Licensing Coordinator - The Jel Sert Company

For nearly a century, The Jel Sert Company has focused on creating high-quality, high-value foods and beverages that help bring people together. Jel Sert is proud of being awarded the Great Place to Work certification for multiple years along with making Fortune's 2024 Great Place to Work in Chicago and Great Place to Work in Manufacturing and Production. We are currently looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as a LICENSING COORDINATOR. If you are looking for a work environment that encourages personal growth, responsibility, and a shared vision for creating incredible products that help create lasting memories, then Jel Sert wants you!

The LICENSING COORDINATOR supports the licensing team in all day-to-day functions and acts as a key liaison cross functionally and externally. Key functions with the licensing coordinator include commercialization of licensed products, coordinating w/ marketing coordinator to develop mockups on new licensed product concepts, and more. This role is important in ensuring the success of the licensing department.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Contribute to the marketing and company’s mission by completing tasks and projects as assigned by Licensing team.
• Commercialization Management: fill in requests and briefs, ensure dates/tasks deadlines/product info is inputted accurately into Workfront, maintain at least 1-2x a week for weekly Marketing status calls.
• Artwork development process: Kickoff with designers, provide feedback, and lead internal proof routing and supplier proof routing.
• Manage packaging updates for existing items requiring updated claims/NFP/ingredients.
• Send product sample requests for licensors.
• Manage requests from sales including new item info, mockups and tasting sample request forms
• Manage all department invoices with Account Payable team by coding invoices and collecting signatures.
• Support department budget efforts with invoice tracking.
• Gather and upload creative assets required to support website/STG Store/Asset Management

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Two year of office experience required within a Marketing environment preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or related field preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively and professionally communicate across functional groups.
• Strong interpersonal skills, approachable, positive and flexible. Must be able to work interactively and proactively with internal and external parties at all levels.
• Resourceful and creative problem solver.
• Strong organizational, time management, detail orientation, and problem solving skills with the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Must be a self-starter and independent thinker with the ability to quickly react to situations.
• Demonstrate the ability to work on multiple tasks and/or projects at once with minimal assistance within a fast paced results-driven environment.
• Proficient with MS Office, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU - BENEFITS

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance
• 401(K ) & ROTH Plan with Company Match
• Life Insurance
• Supplemental Insurance
• Paid Time Off plus Paid Holidays
• Employee Assistance Program with comprehensive emotional, financial, physical, and social well-being programs.
• Continuous learning opportunities through various platforms and resources.

PERKS OF WORKING AT JEL SERT!

• Training and Career Development Opportunities
• Referral Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Discounts on our Delicious Products
• Health Club Member Reimbursement
• Interactive Company Culture with Engagement Activities
• Employee Service Awards
• Company Philanthropy
• Close to the Police Station, Metra Station and West Chicago Park District

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or assembly at distances close to the eyes.
• The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of structures.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Office environment with up to 10% travel requirements to tradeshows and other marketing events.

• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

ACCOUNTABILITIES CHECKLIST

Trade Show/ Event accuracy and execution, Timeliness for reacting to requests, Timeliness for updating monthly reports

FOOD SAFETY and QUALITY RESPONSIBILITIES

Follow applicable procedures and work instructions.

Back up Redundant

IMPACT ON JEL SERT SUCCESS

This position helps the Jel Sert Licensing team function as an effective resource for the company.