Licensing Associate, Home

Job Description

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world's most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Your New Role...

To deliver 'earned revenue' from a range of licensee partners for the 'Home' area of the consumer product business – developing product ranges, and partnering with licensees to land listings at key retail partners. The role will also include supporting all day to day licensing activities within the UK Consumer Products Category Team; including research, comp shops, attending trade shows, compiling reports/presentations and support on general tasks.
The role will partially manage a product / category area - with responsibility for a number of licensees; driving growth through product and range development across the WBD portfolio of owned IP.

The product areas are subject to change as the category area evolves.

The position will require regular travel to effectively manage & provide an excellent service to relevant licensee and retail partners.

Your Role Accountabilities...
• Manage relationships with all relevant licensing partners within the assigned sub-categories; ensuring they are updated with the most relevant and current franchise information, and are developing product against the contracted properties
• Follow up on new business opportunities as identified by the Senior Category Manager – where relevant, pitching IP & product ideas in line with the category strategic plan
• Co-ordinate forecast submissions from licensees, inputting the relevant information into WBD financial systems – working with partners to ensure they are providing accurate and timely forecasts in line with critical paths – flagging any upsides or concerns to the Senior Category Manager / Category Director
• Delivery of revenues to agreed quarterly budgetary targets within assigned partners
• Ensure a critical path is identified and adhered to for all contract renewals / negotiations within allocated licensee areas
• Establish, maintain and develop relationships with buyers of assigned categories at identified key retailers – ensuring internal WBD retail teams are kept abreast of all relevant information – facilitating a 'one Warner' relationship at retail
• Regularly cover competitors and industry developments, ensuring industry knowledge is maintained and constantly growing.
• Complete range reviews with licensee partners on a regular basis; ensuring that product development is reflective of UK consumer needs, and that partners are inspired to deliver the best possible for WBD
• Complete regular business reviews with assigned partners, ensuring past business is evaluated and best practice is taken forwards. Always ensuring that partners have relevant plans for targeted revenue levels
• Maintain relevant business tools, including, but not limited to; licensee contact reports; account plans; business plans; 'plan on a page' documents & forecasting documentation – ensuring shared, up to date information is continually available
• Develop and maintain relevant pitch materials
• Develop and maintain relevant communication tools for partners and internal team support (to include, but not limited to, 'Monday Motivation', Master pitch decks, & retail account trackers)
• Support Senior Category Manager with additional projects and opportunities
• Assist the team with general administrative tasks as relevant – which may include tasks such as booking travel, completing expenses, raising purchase orders & arranging meeting bookings

Current Warner Bros. Discovery employees will be given preferential consideration for this opportunity. This position will be posted for five business days.



How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dy9jx3-216-73-216-149-42 in your application.