Digital Rights Executive - Content Licensing

Deaf Unity; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

ITV is seeking a proactive Rights Executive - Digital to manage rights data for a broad catalogue of television programmes and formats. You will input and maintain rights information, support licensing, and work with internal teams to provide clear, timely cost data for exploitation.

Reporting into the Rights Management lead, you will build strong stakeholder relationships, navigate complex agreements, and help develop next-generation rights systems and processes while occasionally travelling

Qualifications

• Experience working within a television rights, digital and social media exploitation.
• Commercial awareness within the digital and social media space.
• Accuracy and an eye for detail.
• Strong literacy, numeracy and IT skills.
• Brand protection.
• Driven and passionate about TV, new platforms, and emerging media.
• Strong organisational and information management skills.
• Service excellence and networking skills with an ability to build professional relationships at all levels.
• Experience reading and interpreting complex legal data/documents (desirable).
• Experience in PARIS and Genersys or equivalent rights management systems (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the interpretation, input and maintenance of rights information for ITV content into ITV's rights systems.
• Assisting ITV's sales and distribution arms with the creation and maintenance of Programme data and licences where necessary.
• Assess availability and offer accurate clearance and cost information to all exploitation areas within company deadlines.
• Maintain strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the continual flow of rights information into the department.
• Work closely with Talent and Royalty Payments team, offering authority to pay by inputting rights data into the relevant systems.
• Provide solutions to rights clearance and cost issues and, where necessary, undertake risk assessments through discussion with the Rights Manager and Head of Rights Management.
• Deliver Service in accordance with any Service Level Agreements that are managed by the Rights department.
• Support the development of new technologies to achieve future facing rights management systems.
• In conjunction with the Rights Managers and Head of Rights Management, negotiate rights clearances & renewals for secondary exploitation.
• Assisting in producing reporting to meet ITV's obligations.
• Keep abreast of rights & talent union issues through information circulated within Rights and Business Affairs.

Skills

Rights management

Digital rights

Commercial awareness

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Organisation

Stakeholder management

Reading legal data

Industry knowledge

Team collaboration

Tools

PARIS

Genersys

Job description

ITV is seeking a proactive Rights Executive - Digital to manage rights data for a broad catalogue of television programmes and formats. You will input and maintain rights information, support licensing, and work with internal teams to provide clear, timely cost data for exploitation.

Reporting into the Rights Management lead, you will build strong stakeholder relationships, navigate complex agreements, and help develop next-generation rights systems and processes while occasionally travelling