Trade Mark Renewals Officer 12 Month FTC

IP Careers; Leeds; Hybride; GBP 24 000 - 32 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Parental leave policy

27 days holiday

Bonus scheme

Flexible working

Résumé du poste

HGF Limited is seeking a Renewals Officer to join the Trade Mark Renewals team in Leeds. Full training will be provided to handle multinational renewals, invoicing, and document production while ensuring accuracy and confidentiality.

The role requires strong organisational skills, excellent written and verbal communication, and proficiency with MS Office. A collaborative team environment with flexible working and career development is offered.

Qualifications

• GCSE English and Maths at grade C/4 or higher required.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• CITMA qualification would be advantageous but not required.

Responsabilités

• Be a point of contact for client’s renewals.
• Invoicing and billing for renewals.
• Attend to UK, EU and International trade mark and design renewals; instruct foreign renewals.
• Learn renewal requirements in each country and input dates accurately.
• Produce tables using Word and Excel; create documents with Adobe Acrobat Pro.
• Maintain a due-date diary and track renewal statuses to meet deadlines.
• Liaise with Paralegals and Trade Mark Attorneys to progress actions.

Connaissances

Organised

Proactive

Strong communicator

Microsoft Office usage

Formation

GCSE English + Maths (C/4 or above)

CITMA qualification (advantageous)

Outils

Outlook

Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Adobe Acrobat Pro

Description du poste

Hours: 37.5 (Hybrid 2 days a week in Leeds Office)

The Position

This is an exciting opportunity where full training will be provided for the successful candidate to become a Renewals Officer within the Trade Mark Renewals team.

Renewals is an essential function for HGF and our clients as it ensures that their protected rights remain intact.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a point of contact for client’s renewals
• Report using standard letters for renewals
• Invoicing/billing
• Attend to UK, EU and International trade mark and design renewals
• Instruct foreign trade mark and design renewals
• Learning the requirements in each country
• Ensuring all dates on the system are input correctly
• Production of tables using Word tables and Excel
• Production of documents using Adobe Acrobat Professional
• Dealing with sensitive and confidential matters appropriately
• Continually track the current renewal status of cases and maintain a due date diary system so deadlines are met efficiently and accurately
• Liaise with Paralegals and Trade Mark Attorneys to ensure actions assigned are progressed within the required timescales

About You

You’re organised, proactive and thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. With excellent attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy, you can confidently manage and prioritise a varied workload while maintaining high standards. You are a strong communicator, both written and verbal, and are comfortable using Microsoft Office applications including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

You enjoy working collaboratively as part of a team but are equally capable of working independently. Flexible, reliable and calm under pressure, you take initiative, adapt quickly to changing priorities and approach tasks with a positive, can-do attitude. GCSEs in English and Mathematics (Grade C/4 or above) are essential, and a CITMA qualification would be advantageous, although it is not required.

About HGF:

HGF Limited is one of Europe’s largest intellectual property specialist firms offering a fully integrated IP solution, bringing over 200 Patent Attorneys, Trade Mark Attorneys and IP Solicitors together to provide a full-service IP solution.

With 25 offices across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland & Austria, HGF’s Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys provide specialist technical and legal advice to blue chip organisations and small to medium businesses across the world. Many of our clients are household names and the work HGF does allows them to protect and exploit their inventions, new products and branding.

Why move to HGF?

• HGF takes a transparent and merit-based approach to your career development and you will have the opportunity to shape your long-term progression.
• We’re a firm with a focus on DEI (Diversity, Equality and Inclusion), with a staff led DEI Focus Group, affinity networks and a DEI Board sponsor
• As a business we have a dedicated Learning and Development team focused on career long development of your skills along with a digital learning platformcovering a wide range of content
• Benefits including our award winning enhanced parental leave policy, 27 days holiday, bonus scheme and flexible working

HGF Values

People–People matter. We treat people fairly, with respect and compassion. We foster a friendly, inclusive and enjoyable culture for everyone to prosper in. We invest in our people and offer appropriate coaching and training to assist with development and learning. We promote a healthy work-life balance. Progression is based on merit.

Excellence– We strive to be the best. We pursue excellence in all our individual roles resulting in outstanding legal and technical advice for our clients. Our people are pragmatic, responsive and commercially minded. We do not presume but listen to understand so we can engage proactively and appropriately.

Teamwork– We stand together. We work with our clients to protect their interests, and with each other as a mutually supporting firm. We value, appreciate and listen to others, regardless of role, recognising each individual’s particular blend of talent, skill and experience. We are individually and jointly accountable and take responsibility for our actions and decisions.

Progressive– We innovate. We continually improve our services and processes through understanding, creativity, and investment. We evolve by taking opportunities and adopting new business procedures, unencumbered by historical structures or out-of-date attitudes. As a firm, we have an entrepreneurial spirit, and encourage new thinking in our people.