Job description
Location: Beijing or Europe (remote work)
Expertise: Intellectual Property Rights (IP)
Position: Full time
The China IPR SME Helpdesk requires an in-house IP Business Advisor to provide SMEs with accurate advice and manage a team of external experts. This role encompasses a number of key tasks that support the project team including but not limited to:
Customer advice
- Provide relevant timely and effective advice to businesses (within three working days), institutions and universities from COSME countries
- Create a dialogue with clients and provide on-going advice where required
- Record all answers provided and create template answers
- Record all infringement cases with the ACRIS database
- Ensure that 2/3 of the helpline users are satisfied with the service provided.
Expert management
- Manage and update the expert list and ensure the right expert is used for the right training or material.
IP Trainings and matchmaking events
- Present at IP training seminars and workshops, including online workshops
- Provide IP business advice to SMEs during IP training seminars and workshops
- Attend major trade fairs in China or in Europe in the case of remote work
- Advise European SMEs with IP issues at major trade fairs.
Legal research and update
- Assess the impact of the enquiry service through surveys and other forms of feedback and feedback to project
- Work with project team to measure and increase number of enquiries.
- Keep abreast of China and international IPR news.
- Overview the production of an IP challenge report every 6 months. This should be in line with other reporting and should feed into steering meeting presentations/updates where appropriate.
- Support research into the IPR challenges and regulations for specific industrial sectors in China
- Overview the drafting of 25% of new guides
- Review the drafting of tailor-made trade packages in collaboration with the other two regional Helpdesks.
Represent the Helpdesk
- Present the Helpdesk services and an overview of IP in China to visiting business delegations / delegations in Europe in case of remote work
- Represent the Helpdesk at meetings with stakeholders including the European Delegation, European Chamber and Member State Embassies / not applicable in case of remote work.
- Attend annual stakeholder and consortium meetings in Europe.
Skills & experience
- Higher education degree, e.g. Law, Business Administration
- at least 3 years’ experience related to Intellectual Property
- Good analytical and organizational skills
- Excellent project management skills
- Outstanding verbal and written communicator
- Strong planning and analytical organisation skills
- Responsible, professional, open-minded, and strategic thinker
- Near native English speaker a must, other European languages and Mandarin are a plus
- Professional appearance and demeanor
How to apply
Please send your cover letter, CV and salary expectation to bj_jobs@europeanchamber.com.cn
For further information, contact bj_jobs@europeanchamber.com.cn.
Interested candidates are encouraged to send an application including cover letter, CV and expected salary to bj_jobs@europeanchamber.com.cn by 28th February, 2020. Please indicate clearly for which position you are applying.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews.
send your cover letter, CV and salary expectation to bj_jobs@europeanchamber.com.cn