About this role
Paralegal, Global Trademarks
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Under the guidance of Mondelēz International’s Director & Senior Counsel Trademarks, you deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in a legal specialist area of focus. You use your ability to work independently, your in-depth knowledge, and significant experience in a specialty area to apply legal knowledge in the practice area and propose legal solutions.
How you will contribute
Under the guidance of Mondelēz International’s Director & Senior Counsel Trademarks, you will deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in a legal specialist area of focus. In this role, you provide strategic legal support to the legal business unit, region and global stakeholders and work closely with them to ensure legal concepts and implications are understood and related legal and operational risks are assessed. You will operate systems and technologies relevant to the area of support, prepare documents, gather information, and interact with business partners to deliver objectives and provide expertise and experience in a legal specialty area to identify and advise on laws and regulatory changes for a given country and/or across multiple countries.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:
- Legal experience, ideally in a large matrixed multinational company
- Working independently and coping with time pressured situations and deadlines.
- Excellent problem-solving, project management, and time management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Technology and Systems Savvy; ability to operate and manage systems and technologies relevant to job.
More about this role
What you need to know about this position:
The Paralegal - Trademarks will be responsible for providing a full range of trademark support and advisory services across MDLZ regions, with a particular focus on the EU region. This includes the support & management of searches, filings, prosecution, Registry conflicts, and brand enforcement for the trademark portfolios within this region. Reporting to the Director & Senior Trademark Counsel MEU, this role also supports the Director & Chief Counsel Trademark in delivering the Global IP Strategy through active participation in key tasks and cross-functional projects.
What You'll Be Doing:
Under the guidance of Mondelēz International’s Director & Senior Counsel Trademarks, you will deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model within the specialist area of Trademarks.
In this role, you will:
- Provide strategic legal support to the legal business unit, regional, and global stakeholders, working closely with them to ensure legal concepts and implications are understood and related legal and operational risks are assessed.
- Operate systems and technologies relevant to trademark management, prepare documents, gather information, and interact with business partners to deliver objectives.
- Provide expertise and experien