Senior Rights & Licensing Manager in London

Company Description

Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge, and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100. Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives.

Job Description

To maximise both the volume and value of subsidiary rights and permissions deals for the Corporate Division. The Senior Rights & Licensing Manager is responsible for maximising revenue for T&F Corporate across all subsidiary rights channels globally, ensuring revenue targets are met. The role manages direct reports based in the UK office.

Key Accountabilities:

• Co-ordinate Book Rights & Books & Journals Permissions policy, internal rights processes and best practice across all territories, ensuring that service standards are maintained and processes conveyed to editors and authors.
• Manage relationships with overseas partners and internal departments to maximise Rights opportunities and provide an excellent level of service to customers and authors.
• Develop a strong understanding of key authors and content to assure effective marketing and sales strategy globally.
• Represent the company externally, ensuring full coverage for international book fairs, sales trips and external copyright meetings/forums.
• Oversee revenue collection and allocation to ensure customer and author queries are addressed fully and revenue is applied in a timely manner.
• Ensure the rights database is accurately maintained and address the migration of external data when acquisitions take place.
• Maintain close communication with the wider Rights teams globally to ensure an expert service for all key stakeholders and consistency across the wider business.
• Maintain regular reports for Licensing Director outlining rights and permissions revenue receipts to include forecasting when required.
• Escalate copyright/author issues to Licensing Director and the Legal team when appropriate.
• Manage learning and development for all direct reports, identify and tackle skills gaps and implement training.
• Manage team budget, resource management and recruitment.

Qualifications Knowledge & Experience:

• The ideal candidate should have experience in a similar role.
• An understanding of Copyright.
• Experience of leading people and motivating sales teams.
• Familiarity with key business models and industry stakeholders.

Skills & Behaviours:

• Strong organisational skills and management competencies.
• Ability to plan strategically and prioritise effectively.
• Sales and negotiation expertise.
• Strong ability to communicate appropriately, both upstream and downstream within the organisation.
• Positive and flexible attitude, willing to take on many different types of tasks and apply to them the same level of effort and expertise.
• Creates and fosters a positive, open and flexible team approach.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
• The ability to work independently and pro-actively, with awareness of when to delegate tasks.
• Willingness to travel to events, conferences, and book fairs as required by the company.
• Target driven approach and the skills to manage sales plans and delivery.
• Ability to create and maintain positive and effective relationships with the sales team and other internal colleagues.

Additional Information

Closing Date: Friday 10th April 2026

What we offer in return:

• An excellent work/life balance with a fantastic, flexible working culture.
• 25 days annual leave per year plus a day off for your birthday.
• 3 additional discretionary days off during the holiday season at the end of the year.
• 4 paid volunteering days each year.
• Company funded single cover private medical insurance.
• Employee assistance programme – offering 24/7 well-being support.
• Share Match – Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.
• Pension scheme.
• Life assurance, plus optical and medical care.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That’s why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at conference – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely. The successful candidate will be able to utilise our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commuteable distance of our Milton Park, Oxfordshire, or Blackfriars, London office to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office locations to collaborate as required. There is an expectation for a minimum of 3 days per week in-person time.

If you have a disability, or face another barrier, and would like to request an adjustment to assist your participation in the hiring process and/or in the advertised position, please contact us. Your request will be dealt with in the strictest confidence.

Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you can show us your best self.

Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis

If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and contribute regardless of their identity or background.

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves.