Licensing Clerk jobs in Bolingbrook, IL

or nearly a century, The Jel Sert Company has focused on creating high-quality, high-value foods and beverages that help bring people together. In 2022, Jel Sert was certified as a Great Place to Work! We are currently looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as a Licensing Intern. If you are looking for a Great Place to Work, with 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 Jel Sert Licensing Team is looking for a creative and pop-culture connected LICENSING INTERN to join our team this summer. The ideal candidate will be curious to learn more about licensing and promotional partnership planning. Reporting to our VP Licensing & Partnerships, this position will assist with promotional planning, sampling programs, licensing product development, and content development for the website and social platforms.

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

• Support promotional activation and licensing development efforts
• Maintain and organize content/creative assets for licensed products on website, asset management, and other digital channels
• Analyze social trends to identify opportunities for our licensed brands
• Stay up to date on the latest pop culture, social media and digital marketing trends and apply them to our portfolio of licensed brands
• In partnership w/ social media team, assist in researching influencer partners for licensed brands. Moderate influencer and user-created content and identify opportunities to repurpose content across our owned channels for licensed brands
• Send product sample requests for licensors
• Manage requests from sales including new item info, mockups and tasting sample request forms
• Commercialization Support: As needed, 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.

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

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Candidate needs to be working towards or currently pursuing a degree or a recent graduate with a degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or relevant experience.
• Strong competency and experience with using social media, personally and professionally.
• Must have exceptional knowledge of the English language, with a strong grasp of grammar, spelling and proficient in copywriting, proofreading, and critiquing.
• General knowledge of image and video formats considered a plus.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks/projects. Able to work on multiple projects at the same time, each with a different deadline.
• Willing to take initiative and to innovate.
• Strong creative, organizational, problem-solving and time-management skills.
• Team Player with strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate on projects with constructive feedback.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

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

• 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.
• 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; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection.
• The worker is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Office environment and local travel up to 10%

• Subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes and to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather as activities occur inside and outside.
• Subject to vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities or whole body.

ACCOUNTABILITIES CHECKLIST

Planning

Prioritizes and schedule tasks in order to provide key management information in an efficient manner.

Checks the quality and timeliness of own work.

FOOD SAFETY and QUALITY RESPONSIBILITIES

Follow applicable procedures and work instructions.

IMPACT ON JEL SERT SUCCESS

This job is essential in strengthening our brands' equities and supporting the future growth of our brands.