Adamson Jones IP Administration Manager (Patent)

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About The Role

The Role

Adamson Jones has an excellent opportunity for a full time, self-motivated IP administration manager (patents), who wishes to further their career in a growing patent attorney practice. In this role, you will be managing a team of patent administrators, supported by the director responsible for patent administration, as well as handling patent administration work alongside your team.

The Team

Adamson Jones a part of Gateley, is a dedicated patent and trademark practice specialising in obtaining intellectual property rights for businesses and organisations in the UK, Europe and throughout the world. As part of Gateley, we work in a progressive arrangement alongside our colleagues in the wider Group to provide clients with the benefits of joined up thinking and can offer our clients a greater breadth and depth of IP services.

As well as obtaining IP protection rights, we also assist in managing and maximising the value of our clients' IP portfolios to achieve their wider commercial goals, whether this relates to exit, licensing, generating investment or other commercial opportunities.

We work with clients ranging in size from start-ups to multinationals, and innovative SMEs to world-renowned universities, and have a global network of overseas IP associates, whose clients we represent in the UK and Europe.

We are proud of our culture and values, which are based on being forward thinking, straight talking, bright and open, and working together. We offer a supportive and collaborative working environment, where you can grow and develop your skills and knowledge.

The Person
The successful candidate will need to be experienced in all aspects of patent administration, holding at least the CIPA certificate qualification and having at least ten years' experience as a patents administrator. Experience supervising and/or training other patent administrators, even if not in a line manager position, is also essential.
In this role, you will be expected to motivate, guide and support your team, and to supervise in respect of their duties and performance. A proactive approach and a commitment to high quality work is a necessity!

Duties will be wide-ranging within this role and will include:

• Managing a team of trademarks administrators, including supervising the duties and performance of the team, ensuring completion of tasks, and overseeing work quality
• Training of new members of your team, supporting the professional development of your team, including conducting appraisals, and liaising with the directors and HR as appropriate
• Work with the director responsible for trademarks administration in relation to implementation of new systems, procedures and policies relevant to your team
• Processing and docketing incoming correspondence in our case management system, ensuring that deadlines and other data are accurately entered, and tasks are appropriately delegated to colleagues
• Creation of new cases, maintaining client records, and quality control tasks to ensure that the case management system is accurate at all times
• Liaising with both fee earners and clients, and providing support to other members of the administration team where required

Our preferred location for this full-time role (37.5 hours/week) is in our Nottingham office, but consideration will also be given for the right candidate to work in our Birmingham office or another Gateley office.

An excellent salary is on offer for the individual that meets the company's needs. Furthermore, the added benefits package is also one not to be missed! Gateley are fully embracing the new hybrid culture, so a mixture of both home and office working is available.

About Us

The benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.

In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

We are Gateley
We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.

The 'Gateley Story' is the story of our people and our culture. It is what has got us to where we are today as a successful business and it's the driving force behind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is and this includes five elements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitious for Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team that have gone and above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.

Diversity, inclusion and well being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.

We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability, and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.