Project Administrator - Inventor Relations

Job Description
The Opportunity:
The Inventor Relations team, as Mattel's outward-facing representatives, plays a crucial role in building external strategic partnerships to enhance connections with the toy and game inventor community. Our mission is to seek out innovation. As a Project Administrator, you will be an essential part of this team, facilitating the harvesting and shepherding of exterior submissions to fuel Mattel's global innovation pipeline. Your role will be instrumental in supporting our El Segundo Campus.
What Your Impact Will Be:
Provide support to internal design teams and external clients
Track items across various campuses, including FP, Mega, and Mattel
Onboard and vet incoming inventors for both FP and Mattel to keep the external pipeline active and fresh
Report Management- track hold budgets, licensing agreements, model submissions, inventor portal updates, for Mattel and FP products
Run reports and collect data on forecasts, volume quotas, submission counts, etc.
Maintain contact and banking info weekly, as well as process and track check payments
Shipping, receiving, and tracking of physical products from inventors
Partner with meeting planning and trade show services for more extensive Inventor and Innovation events like Toy Fair and MCONN to keep track of deadlines for deliverables and manage event coordination
Archive licensed products to ensure we have a record of our history
Assist with Innovation and Ideation Sprints for Innovation Programs
Manage external innovation subscriptions with external partners like Women in Toys, Mojo Nation, etc.
Support team with calendar scheduling, booking travel, and other departmental duties.