Summer Buckman Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

Interdepartmental/Executive Management- Departmental cohesiveness: Maintain a harmonious workflow between all departments within the entire company and making sure to empower all employees.- Resolve departmental issues- Programs o Cost savings o Performance improvements o Policy development- Policy and procedure implementation and enforcement- Upchain KPI monitoring and reporting- Assist CEO in all areas of corporation.- Support the CEO in departmental leadership- New Project/procedure delegation cross departmentallyHuman Resources- Manage the payroll, HR software and employee compliance- Employee Manual (yearly upkeep/update)- Personnel Files- Hiring o Onboarding/Offboarding & Leave Paperwork & Arrangements o Portal Set Up o Compliance o Procedures- Corporate Compliance o OSHA o Covid o Management training o Federal/ California/ Ohio/ Florida/ Arkansas- Yearly Projects o 401k o Benefits o Pay structures, incentive program initiation o Additional Benefits/employee perksLegal, Insurance, Compliance and Licensing/Contracts- Research, contact & follow up on all existing and new potential licensees, manage all relationships- Licensing contract negotiations o Deal Memo o Long Form- Compliance (trademarks, China recordals etc.)- Product liability, D&O, EPL, recall, building and all other insurance projects- Legal correspondence including, contracts, trademark, business and all othersOther Responsibilities- Assist CEO in outside business ventures as requested - Provide licensing, legal and operational support to sister company

San Diego, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Solely Managed the entire creative product development and approval process for all submissions in the United States with a portfolio of 80+ licensees at any given time.• Oversaw product development for all brands for every category including toys, apparel, publishing, gaming, e-com, home goods, electronics, etc.• Was brand champion and expert on all brand assets, property style guides and kept up to date with all appropriate industry trades and competitive markets.• Reviewed all product submissions to make sure that there was valid contract for the property and submitted concept was within their grant of rights.• Effectively communicated creative comments to licensees, answered questions, managed licensees' expectations and project time lines.• Worked alongside various work groups to direct the licensee in the creation of their initial product lines, determining line extensions of original products, and focused in on the development of products from conception to production.• Supplied licensees with all necessary program assets by working with creative, legal, marketing and other divisions to collect and distribute these items.• Managed product approvals system and contract. Kept system up to date and made sure approvals were responded to within contractual timelines.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Identified, developed, and converted business opportunities to incrementally grow/sustain revenue across multiple business units including Toys, Consumer Electronics, Gaming and Pet licensing. • Continuous researching of competitive markets for specific product categories, including • Designed all sales presentations for both retail and licensee pitch deck utilizing PowerPoint.• Launched and developed new licensing business ventures.• Worked with Design and Marketing teams to create and develop tools to communicate and monitor the brand vision to licensees in a timely manner in an effort to build one cohesive brand image.• Worked closely with both Licensee Designers and Company Designers; proposed final approval on designs to ensure they reflect current trends and product integrity of the brands.• Executed negotiations pertaining to licenses, cross-license agreements and joint developments.• Provided forecasting and reporting on sales across categories and licensees including long range planning.

San Diego, Ca

• Worked as point person with licensors including Playstation, Rovio, Striker, Disney, Nickelodeon, Universal, Hasbro, Sony, and WWE to broker deals and find new and fun properties! • Negotiated terms for licensing agreements and executed all contracts, guarantees and product approvals for all licensed products.• Communicated on a regular basis with all sales rep groups to ensure product knowledge, get forecasts/status from current accounts and set up all new customers depending on their requirements.• Directly managed sales assistants and ensured their sales goals were exceeded.• Administrator at all licensing shows. Conducted meetings and interviews with media reps and all current and perspective licensors to search out good property matches for our current and developing products.• Conducted all sales meetings for New York Toy Fair, Dallas Fall Toy Preview, CES and ASD with retailers.• Organized all shows from start to finish (New York, Hong Kong & Dallas Toy Fairs, Licensing Show New York, CES, National Hardware Show and ASD in Las Vegas). Handled company’s booth arrangements, shipping, design, schedules, sales meetings, and assembly of booth.• Liaised with our overseas offices on a daily basis to ensure all FOB orders and guidelines were strictly followed and ship dates met.

Greater San Diego Area

• Managed our PR Company through initiatives that included focused trade media outreach efforts and consumer events, television and publication media outreach and sampling programs.• Worked as point person with licensors including Microsoft, Marvel, Universal, Boeing, World Industries and Chuck E. Cheese to help cross promote our brands with their licensed properties.• Continuous travel for shows and meetings with retailers; Organized all shows from start to finish; Dallas Toy Fairs, Licensing Show New York and CES Las Vegas). Handled company's booth arrangements, shipping, design, schedules, sales, and assembly of booth.• Administrator at all licensing shows. Conducted meetings and interviews with media reps and all current and perspective licensors to search out good property matches for our current and developing products.• Negotiated terms, Drew up licensing agreements and executed all contracts, guarantees, product approvals, quarterly reports and payments for all licensed products.• Continued all Office Manager responsibilities (see below).

Greater San Diego Area

• Managed office employees including customer service, reception, and project managers.• Conducted interviews, quarterly reviews, hiring, firing, and training of all employees.• Set up health insurance, product liability insurance, ran semi-monthly payroll through ADP and complied with all government regulations for small business.• Formulated all sales representative's quarterly sales reports and payments.• Managed day to day office and warehouse operations including customer service problems, truck shipments, RGA log and handled all large office equipment purchases.• Initiated all wire transfers, paid all vendors and set up monthly office budget for Hong Kong.• Spearheaded entire company move.

Poway, Ca