Intellectual Assets Manager
- Who we are:
Calyxia is an emerging multinational company that has developed a disruptive technology in the fight against microplastics pollution. The result of more than 25 years academic research at Harvard University (USA) and ESPCI Paris PSL, Calyxia has launched the first biodegradable microcapsules with advanced performance, that leave no trace in the environment. With this proprietary technology, we transform the products of our daily lives to make them safer for our health and environment while improving their performance. If you want to be part of this transformation of our daily lives, join us!
- Purpose:
The IA Manager is accountable for the fit between Calyxia’s general strategy and operations, including R&D, and the company’s IP strategy. She/he identifies and protects the company’s intellectual assets and proposes adaptation of the IP strategy to the legal and business environment evolutions, namely through continuous follow-up of competition, potential suppliers and clients. She/he acts as the point of reference for all Calyxia’s employees concerned by his activity, and coaches/trains them as needed, and is a key player in all Committees involving IP.
- Responsibilities include:
- Proposing IP strategy, including licensing in/out, and trade secrets/patenting policies, and provides regular updates following competitive analysis, market and technology inputs evolutions
- Managing and executing competitive intelligence for the whole value chain, from existing and potentially new raw materials to customer applications
- Managing and executing IP and regulation law evolution analyses, and providing upper management with guidance concerning implications for the Company of actual and forecasted evolutions
- Providing guidance to senior management on licensing and business transactions involving intellectual property
- Executing IP Strategy; namely
- Identification of patentable inventions concerning Calyxia’s technologies and processes
- Identification of know-how and means of detecting, qualifying, valuing, and protecting trade secrets
- Supervising the activities of outside IP counsels, namely filing and prosecution of patents applications, patentability, and freedom to operate studies, and argumentation in response to office actions
- Providing IP coaching and training to employees as needed
- Qualifications include:
- Ideally around 3 years’ experience in an environment at the interface between business and IP matters, including experience with patent portfolio management
- Ability to develop and communicate efficiently strategic plans necessary to provide a strong IP position for the Company’s products
- Leadership, agility and communication; ability to decide in a complex environment, and to collaborate with all stakeholders of the Company
- A technical background in chemistry / chemical engineering would be a plus
- What we offer:
The Calyxia team is passionate about transforming the products of our daily lives, with innovation as our core value. We offer coaching and training of promising candidates to fast track your career and evolve within 2-5 years towards building and managing the IP department of the fast-growing multinational Calyxia Group.
CDI position based in Bonneuil-sur-Marne, France.
Please send your applications to damien.demoulin 'arobase' calyxia.com
