Global IP Strategist

Published since: 30.04.2024

 

TRATON AB has a role, for 30.04.2025

 

TRATON AB – Work Environment

 

With its brands Scania, MAN, Volkswagen Truck & Bus and INTERNATIONAL, and with its new business area TRATON Research & Development (R&D), TRATON Group is one of the world’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers. Its offering comprises light-duty commercial vehicles, trucks, and buses. Diversity & Inclusion is big part of our identity therefore all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnic or national origin, gender, gender identity, religion, views, age, disability, sexual orientation, skin color, political views, social background, or any other characteristics protected by law. Even if you do not fully meet our ideal profile, we look forward to receiving your application, including your CV and references.

 

Position Details

 

• What kind of position/job is this? This is a full-time/permanent position within the TRATON AB
• Where is the job located? This position is based in Södertälje, Sweden
• Who will I be reporting to? Functional reporting line – TRATON AB / Head of R&D Strategic Planning: Erik Frenne; Disciplinarian reporting line – TRATON AB / Head of R&D Strategic Planning: Erik Frenne
• Which brand will I be working for? TRATON Holding, with all Brands: Scania, MAN, VWTB and International

 

About us

 

TRATON has the ambition for its IP portfolio to become a strategic asset with the potential to enable and support the business opportunities that lie ahead. This requires an IP strategy that integrates relevant stakeholders in the organization and a governance structure that supports this strategy and ensures commitment from the stakeholders. The development and continuous improvement of this strategy and governance structure will be the main purpose of the IP strategist. To achieve this, the position must have extensive skills in patents and other relevant types of IP, as well as skills in management, organization and business.

 

In the first phase of the target model, the IP strategist will also coordinate the IP-related work performed by the IP departments at the brands. As the amount of IP and IP-related work at TRATON increases, the IP-staff at the brands will be transferred to their respective national entity of Group R&D. This will reduce the need for coordination, and the role of the IP strategist will change accordingly.

 

Your tasks

 

In the Role as IP strategist, you will be part of the Group R&D IP Team and work with Group R&D, Legal and brand IP departments. You are together responsible for developing and continuously improving an IP strategy that reflects the changing commercial and technical environment of the transport industry and the business opportunities this entails, and the potential for IP to support these opportunities.

 

 To ensure that you will:

 

• Create commitment from main stakeholders within the organization, in particular Group R&D and Legal, in the governance of the IP portfolio
• Develop and continuously improve the processes necessary for the implementation of the IP strategy, in particular the processes for the management of new inventions, patent applications and IP risk management related to TRATON R&D inventions generated within Group R&D
• Coordinate the IP resources at the brands together with the IP managers to safeguard the same level of high-quality IP support to all Group R&D entities
• Manage the budget related to the generation and maintenance of the patent portfolio at TRATON R&D, IP risk management, enforcement, litigation and commercialization including any external experts that are engaged in such activities

As the IP strategist, you will be working with all brands in the Group, and it is therefore important to have a Group view and frequent contacts with all brands.

 

Your qualification/ minimum requirements

 

• Wide network within TRATON Group and the brands' IP departments
• Ability to engage with different types of level and people to work towards common goals
• Analytical skills, including the ability to solve complex problems
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic work environment
• Performance of strategic IP work, including portfolio management, and how this can be aligned with business aspirations
• Organization of IP-related processes involving R&D and other relevant stakeholders in the organization
• Management of new inventions, patent applications, and IP risk management
• Communication will be in English
• Some travel to the TRATON Holding sites might be required.

Recruiting Process

 

Recruiting process if selected: 30min Teams Technical Screening with TRATON AB Hiring Manager or their team member, and may include the Brand IP Managers, Cross Brand Interview, Candidate selection, Offer Phase

 

Resume and Interview

Application and interview language is English no cover letter needed

 

Contacts

 

 

Application Period

 

Applications will be accepted until 14.05.2025. A background check might be conducted. 

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