Approvals Coordinator

Location: Brighton

Role: Temp to Perm

A leading designer and developer of licensed merchandise and apparel, our company has been building and maintaining close relationships with essential buyers, brand developers, and retail groups throughout the UK, Europe, and the USA since 2005.

We have two offices in the UK - Brighton and Manchester. Recently, we relocated our administrative functions to Brighton (in the North Lanes) and are looking for a special someone to join our family and help drive the business forward. It's busy!! Always!!

Duties include:

• Taking responsibility for the approvals process (from design concept through to delivery in store) with your own portfolio of licences as a key member of the approvals team.
• Ensuring that pre-production and production approvals are received in a timely manner.
• Uploading necessary information onto numerous licence and logistics extranets.
• Helping to ensure that the company tracker is kept up to date with production and approvals information.
• Maintaining and cultivating good relationships with licensors.
• Processing product samples as they arrive at the office in a timely manner, maintaining up-to-date imagery and inventory of samples.
• Working closely with allocated sales managers and providing support across a range of activities from initial design, sales, and approvals.
• Maintaining lists of selections across allocated licensors using available software.
• Coordinating sales updates/reports for licensors across an individual portfolio of licences.

Requirements:

• Strong attention to detail
• Good organisational skills
• Familiarity with business processes and systems
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent Excel skills
• Must have an interest in fashion, perhaps a related degree or a good academic degree

If you are looking for a challenging position and want to learn about the fashion industry, this could be the job for you.