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This is your opportunity to join Deloitte's growing IP Advisory team. Deloitte IP Advisory is the leading specialist intellectual property service provider supporting clients across the globe with IP Strategy and Transaction Advisory Services.

We help clients develop comprehensive IP strategies, implement effective IP processes, build and strengthen their IP portfolios, asses, value and monetise their IP and seek operational efficiencies. Through our services, clients are able to understand their competitive position, build value, manage risks and unlock additional income streams.

The IP Advisory team includes business builders, licensing executives, IP valuation professionals, and technologists with decades of experience working with multinational FTSE and Fortune 100 companies as well as SME’s and academic institutions.

Our clients operate in fast-paced industries, across all industry sectors. We look to recruit people who can keep up with the latest technology trends, operate across industries and technologies, assess future markets and gather and analyse complex data to evaluate the outputs of R&D and innovation activities and develop an understanding of a wide range of intellectual assets types, such as patent portfolios, designs, trade secrets and know-how, trademarks and software and their use in supporting our clients’ business objectives.

People are the heart of our business. We are a close knit, highly skilled team, well connected and recognised internationally as leading industry professionals. We can offer you a dynamic and challenging work environment, supported by professional training and development and the opportunity to work on highly significant projects.

We are open to discussing the different ways in which we are able to support flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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Assistant Directors within IP Advisory are responsible for managing advisory engagements as well as managing the relationship with clients.

You will have engagement management accountability and be responsible for ensuring deliverables are of a high quality and are delivered to the client on time and to budget. You will typically lead multiple teams of consultants working on parallel engagements, delegating effectively and using your interpersonal skills to guide, motivate and develop team members. You will be required to manage your own time and the time of others. Working closely with the senior leadership team, you will help to develop and train the more junior team members.

A significant responsibility will be towards supporting business development initiatives, developing new leads and opportunities, often through internal networking, and participating in specific campaigns. You will drive new initiatives while coordinating fully with the rest of the team. In addition, you will have responsibility for some aspects of operational management of the business.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage multiple engagements and engagement teams, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality deliverables and managing engagement profitability
• Ensure the successful onboarding of clients and engagements, managing risk and independence concerns
• Provide oversight over engagement execution, acting as a go-to person by clients and colleagues
• Proactively identify client needs and lead the preparation of adequate engagement proposals
• Actively support a wide range of business development activities and campaigns to identify new leads and develop opportunities
• Participate in client presentations and contribute to the negotiation process
• Actively support the IP Advisory team’s talent management and recruitment activities, and where appropriate acting as a People Leader
• Actively support the operational management of the IP Advisory business
• Contribute to the strategic development and direction of the practice
• Develop and manage an internal network to connect IP Advisory services to other service lines within Deloitte
• Mentor junior members of the IP Advisory team
• Manage diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution

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Deloitte IP Advisory looks for highly motivated, high achieving individuals with the following qualities.

Essential

• Excellent academic background in a life science or health care relevant technical or scientific discipline or equivalent experience
• Significant experience in management or commercial exploitation of IP within a consulting or advisory environment
• Demonstrable and substantial experience leading IP projects and teams in a fast paced and multi-tasking environment
• A robust understanding of the various types of IP, including their legal frameworks, protection mechanisms, commercial and strategic implications
• Examples of successful delivery of internal or client projects overlapping with Deloitte’s IP Advisory service matrix (available here)
• Proficiency with at least some software, databases and other IP tools that enable the effective management of IP
• Strong commercial acumen and market awareness
• Experience of operating with senior level stakeholders
• Experience in leading business development, from opportunity identification to conversion into sales
• Experience in building and managing client relationships
• Excellent report writing and reviewing skills, with an appropriate focus on attention to detail, conciseness and risk management
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both written and oral

Desirable

• Relevant postgraduate IP qualifications (e.g. LLM IP Law, Postgraduate Certificate in IP, MSc IP Management
• Other postgraduate qualifications such as MBA, Finance or Accountancy
• Academic background in the fields of Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Life Sciences or equivalent experience

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Strong financial planning is just the start. This is where you can change the fortunes of an organisation, working with great minds across our business. Because there’s one thing that makes our advice better than our competitors: our people.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

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“Deloitte gives you lots of opportunities to hone your skills and an open-door approach from the senior leadership makes it a great organisation to build your career with.”

• Aditya, Business and Financial Advisory

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Location: London / Reading / Cambridge

Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.

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Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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