Licensing Lead

ConAgra Foods•Chicago, IL

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

Reporting to our Director of Creative Strategy & Operations, you will help build, organize, and execute Conagra’s licensing and partnership workflow across assigned brands. You will support inbound and outbound licensed product opportunities, manage day-to-day partner relationships, coordinate cross-functional collaboration, identify emerging trends and partnership opportunities, and help develop scalable processes that improve execution quality and strengthen licensing and partnership strategies.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
2+ years of experience in licensing, marketing partnerships, brand marketing, communications, public relations, or business development.
Project management skills with experience managing multiple priorities, timelines, approvals, and stakeholders.
Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives involving external partners, agencies, vendors or rights holders.
Commercial curiosity and cultural awareness with a demonstrated interest in trends, properties, partnerships, and consumer behavior.
Problem-solving skills, sound judgment, and attention to detail.
Written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

Facilitate licensing and partnership workstreams across assigned brands, partnering with Brand, Demand Science, Procurement, Legal, Research & Development, Culinary, Communications, agencies, and external partners.
Support the evaluation of inbound and outbound licensing opportunities, considering alignment with brand strategy, consumer relevance, execution feasibility, timing, commercial potential, and communications value.
Build and maintain licensing pipeline trackers, project plans, partner updates, decision logs, and milestone calendars to ensure visibility and progress across initiatives.
Coordinate materials, approvals, and stakeholder inputs required to move opportunities from exploration through launch and post-launch learning.
Serve as a primary day-to-day contact for licensing agencies, studios, intellectual property owners, agents, and other external partners supporting assigned projects.
Prepare agendas, meeting recaps, action items, and internal updates that keep stakeholders aligned and informed.
Monitor entertainment properties, cultural trends, creators, brands, and emerging partnership opportunities.
Connect brand teams, subject matter experts, and external partners to improve collaboration, speed, and execution quality.
Help create and maintain licensing processes, intake tools, templates, timelines, briefing materials, and decision frameworks.
Partner with Legal, Procurement, and Brand teams to ensure compliance with contract requirements, usage rights, review processes, and brand standards.
Maintain licensing documentation, partner materials, asset libraries, and project records to establish a clear source of truth.
Support marketing and communications planning for licensed products and partnerships, including launch activities, media extensions, influencer opportunities, social content, public relations initiatives, and partner amplification.
Review partner-facing and consumer-facing materials to ensure strategic alignment, brand consistency, accuracy, and proper approvals.
Track learnings, partner feedback, execution results, and improvement opportunities to strengthen future licensing and partnership efforts.
Prepare concise stakeholder updates highlighting project status, timelines, risks, decisions, and recommendations.
Share best practices, tools, templates, and examples that help build licensing capabilities across the organization.