Senior Brand Licensing Manager

Come and apply your collaboration skills, in combination with your product and marketing knowledge, to optimize key brand partnerships across the LEGO portfolio. Utilize your understanding of the licensing industry, coupled with your experience across lifestyle, sports or fashion brands to help deliver our commercial vision. Please note: No relocation assistance is offered for this position. Core Responsibilities

• Lead the partner relationship on key and strategic brand collaborations, routed in our LEGO portfolio (inbound licensing), fashion & footwear (outbound licensing), together with brand and marketing activations, with extensions into other areas which could include gaming and entertainment content.
• Drive excellence in collaboration cross functionally. Expertly network both internally, and externally with partners, with the ability and confidence to engage with all levels, securing outstanding best in class relationships at every touch point across our business.
• Drive partnership engagement and meeting cadence, applying strong leadership, organization and presentation skills to drive and lead key meetings across the partnerships, securing optimal outcomes.
• Manage deployment of systems and processes to ensure efficiencies across the partnership, delivering on time execution and approvals through meticulous project management.
• Utilize your commercial acumen to effectively leverage partnerships and maximize their contribution to the strategic agenda, ranging from enabling optimal portfolio development through to marketing execution.
• Play a lead role in collaboration with product, marketing and brand leads, in setting and implementing the partnership map.
• Be a creative problem solver, with the ability to jump into a broad variety of challenges, engaging collaborators and navigating complexity to find solutions driving mutual value.
• Excellent negotiation skills and contract proficiency, in order to secure best-in-class terms and mutual value creation, together with overseeing the execution of contracts in partnership with a broad stakeholder network. Numerate and confident carrying complex deals through to completion.
Play your part in our team succeeding We bring a range of awesome brands and IPs into the LEGO portfolio, in order to further enhance the reach and relevancy of the LEGO Brand with a diversity of consumers globally. We pride ourselves in nurturing best-in-class relationships with our brand partners.


• Extensive professional experience (ideally Retail and/or licensing) in a global role working across toys, lifestyle, sports and/ or fashion brands.
• Experience navigating complexity with high level of multi-tasking.
• Creative problem solver. Highly innovative and not afraid to challenge the status quo.
• Proficient negotiation and communication skills, both written and verbal (English proficiency).
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration.
• Analytical, highly organized, and meticulous.
• Ability to travel approximately once a month.
  
  The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children's Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
  
  Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
What's in it for you? Here is what you can expect: Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times. Insurances - All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind. Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity. Colleague Discount - We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount. Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme. Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process. Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.