Licensing Sales Manager
Team: LINE FRIENDS Business Development (LINE+ HK)
LINE FRIENDS Hong Kong is an energetic, fun and passionate business team with core business in Characters Licensing, Marketing Collaborations and Retail & B2B Partnership.
As a Licensing Sales Manager at LINE FRIENDS Hong Kong, you will play a pivotal role in growing licensing business in Hong Kong and Macau with:
- enriching brand portfolio through partnership with renowned brands/licensees
- driving the company's sales growth
- achieving ambitious targets
- delivering the exceptional results on brand awareness
Responsibilities
- Identify character business trends and market potentials, including but not limited to, providing creative ideas for new business pitches
- Develop and execute brand strategies to achieve and enhance the company's aggregated sales targets and brand awareness
- Manage licensing KPI and prepare licensing sales trend report for management
- Negotiate and manage licensing agreements with partners
- Manage and discuss sales target with licensees through regular sales review meetings
- Establish strong relationships with all internal and external parties
- Facilitate discussions between the brand team, creative team, and licensees on project directions, ensuring all deliverables meet brand standards and are of high quality
- Be patient and detail-oriented in working with company systems and workflows
- Assist in ad-hoc company events/ projects as assigned
Basic Qualifications
- University degree or above with majoring in Business, Marketing, Communications, or other related fields
- Over 5 years of experience in characters licensing is a strong advantage
- Demonstrate track record of sales achievement
- Strong presentation, analytical and communication skills are required
- Fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin
- Advanced user of Microsoft Excel, Power Point and Word
Preferred Qualifications
- A passion for the characters business would be an advantage
- A candidate with good reading and speaking skills in Korean will be a plus
- Occasionally work on weekends, public holidays, and non-working hours to support ad-hoc events/tasks
- Business travel is infrequent but required when necessary
- Immediate availability preferred
Location
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Others
This position applies three months of probation period and this period can be extended based on the performance review.