Team Leader IP Formalities and Cross Portfolio support

Site Name: UK - London - New Oxford Street, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage
Posted Date: Mar 7 2025

Team Leader IP Formalities and Cross Portfolio support

This role is accountable for the leadership and management of a pan IP Cross Portfolio team supporting trade mark and patent teams in a variety of formalities activities. The role exists to provide leadership of trade mark and patent professionals ensuring quality, training, and development of a high performing cohesive team with the capability to deliver high-quality support to Intellectual Property.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

In this role you will be responsible for

• Leading and developing a highly skilled team of trade mark and patent professionals providing support to the IP team, delivering a high standard of support and ensuring a cohesive team that is engaged, energised and demonstrates all aspects of GSK Culture.
• The renewal process for trade marks and patents, ensuring the process is handled optimally, all appropriate rights are maintained, using systems and automation to deliver efficiently.
• The management of patents and trademark Recordals, running reports to identify rights requiring recordal, obtaining relevant documents, and instructing approved external counsel.
• Managing requests for domain registrations, transfers, and queries and managing relationships with external partners.
• Ensuring corporate and general powers of attorney are current and accessible to the IP team, maintaining a central repository and keeping Anaqua organisation records up to date.
• Ensuring that support activities for the IP team are managed smoothly, including working with our internal teams (GELRT) third party management activities, monitoring mailboxes, deposit account balances and billing queries.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Secondary/High school education or equivalent is required.
• Qualification in trade mark formalities is required e.g. CITMA
• Experience working within an Intellectual Property function either in trade mark or patent practice, or as a trade mark or patent paralegal.
• Strong understanding of trademark laws and procedures is essential.
• Excellent IT skills (Windows, Excel, Adobe) and ability to use Intellectual Property database management systems. Proficiency in using AQ modules and other relevant software.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Qualification in patent formalities practice preferred e.g. CIPA
• Must be well-organised and able to handle a heavy workload and cope with ever increasing changes, multiple deliverables, and deadlines, while maintaining a calm and professional manner.
• Excellent attention to detail, with strong capability for problem solving, analysis, judgment, and reasoning.
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Decisive, performance and customer driven.

Closing Date for Applications - 23rd March 2025 (COB)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.
When applying for this role, please use the 'cover letter' of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class ( US only).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.