Adamson Jones IP Administration Manager (Patent)

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About The Role

Adamson Jones has an excellent opportunity for a full-time, self-motivated IP administration manager (patents), who wishes to further their career in a growing patent attorney practice. In this role, you will be managing a team of patent administrators, supported by the director responsible for patent administration, as well as handling patent administration work alongside your team.

The Team

Adamson Jones, a part of Gateley, is a dedicated patent and trademark practice specialising in obtaining intellectual property rights for businesses and organisations in the UK, Europe and throughout the world. We work with clients ranging in size from start-ups to multinationals and have a global network of overseas IP associates.

We are proud of our culture and values, which are based on being forward-thinking, straight-talking, bright and open, and working together. We offer a supportive and collaborative working environment, where you can grow and develop your skills and knowledge.

The Person
The successful candidate will need to be experienced in all aspects of patent administration, holding at least the CIPA certificate qualification and having at least ten years’ experience as a patents administrator. Experience supervising and/or training other patent administrators is essential.
In this role, you will be expected to motivate, guide and support your team, and to supervise in respect of their duties and performance. A proactive approach and a commitment to high-quality work is necessary!

Duties will include:

• Managing a team of trademarks administrators, including supervising the duties and performance of the team, ensuring completion of tasks, and overseeing work quality.
• Training of new members of your team, supporting their professional development, including conducting appraisals, and liaising with the directors and HR as appropriate.
• Working with the director responsible for trademarks administration in relation to implementation of new systems, procedures and policies relevant to your team.
• Processing and docketing incoming correspondence in our case management system, ensuring that deadlines and other data are accurately entered, and tasks are appropriately delegated to colleagues.
• Creating new cases, maintaining client records, and quality control tasks to ensure that the case management system is accurate at all times.
• Liaising with both fee earners and clients, and providing support to other members of the administration team where required.

Our preferred location for this full-time role (37.5 hours/week) is in our Nottingham office, but consideration will also be given for the right candidate to work in our Birmingham office or another Gateley office.

An excellent salary is on offer for the individual that meets the company’s needs. Furthermore, the added benefits package is also one not to be missed! Gateley is fully embracing the new hybrid culture, so a mixture of both home and office working is available.

The benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues, our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.

In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave, cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits.

We are Gateley
We are forward-thinking and straight-talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond.

Diversity, inclusion and well-being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley’s culture and values. We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone’s potential and achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/life balance.

Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company, a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability, and references from previous employers.

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