Contract and Legal Engineer (Intellectual Property)
Pau, France
Job Reference 1251289
Location Pau, France
Industry Other
Function Supply Chain / Purchasing
Job Type Contract
Date Added November 13, 2024
Job Title: Contract and Legal Engineer (Intellectual Property)
Starting date: Jan 2025
• Location: PAU, France
• Status: Residential
Duration: 12 months renewable contract
Mission Context TGP is looking for a contractual and legal engineering service on R&D contracts
Objectives and deliverables Ensure compliance of the Client's contracts during negotiations:
• Ensure the intellectual property, liability, HSE and Anti-Corruption clauses of the contract models during negotiations Negotiation of contracts concerning the Client's R&D:
Establish R&D contracts in compliance with the Client's procedures and operating rules based on existing internal templates
? Perform multi-level contractual risk analysis (HSE, responsibilities, country constraints, financial, tax, legal, patent, intellectual property, compliance, operational implementation)
? Define the contractual and IP strategy in agreement with the Client's teams (technical, legal, patent and valuation engineers)
? Propose strategies and actions during negotiations
? Negotiate and draft contractual and commercial terms with our academic and industrial partners (NDAs, Services, Cooperations, PIGs, Industrial Licenses, Technology Transfers, etc.) in conjunction with the Client (the R&D prescribers) with particular attention to Intellectual Property, confidentiality and the risk of contamination
? Establish R&D agreements from internal ad hoc templates (questionnaires, clausiers, standard contracts or non-standard contracts)
? Monitor and know the markets, in liaison with the Client (the prescribers, with adaptation to the R&D Area)
? Monitor and manage contracts (regular meetings with the Client responsible for R&D Programs, etc.).
? Participate in the acceleration of the harmonization of the Client's practices in terms of Intellectual
Property and research contracts to improve operational efficiency
? Ensure the continuity of services of signed contracts to the Client's teams (R&D prescribers)
? Formalize the Feedback on Experiences (REX) of files deemed relevant
? Implement contracts in the Client's various tools The Service Provider will be in contact with:
o ? with different types of suppliers: SMEs, VSEs, EURLs, Universities, Public or Private Institutions and Institutes and from various countries, in France and internationally.
? with the legal and commercial managers of companies and organizations, private and public. Available: - Final report of the service (at least by default)
Skills:
Knowledge of industrial operations Confirmed Practice of business law / international contracts / Intellectual Property in the O&G sector in a law firm or in a company with a specialization in Intellectual Property Expert Experience drafting contracts Confirmed Anglo-Saxon legal (Common Low) Confirmed Experience in the international industrial sector Confirmed Knowledge of the post-R&D phase
Language spoken: French
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