Brand Protection Specialist
Share
Job Location:
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
Vacancies:
Job Summary
About the role:
Our brand is bigger than ever serving over 8 million customers with a global reach that spans 60 countries. To help us continue this growth we are looking for a Brand Protection Specialist to join our team in London. As the Brand Protection Analyst you will execute the global brand protection strategy as part of the Brand Protection team reporting to the Head of Brand Protection.
In this role you will play a vital part in protecting our intellectual property. You will work collaboratively with teams across NEXT including Legal Loss Prevention and Wholesale as well as external law enforcement and intelligence partners to combat IP abuse.
You will:
- Serve as a subject matter expert regarding counterfeit products and IP infringements
- Monitor online and offline channels (e-commerce platforms social media marketplaces retail distributors) for counterfeit products trademark infringements and brand misuse
- Coordinate enforcement actions such as takedown requests cease-and-desist letters and collaboration with external agencies or law enforcement prepare reports and recommendations
- Educate internal teams and external partners on brand protection guidelines and best practices.
- Support development of anti-counterfeiting technologies and authentication tools.
- Help drive continuous improvements to brand protection processes tools and monitoring technologies
- Assist in developing global and regional brand protection standards
- Maintain accurate records of research and analysis
- Address enquiries from Customer Service related to IP matters
- Undertake other reasonable tasks as directed and necessary
- Manage domain name registrations transfers and DNS related tasks
Communication
- The ability to communicate effectively at all levels passing on all relevant information needed to take appropriate action
- Ability to present complex information in a format that is appropriate to the audience
- Transparent honest accountable and easy to work with
About you:
- Experience in brand protection IP enforcement compliance fraud investigation
- Strong understanding of intellectual property laws e-commerce platforms digital brand enforcement tools and customs procedures
- Excellent analytical and investigative skills with strong attention to detail.
- Strong organizational time management problem-solving and communication skills
- Experience in delivering reports and presentations to a high standard
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with design merchandising compliance legal and supply chain teams and manage multiple cases simultaneously.
- Must have the ability to work alone without supervision and collaboratively within a team environment
- As an individual you are ambitious and are comfortable taking a high degree of responsibility in your work
- Capable of working under pressure adapts rapidly and positively to changing priorities and work demands
- Foreign language knowledge is highly desirable
#LI-CG1
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- CCTV
- Loss Prevention
- Communication skills
- Military Experience
- Law Enforcement
- Tribal Law
- Analysis Skills
- Case Management
- Security
- Cordova
- Social Work
- Writing Skills
About Company
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now po ... View more
