Technology Transfer Manager

This co-funded position seeks a Technology Transfer Manager to manage invention portfolios and support the commercialization of university research. Key responsibilities include assessing commercial potential, protecting intellectual property, licensing inventions, and facilitating startup creation, with reporting obligations to Axelys and McGill. A Master's degree or equivalent in a scientific discipline, five years of relevant experience, and full bilingualism in English and French are required.

• The Technology Transfer Manager is responsible for managing a portfolio of reported inventions, its intellectual property assets and supporting the commercialization of discoveries arising from university research activities.
• The Technology Transfer Manager will work closely with faculty members, researchers, industry partners, investors, and entrepreneurs to maximize the impact and value of university-generated innovations through intellectual property protection, licensing, industry partnerships, and start-up creation.
• The Technology Transfer Manager serves as a key liaison between the research community and external stakeholders, providing strategic guidance on commercialization opportunities and facilitating the translation of research discoveries into products, services, and companies that generate societal and economic impact.
• Serve as primary contact for Axelys to ensure funding opportunities managed by Axelys, their calls for proposal and business intelligence specifics are appropriately disseminated in the university research community.
• Meet with researchers on a regular basis to provide general information and advice on the commercialization process, in order to encourage and ensure reporting of inventions and foster their success in a commercial environment.
• Identify technologies with commercial potential. Provide early assessment of an invention’s commercial potential and the opportunity to pursue intellectual property protection.
• Monitor and manage a portfolio of on-going reports of invention, patents, licenses and other commercialization-related activities.
• Perform market and competitive landscape assessments and determine patentability and commercialization pathways.
• Manage patent filings with external patent agents.
• Identify potential licensees for the inventions through networking, database searches, and partnership activities and actively promote inventions to external stakeholders, including pharmaceutical and biotech companies, venture capital funds, and others.
• Facilitate the creation of spinoffs by researchers, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows by connecting them to mentors, coaches, and other resources available or through Axelys and McGill.
• Draft, review and negotiate commercialisation related agreements and legal documents.
• Provide senior professional expertise to the various Vice-President Research and Innovation teams through the review, interpretation, and negotiation of IP-related terms in research agreements and grants.
• Provide senior professional expertise
• Provide activity and other reports to the Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation and Axelys as required.
• Attend and participate in meetings, workshops and events organized by Axelys (entirely in French).