许可运营专员经理
Associate Manager, Licensing Operations
职位概述
高级经理，授权运营支持授权部门的商业、财务和产品审批活动。该职位确保交易录入、报告、合规性和内部流程的日常操作准确性，同时参与更大的系统改进和跨部门项目。理想的候选人具备出色的组织能力，并对授权产品生命周期、产品审批和数据驱动的运营有实际理解。该职位在连接财务、法律、销售和产品团队中发挥核心作用，以保持顺畅的内部流程、准确的报告以及多个全球客户和授权方的产品与特许权使用费的一致性。
主要职责
授权运营与交易管理
- 将新的授权交易、修改和费率变更录入内部跟踪系统。
- 在多个系统中保持合同条款、财务参数和客户数据的准确性。
- 更新内部跟踪器，确保合同、审批和财务报告保持一致。
- 为销售提供操作输入，用于演示和客户讨论。
财务运营与报告
- 生成针对客户的授权使用费发票、实际销售额和交易历史的报告。
- 核对已报告的销售与批准的产品提交，以识别差异或合规问题。
- 协助年度和季度收入预测。
- 通过提供干净的数据、摘要和操作输入，支持佣金计算流程。
- 与财务部门合作解决报告问题并跟进缺失或延迟的报表。
产品审批与合规
- 审查产品提交、图片、样品和包装，以确保符合品牌标准。
- 与产品、法律和外部授权方协调解决审批问题。
- 跟踪从概念到最终生产的提交进度。
- 参与将产品审批数据与特许权使用费报告系统集成，以保持产品与销售的准确性。
- 为授权方解释审批流程、系统要求和操作期望。
运营系统与流程改进
- 参与授权系统的推出、测试和优化（产品审批、特许权使用费报告、交易跟踪）。
- 向 IT 和运营领导提供用户反馈和改进建议。
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Role Summary
The Associate Manager, Licensing Operations supports the commercial, financial, and product-approval activities of the Licensing division. This role ensures day-to-day operational accuracy across deal entry, reporting, compliance, and internal workflows while also contributing to larger system improvements and cross-department projects. The ideal candidate combines strong organizational skills with a practical understanding of licensed-product lifecycles, product approvals, and data-driven operations. This position plays a central role in connecting Finance, Legal, Sales, and Product teams to maintain smooth internal processes, accurate reporting, and consistent product-to-royalty alignment across multiple global clients and licensees.
Key Responsibilities
Licensing Operations & Deal Management
- Enter new licensing deals, amendments, and rate changes into the internal tracking systems.
- Maintain accuracy of contract terms, financial parameters, and client data across multiple systems.
- Update internal trackers to ensure contracts, approvals, and financial reporting remain aligned.
- Support Sales by preparing operational inputs for presentations and client discussions.
Financial Operations & Reporting
- Run reports on invoiced royalties, actuals, and transaction histories across clients and licensees.
- Reconcile reported sales with approved product submissions to identify discrepancies or compliance issues.
- Assist with annual and quarterly revenue forecasting.
- Support commission calculation workflows by providing clean data, summaries, and operational inputs.
- Collaborate with Finance to resolve reporting issues and follow up on missing or delayed statements.
Product Approval & Compliance
- Review product submissions, images, samples, and packaging to ensure adherence to brand standards.
- Coordinate with Product, Legal, and external licensees to resolve approval issues.
- Track progress of submissions from concept to final production.
- Participate in the integration of product-approval data with royalty-reporting systems to maintain product-to-sales accuracy.
- Support licensees by explaining approval workflows, system requirements, and operational expectations.
Operational Systems & Process Improvement
- Participate in the rollout, testing, and refinement of licensing systems (product approvals, royalty reporting, deal tracking).
- Provide user feedback and improvement suggestions to IT and Operations leadership.
- Help develop documentation, manuals, onboarding guides, and process maps for internal and external stakeholders.
- Work with cross-functional partners (US, Europe, APAC) to ensure consistent workflows and data integrity.
Audit Support & Compliance Oversight
- Assist with audit preparation by organizing data, reviewing SKU lists, and identifying reporting gaps.
- Support License Compliance by reconciling submissions and royalty reports.
- Communicate findings to internal stakeholders and licensees.
Cross-Functional Support
- Support Sales with the creation of PowerPoints, product decks, and business review materials.
- Partner with Product teams on online approval tasks and submission reviews.
- Support the global Operations and Finance teams as needed across time zones.
Skills & Qualifications
- Licensing, product development, or brand-approval experience preferred.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills; comfortable reconciling data sets.
- Experience with licensing systems, product approval portals, or similar platforms.
- Comfortable working in high-volume, deadline-driven environments.
- Strong communication skills with both internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Ability to work independently while contributing to multiple teams simultaneously.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to learn new systems quickly and provide constructive feedback.
Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the hourly rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.
Hiring Rate Minimum:
$60,000 annually (minimum will not fall below the applicable state/local minimum salary thresholds)Hiring Rate Maximum:
$80,000 annuallyIMG Licensing is an equal opportunity employer that encourages applications from qualified, eligible candidates from all backgrounds and life experiences regardless of race, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief.Originally posted on Himalayas