Sr. Director Licensing

NY - 11 West 19th

• JOB SUMMARY

  Strategic oversight and General Management of the Tory Burch Fragrance and Beauty business. Responsible for strategy and partnership through to execution across DTC and partner channels globally. Partner with brand founder in collaboration with VP Licensing and key creative leaders in order to drive innovative and successful brand relaunch. Leverage fragrance and beauty expertise to support go to market strategies across critical retail channels.

  JOB DESCRIPTION

  General Management

  • Accountability to Licensing P&L and DTC contribution

  • Key liaison with category partners across commercial and creative teams on both strategic and day to day topics

  • Category leader with key internal partnerships across Design, Creative, Marketing and PR, as well as Regional and Channel leaders

  • In collaboration with regional leaders, optimize global distribution across DTC and partner channels through commercial and VM strategies

  • In collaboration with marketing, commercial, and creative leaders, drive exposure strategies that optimize brand and commercial impact

  Creative & Merchandising

  • Work with founder, brand executives, and licensee to inform and articulate TB product and positioning strategy that supports brand, category, and commercial goals.

  • Own the PD process through development meetings, direction feedback and approvals, through to launch.

  • Manage and drive PD and asset creation development process across all touchpoints.

  • Partner with cross functional teams to project manage deliverables.

  • Share trend and innovation research to outline and validate brand opportunities in collaboration with category partner

  • Interface with TB divisional and partner marketing/PR and creative services teams to inform, align, and guide marketing and PR goals and plans to optimize the category through to approval

  • Reinforce assortment guidelines, merchandising directives, facilitate assortment reviews across key channels of business

  Commercial:

  • Monitor and analyze financial metrics, performance, and competitive landscape; identify challenges/opportunities and provide business updates with actionable recommendations

  • Engage with cross-functional partners on special projects as needed

  • Monitor adherence to contractual obligations

  • Maintain critical category records (i.e. approvals, directives, financial)

  • Create presentations for partner and internal executive meetings

  Qualifications:

  • 10-15 years – Fragrance and beauty product, commercial and brand management, Licensing

  • Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills. Must be able to interface with all levels of management.

  • Excellent fragrance and beauty product sensibility and global market awareness

  • Creative with an eye for trend and innovation

  • Ability to project manage complex projects and launches with multiple cross functional partners.

  • Strong analytical skills.

  • Self-starter and problem solver - strong sense of urgency and initiative.

  • Ability to multi task in fast environment

  • Diplomacy and sensitivity in communications

  • Strong Power Point, Excel, Word skills; Adobe Suite knowledge beneficial

  • Bachelor’s degree or requisite experience

  Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

  Tory Burch LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to an individual’s age, race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy) or sexual orientation, gender expression, military status, marital status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, disability or membership in any other protected class under applicable law. Likewise, we will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Ordinance No. 184652. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.

  Disability Accommodation

  Tory Burch is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require assistance or an accommodation with the hiring process, please contact talent@toryburch.com.