Manager, Licensing Job Description
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Manager, Licensing Job Description
- Oversee the entire process from prospecting best in class partners to contract negotiation to product launch with internal colleagues
- Develop partnerships with licensees, licensors and retailers
- Ensure deals (new, amendments, renewals) are made with the best partner(s) in order to maximize sales, profit and turnover of allocated brands/properties
- Liaise with internal team (retail, brand, business affairs) by providing regular updates, with external stakeholders
- Attend exhibitions, fairs and trade shows looking for trends and potential relationships
- Achieve and exceed personal performance targets
- Response based landing page and ad creative messaging/merchandising and optimization recommendations
- Existing online partners day-day management and support
- Product development for on-demand, virtual, and auction based licensing programs
- Support creative and product approval preparation process
- Strong candidates will be good communicators, well organized and able to prioritize multiple and competing priorities
- Strong candidates will also have a proven track record of converting data into insights and have the ability to influence non-finance people
- Ability to work independently with little direction and to tight deadlines
- Dynamic and flexible working approach
- Overview of strategy for area of responsibility
- Financial knowledge, including budgetary and internal cost code allocations
Manager, Licensing Job Description
- Reconcile artists commission statements to the ledger and process check requests
- Responsible for paying artists and aggregating all artist royalty’s from partners (Art.com and License Stream)
- Act as point person for artist payments and create artists quarterly statements
- Support CNL Sales/Business Development efforts in building out P&L’s/financial models, other support as needed for business development and partner management
- Primary point person for licensing and royalty processing platform partner
- Acts as primary liaison between Products, Pricing, Partner Programs, Operations, Legal, and IT cross-functional teams
- Consult with product marketing managers, finance, executives, and sales, to help identify, define and design the business requirements
- Manage development of licensing self-service delivery program, including identifying the infrastructure and services to support those business requirements
- Implement program automation project plans
- Represent the partner operations team at product launch meetings
- Relevant experience in soft and hard lines categories
- Retail relationships are desirable
- Min 3 years of experience response based digital marketing
- Knowledgeable about TV and Movie Entertainment content, electronic commerce, SEO/SEM, consumer products, licensing, gaming and virtual worlds, online auctions, digital marketing, website technology, paid search, affiliate marketing & online media, social promotion, and Internet connected devices
- Entertainment and/or consumer products or relevant experience
- Problem solves and understands multiple view points while making decisions
Manager, Licensing Job Description
- Review and analyze royalty reports for contract adherence, sales trends, appropriateness of doors, percentage sell through sold at off-price
- Support strategic initiatives for process improvement including centralization of licensing and royalties functions in shared services
- Continue to improve processes and deliverables based on current business needs
- Supervise team and provide timely performance feedback
- Responsible for managing and organically growing current business
- Handles day to day incoming requests from current client base
- Responsible for pro-actively contacting current client base to ensure maximizing opportunity for CN content to be licensed
- Participation in business development strategy
- Management of pipeline and actual performance to revenue goals
- 3+ years account management, business development experience
- Previous channel experience a plus
- Ability to capture and document business requirements from multiple sources
- Previous experience in managing cross functional requirements
- Manage the relationship with all licensees with day-to-day communication and follow through of all requests and adhere to seasonal deadlines
- Own and drive licensed product approval, including approval documentation workflow (create, maintain & distribute Licensed Product Approval forms)
- Manage and track sending & receiving all samples for marketing photo shoots, retail buys and ecommerce product shoots
Manager, Licensing Job Description
- Serve as primary, day-to-day contact for the Licensee
- Manage all edit and presentation prep
- Provide support at Line Presentations and participate in BU Edit process
- Manage order process with Licensee and P/L to ensure BU product needs are met
- Partner with BU’s to draw conclusions on sales performance, identify similar trends across all BU’s to impact future assortments
- Manage quarterly Executive Business Review prep
- Partner with Senior Director on quarterly product briefs for Design, BU’s and Licensee
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a Merchandising or Buying capacity in a related business or brand
- Ability to react quickly with a strong sense of urgency and attention to detail
- Experience in luxury goods/accessories industry and/or licensed categories a plus
- Willingness and desire to be a part of a highly motivated, passionate team
- Self-starter with a drive to take initiative of project responsibilities and effectively find solutions to achieve business results
- Team-oriented with the ability to work with many different departments with a collaborative approach
- Previous experience with licensing partnerships also desirable
- The ideal candidate has 12+ years of relevant enterprise software and solutions pricing and licensing experience
- Executive engagement experience
Manager, Licensing Job Description
- Structure and negotiate complex IP transactions in a cross functional team for a specific technology
- Understand and mitigate risks within proposed transactions
- Establish an ongoing, long-term external and internal network to create and assess development pipeline to commercialize new offerings and build-out existing/pipeline ideation
- Communicate with licensing partners on brand updates, approvals, creative asset needs, merchandising needs
- Work with licensees and internal groups to promote licensing efforts
- Work with Strategic Portfolio Management & Licensing partners to systematically discover appropriate licensing targets/opportunities
- Ensure close cooperation with SPM and ComOps in order to work on the optimal prioritization of projects
- Build and cultivate excellent relations with key supply and development partners aiming to strengthen Sandoz position in market
- Drive and facilitate decisions regarding licensing/partnering projects, through local committee (portfolio board)
- Work with HQ to ensure Nordic product interests are captured and those ventral discussions are leveraged to include Nordics
- Must have 2-3 years experience negotiating and prior experience supervising and training staff is highly preferred
- Ability to read and analyze contract and license agreements
- Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations, eg
- Ability to draw conclusions from working knowledge of issues that impact the area of rights licensing including copyright & trademark law and union/guild issues
- Ability to make effective presentations on complex topics to client groups and employees
- Interpersonal skills are necessary to supervise and develop staff