Global Trademarks Specialist

**Date**:20 Dec 2024

**Department**:Legal & Corporate Affairs

**Team**:Legal, Compliance & Internal Audit

**Job Type**:Direct Employee

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Location**:Parma, IT

**_About us_**
- Based in Parma, Italy, Chiesi is an international research-focused pharmaceutical and healthcare group with over 85 years’ experience, operating in 31 countries with more than 7,000 employees (Chiesi Group). To achieve its mission of improving people’s quality of life by acting responsibly towards society and the environment, the Group researches, develops and markets innovative drugs in its main therapeutic areas**:Discover more here**
- We are proud to to have been awarded with **B Corp Certification**, a recognition of **high social and environmental standards**. We are a **reliable** company that adopts and promotes a **transparent and ethical behavior** at all levels.
- We believe that the success of **Chiesi is built and shaped by our people and our strong set of shared Values and Behaviors**. Our people make a critical difference to our success, which is why it is vital that we attract and retain the right talent who will continue to enrich our culture by living and breathing our values and behaviors.
- We are committed to **embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities.** In fact, we are a global family made up of different cultures, different genders, generations, ethnicities, abilities, sexual identities and many other enriching diversities.

**_Chiesi Corporate Functions_**
- These are the functions supporting the business:

- Global HR
- Global Finance, Procurement & IT
- Group Legal & Corporate Affairs
- Global Communication & External Relations
- Transformation
- Global Strategy, Sustainability and Growth (SSG)

**_Who we are looking for_**

**Purpose**
- The Trademark Specialist is responsible for ensuring the protection, management and development of trademarks portfolio inside the Group and assure results aligned with its strategic objectives through competencies, proactivity, high quality services and ever closer and more dynamic relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Execute domestic and international trademark searches, including trademark screening and searching online as well as evaluation of search results and opinions, to determine availability and scope of potential rights.
- Monitor existing Global trademarks, through online watching services.
- Provide support to local Attorneys in filing, renewal and opposition matters.
- Instruct and support local Attorneys in filing, renewal and opposition matters.
- Prepare status charts, due date reports and summaries of current trademarks protection.
- Support to geo-expansion project of trademarks product ensuring all the trademark activities to be aligned with the product registration and launch.

**Experience Required**
- 2-3 years of Trademark experience in Intellectual Property and/or legal environment. Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is a plus.**Education**
- Bachelor’s degree in Law. Other degree with related work experience may be used in lieu of formal education.

**Languages**
- Fluent English

**Technical Skills**
- Knowledge of the most relevant trademark laws and regulations.
- Experience in on-line database searching, including trademark databases and other on-line sources (i.e. SAEGIS, TESS, TMview, WIPO Global Brand Database).
- Knowledge of Copyright Law and regulations is a plus.

**Soft Skills**
- Analytical skills
- Negotiation skills
- Customer orientation
- Problem solving
- Communication skills

**_ What we offer_**
- You would join a dynamic, fast-growing, challenging and friendly environment.
In Chiesi we firmly believe that **our people are our most valuable asset**, that is why we invest in continuous training, learning and development. Therefore, we strive to continuously promote and satisfy development needs, paying particular** attention to the quality of our working environment and to collective well-being.**
**We want our people to come to work happy every day**, and we know how important it is to find the right work-life balance in order to be able to give our best. That is why we offer flexible working approach, remote working, support in the relocation process, tax assistance service for foreign colleagues and many other people-care services.