Manager Brand Partnerships Photonics & Optics (m/f/x)

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The Role

ZEISS, a leading supplier of optical and optoelectronic technologies, is bundling units outside the divisions in the Photonics & Optics strategic business unit that offer customers a wide range of optical and photonic technologies in highly specialized markets around the world: mobile imaging, hunting & nature, cinematography, microoptics, spectroscopy, planetariums and simulation projection solutions.

Your role
  • Onboard new strategic brand partnerships by facilitating brand guidelines and conduct training sessions to ensure partners understand and adhere to ZEISS standards.

  • Oversee technical integration, ensure brand quality and secure brand compliance including approvals (mainly co-marketing key assets, core messaging), royalty cash flow management, and procurement integration programs, with hands-on involvemen

  • Actively support interactions with licensing agencies, ensuring timely and effective communication.

  • Develop and produce compelling sales materials tailored to specific partner needs.

  • Develop and refine processes for seamless integration into licensing operations, actively implementing these processes.

  • Identify and implement solutions, potentially leveraging software or AI, to optimize strategic partnership development processes and collaboration workstreams, ensuring operational efficiency.

Your profile
  • Degree in business development, marketing, brand management, business psychology or similar Berufserfahrung

  • Several years of proven experience in strategic partnership management or licensing business, preferably within the consumer electronics goods industry or similar environment

  • Experience in project management. Ability to coordinate and incubate complex projects.

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of managing relationships with licensee partners and different business units within the Group.

  • Ability to develop innovative and out-of-the-box approaches adapting to partners and markets.

  • Fluent in English, German and Chinese as a bonus.

  • Ability to travel up to 5-10%.

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Christian Hohaus

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The Company
HQ: Oberkochen
20,567 Employees

What We Do

ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. In the previous fiscal year, the ZEISS Group generated annual revenue totaling 10 billion euros in its four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology and Consumer Markets (status: 30 September 2023). With around 43,000 employees, ZEISS is active globally in almost 50 countries with around 30 production sites, 60 sales and service companies and 27 research and development facilities (status: 30 September 2023). Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. The Carl Zeiss Foundation, one of the largest foundations in Germany committed to the promotion of science, is the sole owner of the holding company, Carl Zeiss AG. Data privacy: www.zeiss.com/data-protection Imprint: http://zeiss.com/publisher This is ZEISS's official LinkedIn account. It follows the ZEISS Netiquette: www.zeiss.com/netiquette

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