Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area:

Legal Group, Legal Group > IPR Contracts

General Summary:

Administers, analyzes, and manages licensing agreements to provide on-going contract administration support across IP licensing areas. Manages contract management systems and conducts research to prepare reports and/or correspondence related to the maintenance of license agreements and processes. Applies and maintains current understanding of Qualcomm policies, positions, and operations as well as legal guidelines related to IP licensing and contracts administration.

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Criminal Justice, Contract Management, or related field and 2+ years of contract experience or related work experience.
OR
Associate's degree, Paralegal Certificate, IP Certificate, or equivalent and 4+ years of contract experience or related work experience.
OR
High School diploma or equivalent and 6+ years of contract experience or related work experience.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Processes, finalizes, facilitates approval for, and distributes licensing agreements between finance, legal, and licensing manager.
•    Prepares summary of licensing agreements based on understanding of contracts administration procedures, structure, and guidelines.
•    Manages the lifecycle of licensing agreements (e.g., renewals, termination, amendments, address changes) according to terms with limited guidance.
•    Assists leaders across legal teams and licensing managers with preparing letters, notices, reports, and other correspondence to help maintain compliance with license agreements.
•    Inputs contract data and audits license agreements in various contract management systems with guidance to ensure data is accurate, high-quality, and up-to-date.
•    Researches, analyzes, and helps prepare reports on licensing agreement information to share insights with QTL counterparts based on knowledge of IP licensing and legal principles.
•    Understands and helps communicate terms and conditions related to contracts with QTL counterparts.
•    Analyzes and responds to requests for information in a timely manner, ensuring information is accurate.
•    Learns new processes and approaches to accomplish work and recognizes ways to improve existing ones.
•    Manages individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables with supervision.
•    Solicits and follows guidance to implement sound, ethical, and timely decisions.

Level of Responsibility: 
•    Works under some supervision.
•    Decisions are moderate in nature. Errors are detected and corrected with relatively minor financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships. May require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct.
•    Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey information that may be somewhat complex to others who may have limited knowledge of the subject in question. Role may require basic negotiation and influence, cooperation, tact, and diplomacy, etc. 
•    Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department. Erroneous decisions, failure to achieve results may cause delays in schedules and result in the re-allocation of some resources.
•    Some tasks require multiple steps which must be performed in a specific order; directions or manuals can accurately document the steps necessary to perform the task.
•    Some creativity may be required to troubleshoot technical problems or deal with novel circumstances.
•    Deductive problem solving is required to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required.
•    Incumbent's input may be solicited during strategic planning period.

The responsibilities of this role do not include:  
•    Does not provide supervision to others.
•    Has no influence over key organizational decisions.

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EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$28.85 - $43.27

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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