Trade Mark Renewals Officer FTC

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

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.

• 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

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.

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.

• 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 platform covering a wide range of content
• Benefits including our award winning enhanced parental leave policy, 27 days holiday, bonus scheme and flexible working

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…