Managing Director (In-house Patent Services)

<div class="field f-n-body f-t-text-with-summary"><h2>Job description</h2> <ul> <li>Leading and managing the patent department as an autonomous service organization</li> <li>Defining and implementing the department’s strategic vision aligned with Group innovation objectives</li> <li>Managing the department’s budget, ensuring financial sustainability and cost-efficiency in a self-financed model</li> <li>Developing internal costing structures, billing practices and performance indicators</li> <li>Optimizing resource allocation and workload planning across patent attorneys and support staff</li> <li>Driving continuous improvement of processes, tools and service quality</li> <li>Building strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, promoting the value of intellectual property services within the Group</li> <li>Instructing, monitoring and benchmarking external providers and competitors to ensure competitive positioning</li> <li>Mentoring, developing and recruiting team members to ensure long-term expertise and performance</li> <li>Ensuring compliance with legal, ethical and professional standards</li> <li>Providing intellectual property services for patents to all companies of the Group</li> <li>Protecting the innovations made in the various companies of the Group</li> <li>Drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications in various countries throughout the world</li> <li>Oppositions, infringing risk and validity assessments</li> <li>Licence agreements and patent enforcement</li> <li>Reporting to the Extend Management Board member</li> </ul> </div>