Kc Caps/Head Start Licensed Products Work Values

Daily Duties at Kc Caps/Head Start Licensed Products:

Product/Brand Development: Conceived original designs for headwear, bags, towels, footwear, jackets, wallets, bandanas, ice chests, and many other seasonal accessories. Sourcing and Factory Interaction: Sourced raw materials, applications, prints, molds, and fabrications overseas. Traveled to factories and open fabric markets overseas on a bi-yearly basis to establish criteria for factories to follow for certain accounts or product lines. Handled all factory audits for compliance. Account Management: Worked closely with developing exclusive custom branded programs for a variety of cliental. Worked with many industry leaders such as: Fashion retailers (Aeropostale, American Eagle, Abercrombie), Action sports (Yamaha, Descente Ski, Body Glove, and several other channels of distribution. Ability to present and interpret a variety of tech packs from concept to prototype stage. Sales, Marketing and Licensing: Key company representative for the entire licensed product programs. This included negotiating contracts in areas that include: Entertainment licensing, (Spiderman, Survivor, Lord of the Rings, Pokemon, Godzilla, Southpark, Peanuts, The Simpsons, and Looney Tunes), Sports licensing (NASCAR, NCAA, 1996-2008 Olympics), Brand licensing (Chevrolet, Skechers, Budweiser, and Corona) and Cross-licenses (Looney Tunes/NHL/NCAA). Sales Management and Art Direction: Directly managed a sales staff as large as 144 independent sales representatives, 6 product managers, 4 merchandisers, and an in house art design staff of 6 as well as several freelance artists. Coordinated and presented all company pitches for major retail account and all major studio pitches. Market and Visual Enhancement: Complete implementation of sales, marketing and media plans. Designed complete package of P.O.P, print and trade advertising, press releases, and two internet web sites (www.kcheadwear.com and www.headstartcaps.com) including copywriting and content. Extremely computer literate in several platforms.

What they like about Kc Caps/Head Start Licensed Products:

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Tags

Product, Design, Sourcing, Headwear, Bags, Merchandising, Presentation, Development, Licensed Products, Licensing, Accessories, Baseball Caps, Marketing, Trade shows

Skills

Brainstorming, Product Development, Sourcing, Design, Production, Headwear, Merchandising, Team work, Art Direction, Presentation

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