Senior Legal Counsel Specialist

Our OEM Client based in Gaydon is searching for a Senior Legal Counsel Specialist to join their team, on a 12 month rolling contract, inside IR35. Please feel free to contact us to gain a better understanding of what this means for you.

Position Description:

This is an opportunity for a Senior Legal Counsel Specialist to lead responsibility in engagement with Creative (Design) and our Client’s legal teams to support the identification of intellectual property (IP) opportunities in time across vehicle, product and brand designs. This role will be responsible for developing an internal process governing the IP identification for offboard, digital, branding, events, and collaborations etc.

Items in scope include design registrations, trademarks and patents that will be developed by legal with input from this role via the Creative teams. Part of this role will be engaging with the Creative teams to help ensure that other companies protections are not infringed through identification and research to ensure that work that our Client intends to protect doing does not infringe on other companies design registrations and trademarks. Looking for someone to be able to work with the Creative teams/ understand how the creative teams work with knowledge of what is required for a design registration and trademark and able to manage the tight timings required e.g. programme management focus.

Skills Required:

• Project management experience - working with various people/ functions to tight deadlines.
• Intellectual property experience - design registrations and trademarks.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Experience Required:

• Industry design knowledge (automotive preferential but not essential).
• Creative mindset i.e. working with people from a creative background.
• Legal knowledge of intellectual property requirements i.e. designs registrations and trademarks.
• Project management - working with multiple people/ teams to get information at the right but tight deadlines.
• Ability to collaborate, guide and coach teams with little to no intellectual property experience.
• Ability to develop a process covering intellectual property which is understandable and relatable to all users within Creative.

Experience Preferred:

• Legal qualifications for intellectual property.
• Automotive design experience.
• Ability to work at all levels i.e. management and senior leaders.