Job Description:

• This position can be hire in Copenhagen (hybrid model), Paris (hybrid model), Lisbon (hybrid model) or Germany (fully remote)

At Ferring Pharmaceuticals, we help people around the world build families and live better lifes. We are entrepreneurial and innovative, with a global team focused on scientific advances in the areas of reproductive and women’s health, gastroenterology and urology. Ferring + You is all about working together and sharing ideas, so that we can bring science to life for patients around the world.
Every person at Ferring works together to change lives and help people build families. Our corporate teams offer empowering, innovative, challenging and rewarding careers – we are motivated to make a difference. To reach our full potential we collaborate, and respect and value diverse contributions so that we can grow as an organization and as professionals. Together we can influence the world around us to make life and work better.
Ferring+You
Joining a team of experts in trademark law, you will play a key facilitating role as we continue to develop IP management strategies, driving innovation in the field. With a strong emphasis on empowerment & teamwork, we succeed in making impactful deliverables, shaping the future of Ferring’s brand rights.
As Global Brand IP Counsel, you will be responsible for ensuring that Ferring’s brand intellectual properties are developed, protected & leveraged in line with, and to enable, its global strategy & KPIs. You will have diverse and autonomous cross-functional & external exposure, and you will be an influential business partner and Brand IP ambassador.
The role may require up to 15% travel.
Your day at Ferring

Reporting to the Head of Global Brand IP, your responsibilities will include:

• Applying IP principles and concepts across global business activities.
• Autonomous management of Ferring’s global portfolio of Brand IP assets (trademarks, domain names, copyright, designs).
• Conducting & advising on legal and regulatory freedom-to-operate risk assessments.
• Managing competitor & brand surveillance, including subsequent dispute management, enforcement or defence.
• Business development partnerships, licensing & divestment or acquisition.
• Product & supply chain brand protection, including online monitoring & cyber-security.
• Developing & implementing new Brand IP deliverables and best practices to address risks, pain-points & internal IP awareness & compliance.

Behind our innovation…There’s you

• Qualified lawyer or attorney, specialised in intellectual property
• Minimum 8years multi-jurisdictional IP counsel experience, preferably global inhouse experience in pharma or a regulated industry
• Expertise with brand IP legal principles and their pragmatic business application
• Excellent organisational skills, with a cross-functional and growth mindset
• Proactive autonomy & collaborative team player
• Excellent oral & written communication and interpersonal skills, in English, with stakeholders at all organisational levels
• Strong business acumen and commercial risk analysis & counselling skills
• Availability to work in a hybrid model

People come first at Ferring

• Get inspired from our commitment to advocate for everyone’s right to build a family, no matter who you are, where you live or who you love
• Our inclusive support package – “Building Families at Ferring” provides equal and accessible policies for all employees who wish to start their family journey, ensuring a global standard, irrespective of location and role
• Parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents
• Extended support on family building journey

Making a difference in the life of millions of people means we succeed by working together. Our diverse backgrounds, experiences, expertise, and perspectives enable us to find solutions to even the most challenging problems, and our success is tied to each team member’s contributions. Imagine the power of your career when it’s Ferring + You.
Behind our purpose… There’s you
If our mission and your vision are aligned, please apply!
We strive to build and maintain an inclusive and diverse workplace with equal opportunities and mutual respect for all employees regardless of their backgrounds and socioeconomic status.
If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact the Talent Acquisition Sourcer, Patricia Martins (patricia.martins@ferring.com)
Location:
Ferring Denmar

• Applying IP principles and concepts across global business activities.
• Autonomous management of Ferring’s global portfolio of Brand IP assets (trademarks, domain names, copyright, designs).
• Conducting & advising on legal and regulatory freedom-to-operate risk assessments.
• Managing competitor & brand surveillance, including subsequent dispute management, enforcement or defence.
• Business development partnerships, licensing & divestment or acquisition.
• Product & supply chain brand protection, including online monitoring & cyber-security.
• Developing & implementing new Brand IP deliverables and best practices to address risks, pain-points & internal IP awareness & compliance