Licensing Manager, North American

Gateway Licensing; Los Angeles (CA); Sur place; USD 95 000 - 105 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Miraculous Corp in Los Angeles seeks a Licensing Manager, North America, to oversee and grow licensed partnerships across the NA market. You will source, negotiate, and implement deals with licensees, manage the account base, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive licensing initiatives and product development.

The role requires a deep understanding of the licensing landscape, strong communication, and the ability to drive growth across multiple categories while aligning with

Qualifications

• 7+ years licensing industry experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with fandom-driven brands and engaged consumer audiences
• Thorough understanding of e-commerce landscape preferred
• Ability to manage complex projects and develop solutions
• Autonomous yet collaborative work style

Responsabilités

• Formulate category strategies to meet long-term brand plans and financial goals
• Drive new licensing opportunities and launch innovative collaborations
• Identify trends and opportunities across categories and retailers
• Negotiate and pitch licensing deals with licensees
• Collaborate withcross-functional teams to drive category business strategies
• Oversee contract management and onboarding in Flowhaven
• Maintain relationships with licensees and provide ongoing support to expand product lines

Connaissances

Communication skills

Time management

Organizational skills

Autonomy

Collaboration

Formation

Bachelor's degree preferred

Outils

Flowhaven

Microsoft Office

Description du poste

About the job

As Licensing Manager, North America, you will have the opportunity to work on the Miraculous Corp. franchise. You will oversee and grow licensed partnerships to ensure the successful development of our existing partners and launch of new products. You will source, develop strategic relationships, negotiate, and implement deals with licensees. You will manage and grow our existing account base, and lead the development of exciting new products. You will also collaborate with cross-functional partners to implement licensing business initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the SVP, Licensing NA and VP of Retail to formulate category strategies to meet and exceed our long-term brand plans and financial goals.
• Drive new business development by identifying, developing, and launching innovative licensing opportunities across key and emerging categories.
• Identify emerging trends, social insights, and cultural moments to uncover untapped categories, collaboration opportunities, and new avenues for brand growth.
• Establish financials goals and business strategies to achieve them, providing input in overall short-term and long-range budget targets.
• Analyze, pitch, and negotiate new licensing deals
• Seek opportunities for growth across new product categories and retailers and champion white space opportunities within North America.
• Monitor sales results to ensure revenues meet budgetary goals.
• Create and maintain the database of current and potential partners
• Serve as primary point of contact to provide support, information, and materials for licensees to develop new products and continued retail expansion of existing products.
• Collaborate with Consumer Product business leaders, Franchise, Global Creative Group, Retail Development, Finance, Operations, and Legal to drive the category business strategies across all Miraculous franchises.
• Lead daily communication with Global Creative Group to coordinate all product development benchmarks, including product approvals and any rush requests.
• Collaborate with Retail Development team to track performance, address issues and launch strategies. Together, ensure licensees are up to date on all major retail initiatives and are actively pitching products for all key seasons throughout the year.
• Handle day to day relationship with licensees.
• Provide support in the contract management process. Manage input of contracts in our Flowhaven system and ensure a smooth and timely process from beginning to contract signature with legal.
• Maintain knowledge of current industry trends and competitive landscape.
• Implement new licensee onboarding including Deal Memo set up, business health checks, and Creative 101’s.
• Liaise with creative team and partner through product development and approval process.
• Ensure licensees deliver product line suitable for core category & brand values.

Hiring Salary Range: $95,000 -$105,000
This position is based in Los Angeles.

Miraculous Corp is the groundbreaking joint-venture between Mediawan, Europe’s premier independent production powerhouse led by Pierre-Antoine Capton, and Zag, the innovative independent animation studio renowned for crafting original tales and IPs led by Jeremy Zag, that reunites all facets of the globally acclaimed Miraculous franchise. The mission of Miraculous Corp is to elevate the brand’s global footprint, overseeing both creative endeavors and commercial ventures to magnify its influence on a worldwide scale. Miraculous Corp aims to deploy creations around the franchise and opening the door to a new era of iconic characters and captivating narratives. Ladybug’s adventures will soon unfold new content around the world.

Miraculous Corp has 175+ employees around the world, with offices in Paris, London, Miami, and Los Angeles, and team members in Mexico City, Sao Paolo, Madrid and Dubai.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 7+ years working within the licensing industry in an entertainment licensing role; North America experience preferred

Additional Qualifications

• Strong understanding, knowledge and contacts within the Licensing Industry
• Experience working in fandom- driven brands and highly engaged consumer audiences
• Thorough understanding of the e-commerce landscape preferred
• Goal setter to meet department objectives and develop operational plans and processes
• Can work autonomously as well as collaboratively
• Comfortable navigating complex projects and developing solutions
• Flexible and able to adapt to diverse projects and competing priorities
• Able to creatively solve problems with an out of the box mentality
• Good understanding of Miraculous brand position and retail environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong time management skills and organization
• Proficiency in Flowhaven, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and/or Keynote