Licensing Partner

What will you work on?
The Licensing Partner will be responsible for driving the technical and administrative execution of the licensor approval process for global portfolios. Acting as the main liaison between licensors, GBT PD, and Design teams, this role ensures that all product, packaging, and marketing submissions follow established legal documentation and contractual terms. The position requires a high level of functional expertise in coordinating the product development lifecycle while maintaining daily communication and support for both internal and external partners. Responsibilities include managing PD timelines, mitigating risks through action plans, and facilitating cross-functional alignment to ensure the timely delivery of licensed products.

This is a remote position.

How will you create impact?

• Act as the primary point of contact and main liaison between our organization and licensors, providing regular communication and support.

• Coordinate and manage the end-to-end licensing process, ensuring all necessary approvals, legal documentation, and terms are followed.
• Obtain licensor approvals for product, packaging, and marketing submissions to ensure timely product delivery.
• Oversee product development of the licensor approval process with "licensor front of mind" to ensure brand integrity.
• Collaborate proactively with internal and external teams to fulfill product and packaging submissions in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Facilitate efficient meetings between licensors and cross-functional teams to align on milestones and deliverables.
• Manage trackers and provide regular status reports to ensure smooth communication and information flow for cross-functional teams.
• Help identify project risks and assist leadership in implementing action plans to manage and mitigate hurdles.
• Develop a fundamental understanding of PD timelines, key milestones, and the core KPIs to contribute effectively to the product development cycle.

How will you fit into the team?

• Professional and positive approach, self-motivated, with a strong drive and ability to build working relationships with some support.
• Utilizes communication skills appropriate for the audience, internal teams and/or external partners.
• Strong understanding of working with protectable intellectual properties and navigating existing constraints.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain a high level of accuracy in preparing and entering information.

What are your skills and experience?

• Previous experience in Licensing, Project Management, or Legal roles within the consumer goods industry.

• Proven service-minded and strong client service focus, flexible and open to new ways of doing business.
• A high level of discretion with prior experience handling confidential information.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain a high level of accuracy for submissions.
• Experience with Media Box (Consumer product approval system) is preferred.
• Proficient in MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project Management systems.

The anticipated pay range for candidates is $60,000 to $70,000 [per Annum]. The offered pay to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience within the job, years of experience within the required industry, education, etc. Spin Master Inc. is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.

This job posting is tied to an open vacancy.

What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Growth and Career Opportunities

• Flexible Work Hours

• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun

• Comprehensive Benefits

• Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at TAinquiries@spinmaster.com or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.