Category Associate, Apparel

Job Description: Disney Consumer Products - Burbank, CA

CATEGORY ASSOCIATE, APPAREL

PLEASE NOTE: This position is Part-Time/29 hours

Responsibilities:


Primary category licensee contact for all product development.

Communicate with internal creative resources, business, marketing and retail teams

Address consumer and license concerns and requests.

Ensure licensee product lines reflect Disney quality and brand and property objectives.

Responsible for review of all pre-production and production submissions.

Coordinate creative programs across categories.

Working knowledge of licensee's production and creative capabilities and limitations.

Work with other categories to avoid and display implementation for property/brand product rooms.

Facilitate promotional approvals (PWP, GWP execution)

Generate invoices for product development.

Do trend research.

Do retail shopping analysis.

Be category and industry knowledgeable.

Support management in forecasting process.

Support management in Contract and Amendment process.

Develop a basic understanding of the marketing functions as well as brand and property positioning.

Develop an understanding of the retail business development function, retail distribution and the retail environment.

Facilitate retail sell-in information.

Requirements:


Bachelor's degree plus 2 years related experience or MBA

1-2 years experience in buying, licensing or product development and/or 1-2 years experience in retail

Good computer skills.

Strong organizational skills.

Solid written and verbal communication skills

Friendly, people oriented team player

Able to handle multiple tasks and assignments

Self-starter, motivated and proactive

Flexible