Commercial, Rights & Bus Affairs Assistant

BBC Group and Public Services; London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading content studio where creativity meets opportunity! As a Rights Coordinator, you will play a crucial role in managing rights and restrictions data, ensuring accuracy and compliance across BBC Studios' portfolio. Your expertise will support the acquisition and distribution of intellectual property, maximizing audience value and commercial return. This hybrid role offers a balance of office and home working, along with an inclusive culture that values diversity. With a competitive salary and a commitment to your professional growth, this is your chance to contribute to a globally recognized brand while enjoying a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Parental leave

26 days holiday

Defined pension scheme

Discounted dental and health care

Employee Assistance Program

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of rights and restrictions information.
• Ability to manage and interpret data efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Manage rights data and ensure accurate records in the system.
• Support sales teams with rights clearance and availability queries.

Skills

Data interpretation

Rights management

Communication skills

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Rights management system

Spreadsheet software

Job description

Legal & Rights Management

Permanent - Full Time

London, GB, W12 7FA

Job Closing Date: 18/02/2025

THE ROLE

BBC Studios is a world-renowned content studio and channels & streaming business, powered by British creativity, with a reach that touches audiences in every corner of the globe.

We work with outstanding creative talent who are responsible for platform-defining shows from Strictly Come Dancing to Bluey, Eastenders, Prehistoric Planet and Planet Earth III. The range and quality of our content is unsurpassed, creating critical and commercial successes and global phenomena. From BAFTAs to RTS Awards, BBC Studios is Britain’s most awarded production company and the only producer with three of the top ten shows on IMDB; we’re the home of bbc.com, the widest-read English language news website in the world; and the UK’s largest distributor of British content.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Rights Management Team is responsible for managing acquisition / distribution (rights in) and rights restrictions data across the BBC Studios portfolio. It is also responsible for servicing rights and contributor cost queries from Sales and other teams to ensure titles are marketed / sold in the knowledge of an accurate rights position.
Specifically, the Rights Coordinator is responsible for the accurate, consistent and timely interpretation and management of acquisitions and restrictions data on the BBC Studios rights management system, to meet business requirements.

This role will support BBC Studios Distribution in acquiring, creating and distributing Intellectual Property to maximise audience value and commercial return in a digital, global and commercial environment by:

• Providing excellent rights and restrictions data administration and guidance.
• Providing excellent business support and coordination.
• Using systems and processes efficiently and effectively.
• Building and maintaining strong, collaborative working relationships.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE?

KEY CRITERIA:

• Interprets rights and restrictions information from distribution agreements and associated documents / systems, and enters data into the BBC Studios rights management system. Ensures the database accurately reflects rights positions and supports end-to-end content management processes by monitoring and updating rights information and triggering event-based dates.
• Provides a contributor rights clearance cost-checking service for sales teams in response to availability queries run in the BBC Studios rights management system.
• Provides ad-hoc rights availability information in the form of written communication, face-to-face meetings and / or spreadsheet reports for individual requests, events and special projects.
• Proactively manages the BBC Studios portfolio of rights by identifying expiring acquisitions and restrictions impacting exploitation; resolving data conflicts; producing reports and supporting information for the Rights Executive to distribute to impacted business areas.
• With the Rights Executive, builds and maintains relationships with all rights stakeholders in the Business to ensure rights data is best in class and supports content management to prevent BBC Studios commercial activity resulting in legal or reputational harm.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA:

• An understanding of content acquisition and contributor intellectual property rights.
• Knowledge of internal and external rights systems and sources of information, an understanding of the rights model, and how the data is used is helpful but will be taught.
• An understanding of media landscape is desirable.

LIFE AT BBC STUDIOS

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

The BBC is committed to building a culturally diverse workforce, that represents the audiences we serve, and encourages applications from candidates from any background, especially people from diverse communities.

Equity of opportunity is important to us, and we endeavour to make our processes equal, fair and meritocratic for everybody. More information on our D&I plan can be found here. BBC Studios puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do both onscreen and off screen, including delivering against the BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets. More information on sustainability at BBC Studios can be found here.

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION

Job Reference: 20553
Band: B
Salary: £24,800 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. The role is London based, include “London weighting at £5319”.

Location: London tvc, (this is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM WORKING AT BBC STUDIOS?

• We offer a competitive salary package.
• Flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance.
• Parental leave for new parents, regardless of gender, of up to a year with 18 weeks fully paid.
• 26 days holiday (plus an additional day which is a Corporation Day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days.
• A defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Excellent career progression – access to courses, webinars, workshops and the opportunity to work in different areas of the organisation.

REASONABLE ADJUSTMENTS

We are proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please contact us on [e-mail]

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.