Licensing Coordinator

Licensing Co-ordinator

Location: UK, London
Length: Start Date: 06/04/2025 End Date: 30/04/2026
Rate: TBC
Hours: 40 hours per week

Overview
As part of the CP Team, the coordinator supports the key category & country teams in helping to deliver our global objectives and the agreed strategy for CP in EMEA and beyond:

• Currently, the country and category leads have several operational tasks and while it's great to keep a soup-to-nuts approach, there is also a potential distraction tax from what is important in terms of account management and business development
• EMEA does not have a single coordinator in the licensing and retail side of the business, a gap that we will need to fill in the next years starting from this first resource

Key Responsibilities:

Business Support And Admin Duties

• Focus only on our Tier 1 and Tier 2 partners
• Work with Commercial and the Legal Team to assist contract entry, and ensure that a deal critical path - from business plan submission to contract full execution - is handled according to our timelines
• Help obtain quarterly sales projections from key licensees in support of the forecasting process, highlight upsides or sensitivities
• Support with Key Partner Meetings ? Help with organization (room booking, screening rooms, NDA's giveaways)
• Trade Show Planning - London Toyfair & Nuremberg
• Invite list deadline management - BLE/Nuremberg/LIMA

Category Coordination

• Assist the team in compiling and analysing
• Retail sell-through information, in preparation of business overview reports and ad hoc analysis as necessary
• To become Circana & Euromonitor literate & generate quarterly analysis
• Competitive Performance Tracking including retailer visits etc
• Keep licensees lists/ VLLs, and primetime lists updated, monitor the status of all activities, collect relevant data, and sharing reports internally
• Provide Country, Retail, and Marketing teams with any requested licensee/product information, in support of sales pitches, brand presentations & retail meetings

X-Regional Alignment - EMEA/ UCAN/ APAC/ LATAM

• Create a best practice network with other coordinators in the regions
• Ongoing liaison with internal market teams & agents providing information and regular updates
• Work cross-category with the Category, PD, Legal, Franchise & Retail teams, and departments to maximise synergy activity and develop opportunities

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience in the Licensing or marketing environment with a proven track record of solid analytical reports and sales presentations
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to work under pressure, prioritise, meet deadlines
• Go getting team player with strong communication skills at all levels
• Multi-tasker with the ability to be flexible & hit deadlines