Assistant Chief IP Counsel, Director* (Remote - United States)

Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers’ toughest challenges. While we continue updating the Solventum Careers Page and applicant materials, some documents may still reflect legacy branding. Please note that all listed roles are Solventum positions, and our Privacy Policy: https://www.solventum.com/en-us/home/legal/website-privacy-statement/applicant-privacy/ applies to any personal information you submit. As it was with 3M, at Solventum all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Job Description:

Assistant Chief IP Counsel

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. People, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue. 

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The role is the Assistant Chief IP Counsel, Director for a global business, and this role reports directly to the Chief IP Counsel.  In this role, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.  Here, you will make an impact by:

• Serving as the IP attorney for the business operating committee and their leadership team; through this engagement, you will be responsible for providing counsel, expertise, and strategic advice to the business leaders and business functions
• Proactively and strategically advising and educating business leaders on key global IP issues to support and accelerate business priorities
• Partnering with the business to create and execute data-driven, externally informed IP strategies that support and accelerate business growth aligned to the business’s vision
• Managing, with outside counsel, the global IP portfolio, including strategic IP generation, right sizing the IP portfolio, and using IP to protect and defend Solventum innovation
• Managing all offensive and defensive IP disputes globally in support of the business’s goals
• Drafting and negotiating all IP centric agreements globally in support of business goals
• Assessing all new product launches globally in view of third-party IP rights, clearly communicating such assessment, and providing risk mitigation strategies to support business goals
• Proactively identifying, clearly communicating, and providing strategic counsel on global IP risks
• Supporting M&A and investment activity aligned to business goals including working with Corporate Development on deal structure and terms, assisting in due diligence, and working with outside counsel in drafting and negotiating deal agreements
• Partnering with other corporate functions and colleagues within legal to cross-functionally support and accelerate business growth globally and in all regions and countries
• Coordinating regional and local implementation of global IP programs and strategies as they relate to the business; this will require active partnership with both key business/functional stakeholders and with the IP functional and regional teams
• Developing and implementing risk mitigation strategies, conducting regular IP training, communications, and processes
• Managing the IP budget for the business
• Leading multiple projects simultaneously from end to end, from project ideation and analysis to project launch and monitoring
• As requested, taking on subject matter expert roles within IP and Legal to support overall Solventum growth and goals

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school, required licensure to practice law within at least one state, and license to