Manager, Legal

Position Summary... Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders; supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs; identifying and communicating goals and objectives; building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results; identifying and addressing improvement opportunities; and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training; mentoring; assigning duties; providing recognition; and ensuring diversity awareness. Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans; utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy; and providing direction and guidance on applying these in executing business processes and practices.

What youll do...

About Team:

Join the Intellectual Property Center of Excellence team to support Walmart s global patent portfolio. You will collaborate with and assist patent attorneys, inventors, and the business segments to support the invention disclosure intake process, address patent-related questions, and generate dashboards and reports about internal patent statistics.

The Intellectual Property Center of Excellence works to ensure that Walmart s intellectual property and intellectual property rights, such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, are protected and maintained.

What youll do:

• Assisting patent attorneys with conducting patent trainings for Walmart personnel
• Performing outreach to Walmart personnel, including in India, and helping personnel to identify potentially patentable innovations and to draft invention disclosures
• Assist with conducting patent landscape, freedom to operate, and patentability searches
• Participating in internal patent team meetings and patent committee meetings
• Utilizing and maintaining an internal patent database, ensuring data quality, and generating dashboards and reports to track relevant patent statistics and metrics
• Proposing and maintaining internal best practices and procedures to support the company s patent program, including keeping and updating process documents
• Responding to routine inventor and business inquiries related to patent status and patent metrics

What youll bring:

• Experience with Anaqua or a similar IP management system
• Experience working with engineers and R&D personnel
• A demonstrated ability to prioritize workloads and manage multiple deadlines
• You can clearly communicate complex technical concepts
• You are process-minded and look for opportunities to streamline for improved efficiency and effectiveness.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the world s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer - By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Bachelors degree in Legal Studies , Business Administration, or related field and 1 years experience in legal, claims investigation, or relevant area OR 3 years experience in legal, claims investigation, or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location... 4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India