Licensing Lead

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

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.

• Facilitate licensing and partnership work streams 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.

• 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.

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.

• Health:
  Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental…