"Caring for People's Health as a Trusted Partner" - This mission motivates us at STADA every day to improve the health of people worldwide. With our wide range of generics, consumer health products and specialty pharmaceuticals, we offer patients, doctors and pharmacists a wide range of therapeutic options.

Around 11,700 employees live our values of Integrity, Entrepreneurship, Agility and One STADA. Together we are on an exciting growth journey and want to successfully shape the future of STADA.

Do you want to become part of a dynamic, international team and grow with us? Then apply now as:

Patent Manager (f/m/d)

Bad Vilbel | Germany (DE) | Full-time | Permanent | Legal | Professionals

You want to accelerate STADA's pipeline with your patent activities in a globally operating Intellectual Property team and contribute to STADA's growth? We are looking for you as a Patent Manager (m/f/d) to strengthen our IP team.

What you can expect

• You will provide comprehensive global patent law support for projects from start to product launch.
• You are responsible for identifying the patent landscape and expiration dates of relevant patents.
• You conduct patent-related freedom-to-operate analyses.
• You develop solutions and strategies to avoid patents while minimizing risks.
• You identify and evaluate patent-related risks and opportunities by analyzing scopes of protection, assessing granting probabilities, enforceability, and validity of third-party patents and applications.
• You collaborate with external patent attorneys to challenge third-party patents.
• You review contracts from a patent law perspective.
• You handle and manage monitored patent applications.
• You advise departments on patent issues related to the projects.

Who We Are Looking For

• You have a degree in Chemistry or Pharmacy.
• You demonstrate excellent knowledge and substantial experience in European and German patent law.
• You have solid experience in freedom-to-operate analyses.
• Ideally, you bring professional experience from the patent department of an industrial company.
• You work diligently, reliably, and independently, with a commitment to excellence.
• You have a strong sense of responsibility and are a team player.
• Very good English skills, both written and spoken, round out your profile

• An open corporate culture with fast decision-making processes and a lot of potential for your personal development
• Individual development and training opportunities
• Flexible working hours and mobile working up to 2 days per week (depending on the job profile)
• Job ticket for the RMV region and Job Bike
• Childcare allowance
• Health-promoting offers such as Wellpass or the STADA Gym (free of charge)
• Numerous additional benefits such as group accident insurance or supplementary pension scheme
• Subsidized cafeteria

We look forward to receiving your application via our career portal. At jobs.stada.com you will also find numerous other job opportunities, as we are always looking for motivated talents who can strengthen our team with their expertise and personality. Do you have further questions? Then please reach out to recruiting@stada.de. We will consider requests to work part-time on an individual basis. Please contact us in advance by e-mail (recruiting@stada.de.) and let us know how many hours per week you would like to work.

STADA Group promotes its diverse culture, regardless of gender, age, social or ethnic origin, disabilities, religion, ideology or sexual orientation. We use the strength of this diversity to develop creative ideas, expand our experience and increase innovative strength. Our focus is on equal opportunities, respectful cooperation and the promotion of an inclusive working environment. #LI-MK1 #LI-HYBRID