Manager, Licensing Job Description
Manager, licensing
provides technical guidance, mentoring, and follow SAP best practices in the provision of SAP, BI & BW Suite of applications.
Manager, Licensing Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective manager, licensing job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included manager, licensing job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Royalty
Advertising Spending
Marketing Spending
Off-Price Sales/Limits
Year-end Summaries
Audits and ensure timely resolution
CI Management and tracking
Working with the Service Desk and WTS staff to ensure all “live” client assets (PC, Laptop, Apple Mac, Smart Phone, Operating Systems, software ad licenses) are assigned to the correct business entity, location and individual through out the life of the device
Utilising lifecycle reporting, manage the full lifecycle of approved devices within the NBCUI estate from procurement to retire, including ethical disposal
Ensure stock controls allow for spares and availability of devices for new deployment
Manager, Licensing Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Manager, Licensing
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, CISA, PMI, PAHM, CIA, CISSP, CRISC, CISM, CGEIT, HQ
Education for Manager, Licensing
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the manager, licensing job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Education, MBA, Law, Science, Finance, Computer Science, Communication
Skills for Manager, Licensing
Desired skills for manager, licensing include:
Microsoft Office
Excel
General business practices
MS Office Suite
Demonstrate a high level of customer service and phone etiquette
Industry trends
Library market in ANZ
Best practices
Business Warehouse / SAP is a significant advantage
C#
Desired experience for manager, licensing includes:
Strong business development, people management and presentation skills
Proven ability to achieve revenue goals in an entrepreneurial environment
Work with the Service Strategy function to determine the strategy for future purchases, including testing and showcases
Working with vendors and internal teams to ensure the order process and approval steps are as lean as possible to assure NBCUI of IT’s ability to react to orders
Look for automation within the Order process to drive more efficiencies
Ensure financial agreement is valid on all spend requiring approval
Manager, Licensing Examples
1
Manager, Licensing Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of manager, licensing. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for manager, licensing
- 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
Qualifications for manager, licensing
- 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
2
Manager, Licensing Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a manager, licensing. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for manager, licensing
- 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
Qualifications for manager, licensing
- 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
3
Manager, Licensing Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a manager, licensing. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for manager, licensing
- 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
Qualifications for manager, licensing
- 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
4
Manager, Licensing Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of manager, licensing. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for manager, licensing
- 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
Qualifications for manager, licensing
- 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
5
Manager, Licensing Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of manager, licensing. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for manager, licensing
- 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
Qualifications for manager, licensing
- 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