Intellectual Property Manager / Junior Manager Product R&D (m/f/d)

Job Description

Would you like to redesign your work and work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

Then we are the right company for you. We are looking forward to your application! **

Your Tasks**

• Promoting, managing and defending intellectual property within the Group aligned with WEPA’s strategy
• Technical understanding of projects in the field of R&D, sustainability and technology
• Continuous researching of registered or communicated patents and trademarks in the above mentioned areas for the purpose of “WEPA’s freedom to operate”
• Supporting and advising project managers and experts on opportunities for WEPA to generate patents and trademarks as well as using existing patents under licence fee
• Technical interface to internal and external lawyers for IP applications
• Actively managing the company’s intellectual property portfolio
• Special competitor IP surveillance incl. therefrom derivable development roadmap
• Continue to develop a group-wide IP strategy
• support processing/support implementation of Product R&D projects

Your Profile

• Personality: Analytical mindset, solution-oriented thinking, hands on mentality
• Working: Independent, team-oriented and structured work, fast understanding of complex technical subjects, collaborative leadership style, very good communication skills
• Experience and Know-how: Several years of professional experience in the areas of responsibility listed above or similar, especially in the field of intellectual property management
• Qualification: Completed engineering / technical studies, further training in the field of patents
• Languages: Strong skills in written and spoken German and English

Your Benefits

• Attractive remuneration: You will be paid in accordance with the collective agreement, which provides for an attractive basic salary as well as vacation and Christmas bonuses.
• Flexible and mobile working: We offer you flexible working (time) models to enable the right balance between mobile working and office presence.
• Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account: We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.
• WEPA Academy: With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.
• Sustainable personnel policy: A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.
• Health & Wellbeing: You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme OTHEB.

The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location. **

About Us**

The WEPA Group is a family business operating throughout Europe and offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that contribute to the well-being of millions of consumers all over Europe every day. With more than 4,000 employees, we produce hygiene paper products such as toilet paper, towel paper, handkerchiefs and napkins at 14 production sites in Europe.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years.

We Consistently Invest In The Qualification Of Our Employees, Point Out Individual Career And Development Opportunities And Promote Them. We Do This Because We Are Convinced Of One Thing **

Our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.**