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IP & Licensing Manager

King's College London - IP & Licensing

Location: London
Salary: £73,529 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On: 4th April 2025
Closes: 13th April 2025
Job Ref: 111885
 

About us

King’s College London is seeking an Intellectual Property (IP) & Licensing Manager to join an existing IP & Licensing team responsible for the identification, prosecution, marketing and transaction of IP assets arising from research undertaken at King’s College London. We are particularly interested in candidates with knowledge of medtech, biomedical imaging, robotics and healthcare engineering and the role will be closely focussed on activities in the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences.

About the role

The IP & Licensing Manager is a one year fixed term maternity cover role that will work with academic staff to ensure that intellectual property is identified, managed, translated and/or commercialised to produce impactful outcomes.

A key part of the role will be resolving complex due diligence, monitoring and commercialisation issues that require detailed analysis of technical, contractual, stakeholder and commercial factors.

The innovation ecosystem at King’s is a complex system so the successful candidate will need to be comfortable working in a dynamic network of other members of the IP & Licensing team, colleagues throughout the King’s innovation ecosystem, research teams, internal and third party patent and legal management specialists and commercial partners.

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until May 2026.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

  • PhD in a medtech related discipline
  • Detailed experience with intellectual property protection, prosecution, maintenance and administration.
  • Familiarity with determining commercial potential of IP in the medtech field.
  • Understanding of financial aspects of business and markets and ability to structure and develop commercial models.
  • Market research skills – techniques for searching on the web and other resources for information and individuals.

Desirable criteria

  • Experience with drafting and negotiating legal agreements and familiarity with contract law.
  • Knowledge of marketing techniques and market research and a highly developed network of licensee and investor contacts which they can evidence.
  • Ability to perform valuations (eg RA-DCF) to support alliance, partnering and other deal structuring activities.
  • Experience in industry in relevant medtech areas.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are due to be held on week of the 28th April 2025

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