WNS Global Services
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AssistantManagerResearch
“Assistant Manager-Research at WNS Global Services. Skills: Patent search and analysis, Competitive Intelligence, Scientific and business research, Intellectual property research, Database searching. Conduct Intellectual property research and analysis efforts for identification, analysis and reporting of project-relevant data to derive meaningful/actionable insights. Develop optimum search strategy, screen and analyse patent families to gather scientific and competitive intelligence for consumer ”
What You'll Achieve.
Generate solutions/answers relevant to client’s key intelligent questions; Derive meaningful/actionable insights; Ensure quality of reports that offer contextually relevant insights
Industry & Context.
Generate solutions/answers relevant to client’s key intelligent questions; Derive meaningful/actionable insights; Steps to plug in the data gaps
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Masters in Pharma/Life Sciences/Medicine/ Biomedical engineering/ Allied fields, with relevant post-qualification experience in the patent, scientific, and/or business research space, M. Pharm/MSc/MBBSDS, 4 years of post-qualification experience in patent research for Consumer Healthcare or pharmaceutical business research/KPO, Expertise in secondary research with experience in using databases and open sources, Clear understanding and exposure to OTC/Consumer/Pharma Healthcare space, demonstrate clear acumen in competitive intelligence, scientific and business research, Proven strengths/clear aptitude in performing patent analysis and deriving competitor insights, Demonstrated familiarity and strengths in performing information searches/addressing queries in Patent Databases such as Thomson Innovation, Questel (Orbit), Innography, STN database (CAPLUS, DERWENT), Micropatent, PatBase, Knowledge on MS Office (esp. PowerPoint and basic Excel) and Internet searching skills are mandatory, Ownership / accountability, Flexibility to work on cross-team projects across all domains
Nice to Have
Awareness of market landscape, current developments, leading players, clinical research and products, Should understand the regulatory climate relevant to OTC/Rx space esp. in US/Europe, Knowledge of data visualization tools incl. charts and graphs, smart arts etc, Exposure to scouting projects or experience in identifying key partners/collaborators for product development
What You'll Do.
Conduct Intellectual property research and analysis efforts for identification
analysis and reporting of project-relevant data to derive meaningful/actionable insights
Develop optimum search strategy
screen and analyse patent families to gather scientific and competitive intelligence for consumer healthcare to generate solutions/answers relevant to client’s key intelligent questions
Execute short turnaround and long-term projects
Implement and follow processes and make recommendations for process improvements
Participate actively in hiring and retaining talent
Perform comprehensive patent searches using various databases
Retrieve information effectively by identifying relevant data sources
formulating efficient search strategies
critically evaluating information and organizing data for analysis
Assess validity of sources
accuracy of information gathered
data gaps if any and steps to plug in the data gaps
Create reports that offer contextually relevant insights in the Patent domain
Liaise with IT experts to accelerate development with automation and advancements in IP domain
Identify key application areas of a given technology to help assess its patentability
Compare patent pending technology with competing technologies based on cost & ease of use
Analyze scope of patents by understanding their claims & reviewing similar patents
Conduct search for relevant prior art to assess patentability of given technology
Conduct freedom to operate studies and prior art searches in the field of healthcare/ biotech/ electronics/ software
Address queries in Patent Databases
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with the team; Good interpersonal communication; Professional conduct; Actively participate in team related activities; Guidance to team members; Review of deliverables as and when needed; Flexibility to work on cross-team projects across all domains; Liaise with IT experts
Communication Scope
Good interpersonal communication; Professional conduct; Good scientific writing; Correct usage of English language; Audience-appropriate communication
Process & Methodology
Project management skills
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