Rights Executive - 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Rights Executive - 12 month Fixed Term Contract
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JOB DETAILS
JOB BAND: C
CONTRACT TYPE: 12 month Fixed-term Contract Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios - Distribution Global Operations
LOCATION: Television Centre London Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 28000 - 32000 plus London Weighting Allowance of 5319 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
WE ARE BBC STUDIOS
A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the worlds most sought-after TV audio and digital content.
Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful entertaining and inspiring stories for people all around the world.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Rights Executive is responsible for supervising and supporting a team of Rights Coordinators who manage acquisitions and restrictions data in the BBC Studios rights management system. The role includes acting as a Subject Matter Expert for rights and restrictions data managing rights reporting and data enhancement tasks indentifying process improvements and process changes and building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders across the business
WHY JOIN THE TEAM
The Rights Management team sits within the Global Operations Content & Rights Acquistions department. The team is responsible for the accurate consistent and timely interpretation and management of acquisition / distribution rights (rights in) and rights restrictions data across the BBC Studios portfolio. It is also responsible for servicing rights and cost queries from Sales and other teams to ensure titles are marketed / sold in the knowledge of an accurate rights position.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
- Supervises the Rights Coordinators; provides daily line management support advice and training; plans team development and delivers new training; performs appraisals and sets objectives; monitors workloads volumes and responses in line with expected turnaround times.
- Manages content rights and restrictions info in systems including resolving any rights conflicts between contractual data/deals; understands the data flow and upstream/downstream dependencies points of integration and data/field usage.
- Collaborates with the Rights Manager in producing and maintaining training documentation detailing rules and data conventions to best support the Rights Coordinators (and future new starters to the team) in ensuring data accuracy and integrity
- Acts as a point of escalation/expertise for complex rights issues/queries non-standard contract set-up and other exceptional rights management processes required by BBC Studios businesses.
- Approves contract summaries and acquisition deal data entered in the rights management system (by the Rights Coordinators) to ensure rights and restrictions information is accurately defined/set-up to support end-to-end processes and made available to Sales in a timely manner.
- Assists the Rights Manager in identifying and defining data system and process improvements and efficiencies; champions change to ensure the team and systems provide appropriate and accurate rights data to support BBC Studios businesses.
- Manages BBC Studios portfolio by identifying expiring distribution rights contributor rights and other restrictions impacting exploitation; proactively coordinates the production of reports and supplies this supporting information to inform impacted business areas.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- Administrative and data management experience
- Reporting and data analysis experience preferably in a media and/or content environment is essential
- Data governance and Data migration experience
- Identifying process improvements and change experience
- Customer Service experience training end users on technology systems and/or process change
- Reporting and data analysis experience preferably in a media and/or content environment is essential
DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:
- Understanding of the BBC Studios content acquisition process.
- Experience of working with contractual agreements - especially those relating to distribution / intellectual property rights.
- Working with IT during system developments and working in an agile environment .
- A detailed understanding of the Rightsline content data structure and rights model and how and where the data interfaces.
- Management experience desirable not essential.
If you can bring some of these skills and experience along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.
NEXT STEPS
We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note: If you were to be offered this role the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
