Senior Patent Attorney

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature. 

A Senior Patent Attorney with the global leader in the creation of Taste & Wellbeing and Fragrance & Beauty, and an important member of our Global Patents team - Your future position?

Are you a qualified European Patent Attorney with extensive experience in the field of biotechnology and would like to take a new turn in your career by joining a global and leading organisation? Then this might be the perfect opportunity for you!
 
As a ‘Senior Patent Attorney’ and an important member of an international team of intellectual property practitioners, you will be a trusted partner and advisor to our Science & Technology management teams and management teams in adjacent business functions. You will execute key corporate intellectual property objectives.
 
You will be based in our Zug office in Switzerland and report directly to the Group Head of Intellectual Property. The role offers excellent opportunities for personal and professional development. 
 
You will work for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. With its heritage stretching back over 250 years, Givaudan has a long history of innovating scents and tastes. Our passion is to collaborate with customers and partners to develop game-changing innovations in the food & beverage, fragrance and beauty industries. We have a culture that works to inspire, challenge and capture the heart and soul of consumers and customers. Our customers have local, regional, and international profiles, bringing diversity and a range of rich experiences to your daily job.
 
Sounds interesting? If you aim to go beyond, provide value and desire to build relationships with our stakeholders, this could well be the perfect opportunity for you! 
 
In this exciting role, you will be responsible for - 
 
• Provide legal advice on intellectual property matters. 
• Manage relationships with Science & Technology (S&T) managers and management in adjacent business functions to effectively manage their intellectual property (IP) portfolios.
• Mentor junior colleagues.
• IP portfolio management: Drafting, filing, prosecution, and maintenance of a portfolio of patents.
• Draft and negotiate IP-related aspects of agreements.
• Risk Management.
• Support the Group Head of Intellectual Property in leading negotiations to resolve third-party IP disputes and other contentious proceedings.
• Represent the IP department at S&T management committee meetings.

You? 
 
Are you someone who wants to grow your world? Who excels being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Are you a person who loves to learn and evolve? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then join us - and improve your world!
 
Your professional profile includes:
 
• Qualification as a European Patent Attorney or an equivalent national qualification. Preference for dual qualification - European Patent Attorney and registered attorney before a relevant national office such as US, UK, or DE offices.
• An advanced degree, at least a master's level and preferably a Ph.D., in a relevant scientific discipline - Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, etc.  
• 5+ years of post-qualification experience in a law firm or an industrial practice.
• A thorough knowledge of patent and intellectual property laws globally.
• Knowledge in drafting and negotiating the intellectual property elements of agreements with third parties.
• Knowledge of the fragrances, food and cosmetics industries is good to have but not mandatory.  
• Proficient in the English language.
• Comfortable working and collaborating with diverse teams and cultures. 
 
Your benefits in Zug -  
 
• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development.
• 40-hour working week.
• Additional paid days off. 
• Favourable pension fund contributions.
• Discounts at the company shop.
• Subsidised: REKA vouchers and SBB half-fare travel card.
• Worldwide private accident coverage and free choice of hospital.
• Worldwide private accident insurance.
• Additional family/education allowance.

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At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion or sexual identity. 
We also have a safe working environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.