Job Description
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities
- Drives the strategy and vision of 1-2 specific sports in the Fanatics Authentic portfolio.
- Manage the day-to-day operations of the Product team on a granular level to ensure a smooth flow of information across all departments.
- Work towards identifying various inefficiencies with key partners across other departments that cause unnecessary churn.
- Work with senior leadership across cross-functional departments intracompany to develop new processes and procedures to reduce future roadblocks to growth.
- Will assist in monitoring sales of unsigned products and aid the Product Team and outside vendors on various buying functions.
- Utilize League and Player's Association relationships to uncover new business.
- Will work closely with the Product team, leagues and internal partners to ensure accurate royalty data is reported on a monthly and quarterly basis.
- Will work with the in-venue retail and international business teams on growth-driven initiatives across respective business channels.
- Will communicate directly with members of the sales team and be directly responsible for the launch of unique items to the sales team.
- Will work with the Business-To-Business and outbound sales teams on the organization and execution of mail order campaigns for autograph signings including, but not limited to, ideation with the Athlete Relations department, pricing and communication to the respective sales groups.
- Manage all clearance and sale exclusions lists, working with the Product Merchandising team to ensure lists are maintained on an ongoing basis.
- Work with all of levels of employees on the Product on training key processes and procedures.
- Work well under pressure. This industry is driven by hot ticket items with time constraints to get products on the market.
- Occasional assistance with athlete signings may be required.
- Occasional travel may be required.
- Occasional assistance in the fulfillment center may be required.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position has supervisory functions at all levels.
Education and Experience Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- Broad Sports knowledge a must
- Superior communication skills on various levels. Must have articulate speech, proper business writing skills and ability to "listen" to client.
- Must have strong customer service skills and be able to comprehend management and league requests.
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills to deal with team members and clients effectively.
- Ability to consistently meet goals and high productivity levels on projects as set by yourself and/or Department Manager.
- Able to work with minimum supervision and capable of self-checking for completeness and accuracy of work produced.
- Be organized and detail oriented.
- Ability to keep on top of your own correspondence.
- Expert level mastery of Microsoft Applications and general PC skills (Word, Excel, Email).
- General Adobe Photoshop knowledge is a plus.
Physical Requirements
- Moderate physical effort required.
- Regularly required to sit or stand, reach and move about the facility.
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