Ip Portfolio Senior Advisor

**General Information**:

- Date Published- 02-Dec-2024- Advertising Ends- 11-Dec-2024- Country- New Zealand- Location- Auckland, Manawatu, Wellington- Role Type- Legal- Work Type- Permanent- ID#- 10719**Position Description**:
**Our Co-operative**

**Fonterra’s strength is in the collective | Te Mātāpuna toa takitini**

We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.

When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions.

**About the opportunity | Mō tēnei tūranga**

**Advance Innovation. Strengthen Strategy. Drive Success.**

Join Fonterra's IP Asset Strategy team as our IP Portfolio Senior Advisor. This is your opportunity to play a crucial role in managing Fonterra’s intellectual property activities, ensuring that we unlock value while mitigating risks. From creation to commercialisation, your work will directly influence the success of Fonterra’s innovations worldwide.

Your key accountabilities include:

- Collaborate with innovators across Fonterra to identify, capture, and protect potential new IP, ensuring it’s managed effectively throughout its lifecycle.
- Provide insights on third-party IP activity and strategic advice to support business decision-making.
- Assist in developing robust IP strategies tailored to Fonterra’s product categories, aligning them with business objectives.
- Support IP co-development efforts, including due diligence and legal framework development for collaborations.
- Monitor third-party IP activity, assess infringement risks, and provide strategic guidance on oppositions and challenges.
- Contribute to developing and maintaining IP governance policies, ensuring they remain relevant and well-communicated.
- To note, we are open to an Auckland, Palmerston North or Wellington location._

**About you | Mōu**

At Fonterra, we celebrate innovation, collaboration, and the drive to create real value. As an IP Portfolio Senior Advisor, you’ll be part of a team shaping the future of dairy innovation and protecting the ideas that fuel our success.

Skills & Qualities that will help you succeed:

- Registered patent attorney qualification or equivalent, with at least 2 years’ post-qualification experience.
- A tertiary qualification in a relevant scientific discipline such as dairy science, food science, biotechnology, or chemistry.
- A strategic mindset with growing expertise in IP strategy and commercialisation.
- Strong skills in patent drafting, prosecution, and trade secrets management.
- A collaborative approach, with the ability to clearly communicate complex IP topics to a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a global perspective to drive results in a dynamic environment.

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**The benefits of life at Fonterra | Ngā painga o te mahi ki Fonterra**

Our people and what they bring to our Co-op shape our success. We have a collaborative culture, inspiring leaders, and passionate people, making Fonterra a great place to work. We also offer competitive remuneration and a range of benefits, regardless of your role or location.

**Our story | Ō mātou kōrero**

Being part of Fonterra means being part of a unique history, realising the potential of dairy for generations to come, and solving for a better future together.
- Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit, guides a common strength and purpose.
- Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people at the heart of what we do.
- Kaitiakitanga ensures we care for the land, farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.
- Whakaohooho inspires us all with excellent career development opportunities, benefits, flexibility, and balance to suit everyone's lifestyles and choices.

Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations.

Sound good to you? Come join our whānau and let’s solve for better, together. You, me, us together. Tᾱtou tᾱtou.