Rights Executive - Digital

ITV; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

ITV is seeking a Rights Executive - Digital to manage and maintain critical rights data for ITV content, supporting sales, distribution and licensing activities. You will negotiate clearances, provide cost information, and interact with Talent and Royalty Payments teams to ensure timely payments.

Working in the Rights Management team, you will help develop future rights systems, stay updated with industry issues, and occasionally travel for international duties or out-of-hours support.

Qualifications

• Experience in television rights, digital and social media exploitation.
• Strong literacy, numeracy and IT skills.
• Brand protection and commercial awareness required.

Responsibilities

• Input and maintain rights data in ITV systems per policies.
• Support sales and distribution with programme data and licences.
• Assess availability and provide clearance and cost information by deadlines.
• Negotiate rights clearances and renewals for secondary exploitation.
• Produce rights reporting to meet ITV obligations.
• Work with Talent and Royalty Payments teams to input data for payments.
• Develop and implement improvements for future rights management systems.
• Travel as needed and handle out-of-hours calls.

Skills

Rights management

Digital & social media

Attention to detail

IT skills

Commercial awareness

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Negotiation

Organisation

Brand protection

Tools

PARIS

Genersys

Job description

The Role

ITV manages a catalogue of 250,000+ hours of television programmes & feature films and formats produced by ITV Studios or acquired by Global Partnerships for distribution. Effective management of the rights data that informs availability of these assets underpins the company’s commercial strategies for the exploitation and re-use of content throughout the world via multiple distribution channels. As part of the Legal team, the Rights Management department works closely with Production, Music, and Finance to provide all areas of the business, and ITV’s strategic partners, with visibility and access to its content. The department engages with many areas of the business that need rights availability and cost information in order to licence content – including via internal trading. Licensing of content itself leads to payment and reporting obligations that also rely on accurate rights data. The Rights Executive - Digital works with the Senior Rights Executive - Digital and Rights Manager - Digital to promote the widest possible exploitation of ITV’s content by recording and maintaining rights data, advising on the availability and cost of exploiting rights and supporting ITV’s sales and distribution arms through the documentation, governance and administration of rights exploitation.

Main Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the interpretation, input and maintenance of rights information for ITV content into ITV’s rights systems in accordance with agreed policies and standards.
• 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 required 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.
• As part of an international business, out of hours calls and/or attendance may be required. Some UK travel may be required.

Skills / Experience Required

• 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
• Commercial Awareness
• Strong organisational and information management skills
• Service excellence and networking skills - effective communication, interpersonal and influencing skills with an ability to build successful, professional working relationships at all levels
• Possess a strong eye for detail and accuracy
• Experience in reading, researching and interpreting complex legal data/documents (desirable)
• Experienced user of PARIS and Genersys, or equivalent rights management systems (desirable)