Senior Licensing Manager - 1 Year Contract

Job Description

Would you like to be part of a global team driving the LEGO portfolio's Inbound entertainment Licensing partnerships.

Come with your amazing Licensing industry experience to support the LEGO Group to continue reaching more children by bringing play to life through their most loved passions and brands!

This is a 1 year temp assignment. No relocation is provided for this role.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Inbound Licensing team 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 diversity of consumers globally. We pride ourselves in nurturing best in class relationships with our brand partners.

Core Responsibilities:

• Build and nurture meaningful partnerships with key inbound licensing partners, ensuring exceptional collaboration at every touchpoint. Create strong internal and external networks that drive shared success and long-term relationships.

• Apply commercial and marketing expertise to unlock the full potential of each partnership-from portfolio development to marketing execution. Identify new opportunities across partner ecosystems to bring fans closer to the LEGO brand.

• Lead negotiations and manage contracts with care and precision. Secure mutually beneficial terms, guide complex deals through completion, and deliver results with accuracy and attention to detail.

• Stay curious and informed about emerging and trending IPs. Use your insight, data literacy, and instinct to guide the business toward the most relevant opportunities in entertainment, gaming, and consumer culture.

• Shape the future of our partnerships. Develop and implement category strategies and roadmaps grounded in industry knowledge, analytical thinking, and a clear understanding of our audiences.

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive experience in the toy, entertainment, or licensing industry in a global role. (Experience across entertainment franchises preferable)

• Proven success building and managing partnerships-you collaborate with ease, negotiate with confidence, and create strong relationships that deliver mutual value.

• Commercially minded and creatively driven, with experience in marketing, buying, or other commercial functions. You enjoy turning insights into opportunities.

• A clear and engaging communicator, skilled at connecting with people across levels, cultures, and teams.

• Curious and inventive problem solver who thrives on innovation and challenges the status quo to find better ways of working.

• Highly organized and detail-focused, able to balance multiple priorities and move projects forward in a dynamic environment.

• Collaborative and self-motivated-you bring positive energy to a team and work independently with confidence.

• Open to travel when needed to meet partners and strengthen relationships.

What are you waiting for? Apply now!

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.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeksto encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

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.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children's Rights.

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