James Hardie Building Products Inc. is the North American leader in fiber cement home siding and exterior design solutions. Hardie® products offer long lasting beauty and endless design possibilities with trusted protection and low maintenance. The company pioneered modern fiber cement building products and continues to invest in innovation to transform the industry. James Hardie is a high-performance organization, with an unwavering commitment to Zero Harm. The company proudly employs a diverse workforce of over 3,000 employees across operations in North America.
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As the IP Innovations Analyst, you will be the pivotal force between the company’s R&D and IP departments. You will have a strong technical and an equally strong analytical background. You will preferably also have technology landscaping and/or prior art searching experience. In this role you will have the opportunity to develop your technical expertise and grow your career with our international R&D and IP teams.
What You’ll Do:
- Collecting, screening, and analyzing relevant data to extract industry trends to enable informed decisions by senior stakeholders on the appropriate IP strategy in line with the business strategy.
- Ability to analyze and apply critical thinking to highly technical documents to identify information of relevance to the business and communicate this back to the business in a succinct, simple, and clear manner.
- Build technology landscapes and platforms comprising JH and/or third-party technologies to identify, gather and understand technology landscapes and third-party portfolios.
- Developing search strategies to support diverse investigations to identify, gather and understand third parties’ patent publications and other scientific publications, as part of the technology platforms IP landscapes and of targeted portfolio analysis.
- Working within a multidisciplinary team to review third parties’ technology developments to identify novel aspects of their inventions and overarching strategy and how that relates to industry advances.
- Focusing on patent strategies, filing strategy and the mapping of the products in the marketplace to support the creation of robust innovation, product, and technology roadmaps.
- Building a comprehensive understanding of the industry trends, to develop heatmaps and identify threats and opportunities and communicating this information to management.
- Maintaining and continuously improving R&D awareness of industry trends.
The position responsibilities outlined above are in no way to be construed as all encompassing. Other duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may be required and/or assigned as necessary.
What You’ll Bring:
- A University Degree (BSc/MS/PhD) in Chemistry/ Mat Science/Engineering/Physics.
- Ability to understand key business strategies and the link to the resulting IP strategy and able of executing strategic planning and effectively implement them.
- Proficiency in the use of search package tools such as: PatBase; Orbit Intelligence/Innovation; Pat Snap and/or similar.
- Be comfortable in dealing effectively with large data sets.
- Be comfortable liaising with different stakeholders, at different levels in the organization, to clearly communicate complex matters to stimulate discussion and follow up on the necessary actions.
- Be comfortable using your scientific expertise to collaborate and advise with our R&D innovators and IP attorneys with respect to intellectual property cases and issues
- Excellent demonstrable leadership, interpersonal, organizational and communication skills which are applicable across a global setting.
- Desire to learn about new technologies and innovations and ability to grasp new technical areas
- Fluency in English, with proficiency in one or more other languages desirable
Preferred
- Sound knowledge of the foundations of Patent Law, comprising filing and prosecution, with very good understanding of claim construction and interpretation rules.
- Proficiency in use of international public patent registers such as EPO, USPTO, WIPO and others to extract bibliographic and patent prosecution information and be conversant with the IP/legal language used therein.
What You’ll Receive:
- At James Hardie, we recognize that our success depends on our people. We’ve worked hard to build a generous and competitive benefits program that demonstrates our commitment to our employees.
- Comprehensive low-cost co-pay Health Insurance; medical, dental, prescription, and vision insurance benefits for every 30+ hour full-time employee. Insurance starts on day one!
- 401(k) Retirement plan that will match 100% of employees saved dollars up to the first 6% of your salary
- Paid holidays, paid vacation including Jury Duty and bereavement leave
- Wellness Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Parental Leave
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The expected compensation range for this position is between $85,000 and $110,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience, market conditions, and other job-related factors permitted by law. This position qualifies for benefits which may also include a discretionary bonus.
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James Hardie Building Products Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, veteran’s status, marital status, pregnancy, disability, or any other basis protected by law.
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Nearest Secondary Market: Los Angeles
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