About this role
Job Purpose -
- Responsible for end-to-end contract management, rights validation and strategy support, and ISBN administration, ensuring effective risk management, compliance, and governance across the publishing lifecycle.
Key Accountabilities & Relationships – what I need to do and who I need to engage
- Provide end-to-end contract support, including pre-contract guidance, contract execution, document retention, archival, retrieval, and tracking of contract expiries and renewals.
- Advise stakeholders on appropriate contracting requirements and facilitate efficient contract management processes across the business.
- Identify and manage IP-related risks, escalating non-standard or complex matters to Group Legal and collaborating closely to ensure compliant outcomes.
- Maintain accurate contract metadata within Rights Management Systems and related databases.
- Analyse publishing agreements, licensing arrangements, and royalty provisions to ensure accurate rights administration and financial processing.
- Ensure titles and contributors are correctly mapped within systems to facilitate accurate revenue-sharing and royalty disbursements.
- Support Finance by providing author and rights-holder revenue allocation details for sublicensing income and related rights transactions.
- Assess and validate rights ownership and permissions for OUP content, ensuring the necessary rights are in place before entering licensing or commercial arrangements.
- Manage and respond to third-party requests relating to the licensing of copyrighted content.
- Administer ISBN allocation and management processes, ensuring compliance with publishing and metadata standards.
- Build effective working relationships with Editorial, Product, Sales, Finance, Operations, Rights, and Group Legal teams to support business objectives and ensure strong governance.
Success Measures – how I succeed
- Risk mitigation and IP governance
- Implementing and managing the Rights Management System efficiently
- Cost effective sourcing of third-party assets and promoting re-use of existing IP
- Increased IP awareness across division
Knowledge, Skills & Attributes – what I need to know
- Good understanding of copyright law and rights and permissions best practices
- Well versed with legal terms
- Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, experienced with communicating at all levels of an organisation and across different cultures.
- Capable of professionally managing confidential information
- Exemplify a strong attention to detail