Purpose of the Role / Key activities and accountabilities

Your key responsibilities will be:

Deliver reports on state-of-the-art areas and technologies within the ophthalmic field.
Maintain up to date reviews of relevant IP activities and scientific publishing of key competitors, researchers and research groups.
Develop and manage a pipeline of research collaborations.
Support NPD projects with specific demands associated to literature review and patent assessment.

Details:

Supporting ongoing New Product Development (NPD) through knowledge capture and management, and identification of new opportunities
Continuous literature review:
Identify research trends in the field
Prepare (write and present) reports on state-of-the-art of specific technologies
Filter relevant publications and add them to Citavi
Patent search and review:
Monitor competitor and independent research group IP activities (e.g. patent assessment)
Identify promising ideas for further follow up
Support the writing of new patents
Support to NPD projects:
Research and produce reports on background literature
Prepare reports to support decision making and critical phases of projects (e.g. preparing for clinical trials, support to risk-benefit analysis)
Supporting establishment and management of research collaborations:
Identify key authors & research groups and monitor their research activities
Support the technical and risk analysis of research proposals
Support and lead technical discussions with research groups
Support the writing and analysis of technical reports resulting from external collaborations
Supporting the development of new businesses opportunities (e.g. M&A):
Support ‘freedom to operate’ analysis
Support literature review to understand specific technologies
Support risk analysis based on scientific knowledge

Competencies

Core and role specific competencies

Good analytical skills.

Excellent technical writing.
Good ability to navigate across multidisciplinary scientific topics, especially those in the interface between engineering and ophthalmology.
Proactivity and creativity to propose new ideas and identify opportunities.
Ability to summarize and build top-level understanding of new topics whilst navigating through technical details.
Good communication, in order to report results and attend/lead meetings with different audiences, e.g. surgeons, academic researchers, professors, technical teams, company leaders.
Results-oriented.
Good ability to work with multidisciplinary teams.
Accountability for results and work procedures.
Ability to work independently.
Ability to work remotely, using different digital resources to integrate to global teams and to record the work conducted.

Qualifications/ Training/Experience

Essential

Master’s degree or higher.
Experience in academic works and literature research on topics including the interface between biosciences and engineering.
Experience writing scientific and technical reports.

Desirable

Academic experience related to ophthalmology.
Good knowledge of scientific methods and statistics applied to clinical data analysis.
Experience in patent analysis.

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