Licensing Manager (Academic)

Our client is a leading academic publisher based in Central London and is now looking for a Licensing Manager to join their Rights and Contracts Department. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced rights/licensing professional to manage the licensing activity of a global books and journals academic programme.

Key duties:

• Manage the delivery of the global licensing strategy and ensure that the revenue targets are met for books, journals and digital products
• Work closely and maintain good sustainable relationships with collective licencing bodies and internal contracts teams
• Present proposals to the Committee as appropriate and execute them following approval
• Supervise and manage the development of a team of direct reports
• Collaborate with the editorial teams to ensure that authors, editors and societies understand their licencing activity

Experience / skills required:

• Established experience within a rights sales and/or licensing of content within academic publishing or a related environment
• Previous line management and team development experience
• A proven negotiator with some experience of contracts
• Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills
• Strong project management skills

Applications deadline, Thursday 2 August.

For further information, please apply online or email a CV and salary expectations to christina@atwoodtate.co.uk

Contact:             Christina Dimitriadi

Tel:                    020 3574 4422

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