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Licensing Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Experience managing licensing partnerships, including price negotiations and contract management
  • Ability to deliver and track financial KPIs (volume, net revenue, gross margin) and identify strategic growth opportunities with Licensing strategy, brand marketing and business units
  • Experience building product portfolios through innovation, brand extensions and white space market entry
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration with internal functions (equity, legal, CSL, quality, tax) and external partners (marketing, sales, procurement) in a fast-growing, entrepreneurial environment

Requirements:

  • Managing key existing licensing partners (support price negotiations, contract management)
  • Delivering the agreed financial KPIs from a volume, net revenue and gross margin perspective, identifying and aligning strategic growth opportunities with Licensing strategy, brand marketing and Business Units
  • Building the 'Cakes' portfolio with product innovation, brand extensions and white space market entry to create new consumption occasions for MDLZ brands
  • Coordinating the marketing plans development (NPDs, line extensions, communication) and implementing growth initiatives in local markets with licensing partners

Job description

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

The Global Licensing team is on a limitless journey to drive share, ubiquity & penetration for our MDLZ global & local brands in adjacent categories (e.g. ice creams, chilled desserts & yoghurt, milk drinks and packaged cakes). Global licensing is a >$300MM NR business, which translates to >3 billion pack sold worldwide and has been growing aggressively in the past few years.

The Licensing Manager Ambient is tasked to aggressively grow the 'Cakes' licensing business by:

  • Managing key existing licensing partners (support price negotiations, contract management).
  • Delivering the agreed financial AC KPIs from a volume, net revenue & gross margin perspective, identifying and aligning strategic growth opportunities with Licensing strategy, brand marketing and Business Units.
  • Building the 'Cakes' portfolio with product innovation, brand extensions and white space market entry to create new consumption occasions for MDLZ brands.
  • Coordinating the marketing plans development (NPDs, Line Extensions, Communication) as well as implementing growth initiatives in local markets with licensing partners.

Due to the size of the licensing team, this role offers a large variety of responsibilities with great autonomy in a fast-growing & entrepreneurial environment, working with various teams both internally (equity, legal, CS&L, quality, tax) & externally (marketing, sales, procurement).

Key areas of responsibility:

  • Business KPIs
  • Support Strategic Planning (SP) & Annual Contract (AC)
  • Idea to Market (I2M)
  • Marketing & Equity
  • Pricing Management
  • Product and Packaging Quality Initiatives
  • Support Contract Negotiation
  • Contract Management

If there is an entrepreneur in you, then you will relish this experience…

  • by managing all aspects of a business,
  • working with colleagues from all functions and external stakeholders,
  • interacting with senior management internally and externally,
  • leaving an impact that people will remember long after you have moved onto your next role,

Apply for this unique job opportunity and get excited about it the same way as we are!

Relocation Support Available?

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

Our people make all the difference in our succes

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

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Regular

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