Licensing Lead

MAJC✨; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 64,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) & stock plan

Career development

Paid time off

Parental leave

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Conagra Brands in Chicago, IL seeks a Licensing Lead to build, organize, and execute licensing workflows across assigned brands. You will support inbound and outbound licensed product opportunities, manage day-to-day partner relationships, coordinate cross-functional collaboration, and help develop scalable processes that improve execution quality and strengthen licensing strategies.

Reporting to our Director of Creative Strategy & Operations, you will identify trends, prepare agendas, track

Qualifications

• 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 behaviour.
• 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.

Skills

Licensing

Partnerships

Brand strategy

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Intellectual property

Marketing

Communications

Public relations

Business development

Trend monitoring

Contract compliance

Process development

Consumer behavior

Brand standards

Asset management

Launch planning

Influencer marketing

Social content

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Licensing Lead
Conagra
Chicago, IL
$64k to $95k
Full-time, On-site

About This Role

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.

A Taste Of Your 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.

Ingredients Required For Your Success

• 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 behaviour.
• Problem‑solving skills, sound judgment, and attention to detail.
• Written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Compensation

Pay Range: $64,000-$95,000

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
• Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work‑schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi‑Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal‑opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, colour, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.

Requirements

• Licensing
• Partnership management
• Brand marketing
• Project management
• Cross‑functional collaboration
• Stakeholder management
• Strategic planning
• Communication
• Trend analysis
• Contract compliance
• Process improvement
• Public relations
• Business development
• Attention to detail
• Problem-solving

Skills

• LicensingPartnershipsBrand StrategyProject ManagementCross-functional CollaborationIntellectual PropertyMarketingCommunicationsPublic RelationsBusiness DevelopmentTrend MonitoringContract ComplianceStakeholder ManagementProcess DevelopmentConsumer BehaviorBrand StandardsAsset ManagementLaunch PlanningInfluencer MarketingSocial Content