Rights Executive - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

BBC Studios; London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

BBC Studios is looking for a Rights Executive to manage acquisitions and restrictions data. This role involves supervising a team, resolving rights conflicts, and ensuring data integrity in a dynamic media environment. Successful candidates will have strong administrative and data management skills, along with a passion for rights management in media.

Qualifications

• Experience in a media and/or content environment is essential.
• Experience with training end users on technology systems.
• Understanding of content acquisition processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Supervises the Rights Coordinators, provides line management and support.
• Collaborates on training documentation to ensure data accuracy.
• Acts as point of escalation for complex rights issues.

Skills

Administrative and data management experience

Reporting and data analysis experience

Data governance and Data migration experience

Identifying process improvements

Customer Service experience

Job description

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: £28,000 - £32,000 plus London Weighting Allowance of £5,319 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 world’s 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.
  
  

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 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, we’d 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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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.

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.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Broadcast Media Production and Distribution

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