Senior Licensing Manager – Adults Portfolio

Come and join one of the world's most loved brands and play a key role in shaping the future of the LEGO Adults portfolio through iconic licensing partnerships. Use your licensing expertise in a role where you'll collaborate with globally recognised brands and intellectual properties to create exciting partnerships that inspire adult builders around the world!

We're pleased to offer our hybrid working arrangement, Best of Both, with three days per week in our London office and two days working from home. Please note that relocation support is not available for this role.

• Lead Partnerships – Build and cultivate trusted relationships with licensors, brands, and intellectual property partners, acting as the primary point of contact throughout the partnership lifecycle and ensuring long-term, successful collaborations.
• Shape & Grow the Portfolio – Partner closely with Design, Marketing, Brand, and Commercial teams to develop partnership strategies, identify and secure new licensing opportunities, grow a diverse pipeline of brands and IPs using consumer insights, market trends, and commercial opportunities.
• Lead Commercial Negotiations – Lead negotiations, contract execution, and ongoing partnership management, securing commercially successful agreements while balancing business objectives, critical timelines, and partner needs.
• Influence & Collaborate Across the Business – Build alignment across Product, Marketing, Creative, Local Markets, Finance, Legal, and senior leadership, influencing decision-making and ensuring the successful delivery of partnerships.
• Drive Operational Excellence – Establish effective processes, onboarding, and partnership frameworks while proactively resolving complex challenges, mitigating risk, and ensuring contractual, operational, and brand compliance.

• Relevant professional experience in licensing across a diverse array of brands and partnerships.
• Demonstrated negotiation capability and contract proficiency.
• Strong commercial acumen and numerical skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• Highly organised, structured, and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively.
• A strategic forward-thinking approach with the confidence to challenge constructively.
• Clear and impactful written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across functions and seniority levels.
• A commercially minded professional experienced in managing a diverse portfolio across multiple brands and partnerships while delivering strong business outcomes.

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.

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 seeks to 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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