Rights Executive
Description
Why you should join us…
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ITV manages a catalogue of 250,000+ hours of television programmes and feature films produced by the ITV companies or commissioned/acquired from third parties for broadcast and 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.
The Team
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 Role
The Rights Executive works with the Senior Rights Executive and Rights Manager 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. This is a great entry level role for someone who is keen to expand their legal skills into a media environment and/or begin a career in media
Key Responsibilities
- Be responsible for the interpretation, input and maintenance of rights information for ITV content
- Assisting ITV’s sales and distribution arms with the creation and maintenance of Programme data
- Assess availability and offer accurate clearance and cost information to all exploitation areas
- 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.
- Keep abreast of rights & talent union issues through information circulated within Rights and Business Affairs.
Requirements
Minimum criteria
- Experience working within a legal or media environment
- Ideally you will be knowledgeable and passionate about TV and have strong commercial awareness
- You will have strong literacy, numeracy and IT skills having heavily utilised these in a previous role
ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from candidates with a disability and as a Disability Confident Leader, we have committed to interview all candidates with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role (*minimum criteria above).
There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.
Key criteria
- 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 and interpreting complex legal data/documents (desirable)
- Experienced user of PARIS and Genersys, or equivalent rights management systems (desirable)
- As part of an international business, out of hours calls and/or attendance may be required. Some UK travel may be required.
Please note: Following the shortlisting of this role we will be conducting a 2 hour assessment morning pencilled in for 22nd March at 10:30am. Please keep this in mind when applying to the position as we will not be holding any separate time slots.
Benefits & Perks
What we can offer
At ITV all of our eligible employees get an annual bonus. We’re a living wage employer - in fact we were the first UK broadcaster to sign up.
We look after our people at every stage of their career and through different life events. We provide all employees with digital health services, wellbeing support, income protection cover and life assurance, as well as enhanced family leave and pay.
We help everyone save today and also for tomorrow, with brilliant deals on high street and online shopping, a savings plan with the opportunity to buy discounted ITV shares and our DC Pension Plan, which ITV will also contribute to.
Plus, you can choose from a range of benefits to suit your lifestyle, from buying up to six weeks of extra holiday a year, private healthcare or a health cash plan, to saving money on a bike, gym membership or a brand-new low-emission car.
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