Senior Manager, Licensing

• Lead licensing negotiations and deal teams to develop and execute patent licensing opportunities, especially in the IoT domain.
• Collaborate with the litigation team to drive litigation strategy, meet Licensing business goals, and manage multiple concurrent licensing engagements.
• Require 7+ years of relevant patent licensing sales experience with patent out-licensing background and a Master of Laws degree.
• Demonstrate strong negotiation, presentation, project management, analytical and financial skills, willingness to travel, and excellent English communication.

Technology Standards licenses Nokia’s intellectual property, building on Nokia's continued innovation and decades of R&D leadership in technologies deployed in virtually all connected devices today.

The Licensing team engages with companies benefiting from Nokia innovations in their solutions across various industry verticals, including but not limited to mobile and consumer electronics devices, automotive and various other IoT solutions as well as multimedia solutions. Licensing leverages Nokia’s strong essential patent portfolio related to connectivity and video standards, as well as other patents covering further technology areas in Nokia’s R&D focus.

In this role, you will support the Licensing team identifying, developing, and executing patent licensing opportunities especially in the IoT domain. 

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE AND WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Lead licensing negotiations and deal teams for licensing deals 
• Collaborate with the litigation team to develop and drive litigation strategy and execution. 
• Drive work to meet the Licensing business goals and targets.
• Must be able to multitask across multiple licensing engagements and lead several license negotiations concurrently while prioritizing effectively. 
• Demonstrate strategic thinking to design and develop projects, processes, and content relevant especially for our IoT patent licensing domain. 
• Contribute to building business strategy to address internal or external business and customer issues.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 7+ years of relevant, patent licensing sales, work experience. Experience in patent out-licensing is a must.
• University degree: Master of Laws.
• Good negotiation, influencing and presentation skills as well as a team player mindset.
• Project management skills, and determination to see things through to completion.
• Thinks and acts creatively in order to develop and apply new innovative approaches to complex problems.
• Analytical skills and understanding of financial analyses.
• Willingness to travel and to work under pressure.
• Communication skills, excellent command of written and spoken English.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Some of our benefits in Finland:

• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements to support work–life balance
• A minimum of 90 days of Maternity and Paternity Leave based on eligibility
• Edenred benefit voucher - 400€ per year
• Annual bonus - based on individual and company performance
• Health and well-being support - occupational health services, well-being programs, employee resource groups, reimbursement for spectacle lenses, life insurance and gyms at every site
• Personal Support Service 24/7 – a confidential support channel open to all Nokia employees and their families in challenging situations
• Share in Success – voluntary employee share purchase plan
• Employee Referral program – reward yourself and support Nokia by referring a friend to apply to Nokia
• Career growth & learning - technical career path, job rotation, coaching and digital learning platforms
• Car benefit – the eligibility for a company car is based on employee’s job grade