry out projects such as patent and prior art searches and analyses upon request from technical, marketing, or business teams.
• Aim to take on team responsibility and lead them to achieve goals.

Profile:

• PhD in Chemistry or Physical Chemistry.
• Minimum 5-10 years' experience in industry, preferably in R&D.
• Experience with intellectual property (IP) tasks and patents search tools.
• Experience in people management.
• Broad technical knowledge, curiosity, and openness to new ideas and technologies.
• Strong analytical skills and high attention to details.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills to interact with inventors and patent counsels, strong team spirit.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills with ability to prioritize multiple tasks and projects with tight deadlines, ability to work with multiple demanding internal customers.
• Demonstrated leadership and capacity to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information.
• Proficient with usual IT tools such as MS Office.
• Fluent in French and English; excellent reading and understanding of German.

Why SICPA:

• Our success comes from our highly skilled and talented employees.
• Respectful entrepreneurship and long-term vision are key for success.
• Our people contribute to a more secure world.
• Diversity at all levels of an organization is a strength.

We offer an exciting and challenging role with great potential for personal development within a unique organization in a fascinating and fast-growing industry. Your file will be handled with utmost confidentiality and discretion.