Senior Contracts & Rights Coordinator

Senior Contracts & Rights Coordinator 

ITV Media & Entertainment 

Full-time | 12 months Fixed Term Contract

Office location: Leeds | Hyrbid

*working patterns apply /  with occasional travel to London

Hiring Range: £35,000 – £40,000

Your work matters to millions.

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it’s not surprising that you’ll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we’re at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution. When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact’s felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don’t just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

Your impact sends ripples.

The team

We are looking for a Senior Contracts and Rights Coordinator to join our Contracts and Rights team, based in Leeds on a 12 months fixed term contract basis. The Contracts and Rights team, as part of the Legal & Business Affairs function, provides a comprehensive and first class content related contracts and rights management service for the Media & Entertainment (M&E) division.

The Contracts and Rights team provide support to the Legal & Business Affairs team and are responsible for drafting and issuing standard form contracts for all M&E programming and capturing contractual and rights data into ITV’s systems.

The Senior Contracts and Rights Coordinator works with the Contracts and Rights Manager and the Head of Contracts and Rights Management to ensure M&E can promote the widest possible exploitation of its by overseeing the end to end contracting and rights management process, advising on availability and the cost of exploiting rights and supporting key stakeholders through the documentation, governance and administration of rights exploitation.

The role

Some Key Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Line manage, support and develop a team of Contracts & Rights Coordinators; set objectives, monitor team performance and serve as a positive role model embodying ITV values and behaviours .
• Drive processes efficiencies, providing and encouraging creative solutions to advance the productivity of the team and ensure that the team is equipped with the resources required to operate as a successful contracts and rights management team.
• Manage the end-to-end process from internal sign-off, preparing and issuing initial drafts of agreements and issuing signature copies of contracts and arranging for prompt signature. Ensure all contract requests and enquiries are dealt with using a customer service led approach.
• Ensure the timely and accurate input, update and maintenance of contracts and rights data into ITV’s systems to reflect new information and to apply updates to existing information.
• To act as a point of contact for all aspects of contracts and rights queries (internal & external), such as copyright clearance, underlying rights queries, industry and regulatory legislation, terms of trade, talent union and music agreements.
• Build and maintain relationships with all internal stakeholders and external suppliers, managing enquiries with a first class customer service led approach.
• Support on ad-hoc projects as they arise and co-ordinate such projects across the Legal & Business Affairs team or ITV as required.

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Supervisory skills and the ability to coach, develop and train team members is essential.
• Ability to efficiently manage time and prioritise tasks, scheduling workload effectively to meet deadlines and achieve performance targets.
• Strong and effective communication, interpersonal and influencing skills and an ability to build successful working relationships at all levels is a must.
• Contracts and data management experience; preferably in a media and/or legal environment – either in-house or private practice.
• Proven drafting ability and excellent attention to detail.
• Proficient in using Google suite and relevant Contracts and Rights Managements Systems with the ability to learn and adapt to new systems when required.

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Ability to develop existing processes to meet the changing needs of the business and to continuously improve and develop understanding of new and innovative technologies.
• Can effectively manage competing priorities with a customer service approach to deliver quality even when reacting to changing circumstances.
• Able to monitor own work to ensure it reaches successful completion with the foresight to plan ahead and anticipate potential problems.

ITV is for everyone.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we’ll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

We’re happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Please discuss with your recruiter during the process.

* 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.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:

• Flexible working with a range of options
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn – with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life

Closing date: Monday 18th December 2023