Reporting to Brand managers and Head of licensing
- Item card & line list creation per brand in detail
- Submitting artwork for approval direct to brand or through portals/3rd party
- Product development and planning lines per license, per season
- Market research & knowing what licenses are hot/proposing new licenses
- Knowing the ins and outs of the brands they’re responsible for. Which includes knowing the characters, knowing what’s upcoming, familiarizing yourself with any related media
- Getting guide pricing on new items
- Working with SH/HK on product from start to finish. Giving direction to factories where needed
- Creating power point presentations per brand, per season, per customer
- Getting mockups/samples and setting up their respective areas in the showroom for customer meetings
- Sending out PPs and PDs to licensors for approval
- Gathering customer insight on current products, what worked and what didn’t
- Working with sales team on customer requests
- Providing content for mockups
- Working with designers on any licensor change requests and providing them information on when an item is approved
- Updating tracking documents per item. Must know status of items at any given time & push things along if they are getting late
- Testing product/buying product when it hits stores to make sure it is up to our quality and checking how it looks/if it comes with the correct components
- Creating proposal documents as necessary for new licenses and license renewals
- Submitting forecasts/royalty reports as needed and making sure finance is alerted on any payments that need to be made. Work with sales director for all forecasting.