What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Development Coordinator - Licensing position at Skechers?
The Product Development Coordinator is part of the licensing team who works with our global licensees to develop new and exciting Skechers products.
Essential Job Results-
About Skechers
Skechers (NYSE: SKX), a global, Fortune 500® brand develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Developing comfort technologies is the foundation of all we do – delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,200 company-and third-party-owned retail locations. Headquartered in Southern California, with offices and distribution centers around the globe, Skechers has spent 30 years helping people of all ages look and feel good.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Skechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.
Reasonable Accommodation
Applicants for employment who require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job should request appropriate accommodation by emailing benefits@skechers.com.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.
Essential Job Results-
- Manage review process of over 5000 weekly creative submissions (and growing).
- Oversee the monitoring of licensees, to ensure businesses follow established contract.
- Maintain new product development and creative design vision for all licensed product within multiple Skechers Divisions including but not limited to apparel (fashion and medical scrubs), kids, headwear, bags, legwear, watches, eyewear, auto accessories etc...
- Able to communicate with Licensees on a daily basis for tracking purposes.
- Maintain and manage filing and storage systems for all product categories.
- Liaise with licensees and Skechers internal graphics department as needed to ensure compliance with the licensing guidelines.
- Monitor sampling time/action calendars to meet all department/division milestones dates.
- Partner with Product Development Director in the review, evaluation, development, and acceptance samples, fabrics, trims and packaging.
- Track & Monitor on time delivery of all samples.
- Oversee and prepare materials and/or samples for Proto thru Production approvals.
- Work with licensees, domestic and international, to ensure compliance with licensing guidelines.
- Assist managing trend boards, color palettes etc.
- Provide additional support as needed (copying, filing, forms etc.)
- Store Visits – visits to local stores to monitor licensee product presentation and adherence on a regular basis. Check on competitive brand presentations and provide a review.
- Must be MAC , MS office suite as well Adobe AI & PSD proficient.
- Knowledge of product development calendar, timelines and deliverables.
- Ability to work independently, handle multiple projects and meet deadlines.
- Exceptional attention to detail and organization skills.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficient in Illustrator, Excel, and Word.
- Self-motivated, self-starter.
- Good follow-through with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously while responding to deadlines.
- Team player with ability to work with different levels of management.
- Critical thinker, proactive, dependable, resourceful, and flexible.
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About Skechers
Skechers (NYSE: SKX), a global, Fortune 500® brand develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Developing comfort technologies is the foundation of all we do – delivering stylish, innovative, and quality products. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,200 company-and third-party-owned retail locations. Headquartered in Southern California, with offices and distribution centers around the globe, Skechers has spent 30 years helping people of all ages look and feel good.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Skechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.
Reasonable Accommodation
Applicants for employment who require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job should request appropriate accommodation by emailing benefits@skechers.com.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.
Salary : $68,640 - $72,000
