Licensing Operations Coordinator

We are the world’s largest university press. We have both a worldwide reach and a personal understanding of local needs, partnering on the ground to adapt publications and resources to meet the individual needs of communities, societies, and countries. We partner with researchers, educators, and technology partners to stay ahead of the changing ways people around the world are accessing and sharing knowledge. With a presence in more than 50 countries and millions of customers around the world, an idea launched at OUP can have global impact.

About the Role

We are looking for an organised, enthusiastic, and highly motivated team member to join this busy and high-achieving team. This essential role provides full administrative support to our Licensing team responsible for selling digital and audio reprint rights around the world and interacts with a broad range of functions, making this an ideal entrance point into all the facets the publishing process.

You will work as part of the Operations team, supporting relationships with existing customers as well as helping to discover and grow new business. We manage a large list of contracts across our Academic and Journals lists, working closely with licensing partners across the globe, enabling OUP titles to reach users through a range of innovative and exciting products. Our mission is to increase dissemination of our book and Journals content, exploring new markets and products whilst promoting our authors, societies and brand profile. We are a tight-knit, collaborative and supportive team, and no two days are the same!

Duties of the role will include:

• Providing administrative assistance and operational support to the team
• Providing administrative support to the Director of Corporate Sales and Licensing
• Efficiently and effectively managing the incoming rights checking requests
• Develop a deep understanding of digital licensing to analyse information from various sources
• Efficiently and effectively managing the processing of contracts to completion
• Developing detailed knowledge of publishing lists, key titles and partnerships to assist the team in their licensing endeavours
• Liaising with authors, societies and publishers on pre- and post-deal matters such as production schedules, statements and samples

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office. 

About You

This is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking to start their career in academic publishing, and who is exploring a future in Licensing, we ask that candidates are ideally able to demonstrate prior admin and/or office experience and would ask that they also have:

• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Organised approach, with good attention to detail, and prioritisation skills
• Ability to adapt to different operational/support systems
• Computer literacy - familiarity with MS Office with a particular focus on Excel
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as autonomously
• An interest in publishing is highly desirable

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies. 

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts. 

This role comes with a discretionary annual bonus.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact tobi.ogunnaike@oup.com with any queries relating to this role. 

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.