IP Commercial Partnerships Manager

Job Description

Are you ready to play a pivotal role in driving commercial planning in collaboration with our IP partners? This position is essential to aligning our strategic priorities with the audience objectives of the LEGO Group, ensuring that our partnerships thrive and resonate with our community. 

If you're passionate about fostering innovative collaborations and making a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!

Core Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the annual integrated commercial planning process, steering the organization towards opportunities for incremental growth.

• Use market research and available data to provide recommendations for focus markets.

• Collaborate with IP Partners, the Inbound Licensing team, and Product Groups to identify strategic opportunities that align with the LEGO Group’s audience objectives and priorities, informing joint marketing plans.

• Identify joint opportunities in Owned, Earned and Shared Marketing channels. Liaise with relevant internal teams to facilitate cohesive and synergistic activations and test & learn programs that capitalize on partnership opportunities.

• Contribute to local deployment meetings to equip local marketing teams with pertinent insights. Facilitate partner-focused sessions as necessary.

• Work together with Consumer Group teams, bringing Partner level inputs and insights to enhance Go-To-Market considerations for relevant campaigns.

• Support Partner facing reporting with internally aligned data-driven storyline and actionable insights.

• Support top-to-top meetings and global business reviews with commercial insights, knowledge of local plans in the key markets – past and forward looking.

Play your part in our team succeeding

IP commercial partnerships team is driving business planning across the LEGO Group's key partners, making sure that we translate opportunities into mutual value creation. It is responsible for strengthening internal commercial dialogue across IP partnerships and ensuring that IP activation plans are rooted into global priorities and audiences objectives. 

Do you have what it takes?

• Proven experience in partnership management or brand marketing.

• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex strategic planning and apply insights to day-to-day operations of partnership activations.

• Excellent ability to organize and prioritize tasks. Competency in managing multiple projects with various cross-functional teams.

• Effective communicator and collaborator with an understanding of how to translate partnership strategies into actionable activities.

• An understanding of the landscape of commercial partnerships, negotiations, and activations. 

• Fluent spoken and written English language.

Nice to Have:

• Industry-specific experience related to the LEGO Group's key IP partners.

• Exposure to cross-market coordination and international business practices, a plus!

Additional details on this position

• Our workplace enables our LEGO® colleagues to be and do their best at work. Introducing a flexible way of working through a hybrid working model is a great example of how we live up to our ambition. This 3 day in the office hybrid working model will exemplify our People Promise by embracing the different life situations of our colleagues.

• No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

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Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $107,885.00 - $161,827.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

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 are some of what to 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 you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

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

Your 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.

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

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.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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