Rights Manager in London

Taylor & Francis is seeking an experienced Rights Manager to drive and maximise licensing revenue for all imprints across global markets. This is a key commercial role that combines sales expertise, strategic relationship management, data rigour, and effective team leadership. Reporting directly to the Senior Rights & Licensing Manager (Corporate Division), the position manages a team of UK-based direct reports. The role offers a hybrid working arrangement within the UK and requires international travel for key book fairs, sales trips, and partner meetings. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of a leading global publishing organisation.

The opportunity

You will lead rights sales across multiple subsidiary rights channels for all imprints, ensuring revenue targets are met. You will shape policy and best practice, build strong relationships with partners and internal teams, and represent Taylor & Francis on the international stage. As a people leader, you will coach and develop a high‑performing team and ensure a consistent, customer‑first rights service.

What you’ll be doing:

• Co-ordinate Book Rights licensing 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 licensing 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 third‑party 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 Licensing teams globally to ensure an expert service for all key stakeholders and consistency across the wider business.
• Issue monthly reports for Senior Rights & Licensing Manager outlining rights revenue receipts to include forecasting when required.
• Escalate copyright/author issues to line manager and Legal when appropriate.
• Manage learning and development for all direct reports, identify and tackle skill gaps and implement training.
• Manage team budget, resource management and recruitment.

Qualifications

What you’ll bring

• Substantial experience in a comparable rights/licensing role within publishing.
• Thorough understanding of copyright and subsidiary rights across multiple territories.
• Proven sales and negotiation capability with a record of closing high‑value, multi‑market deals.
• Strong organisational discipline, strategic planning, and the ability to prioritise in a fast‑paced environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, culturally aware and effective with diverse stakeholders. Knowledge of a second language is a plus, but not essential.
• High level of numeracy; advanced Excel skills essential. Confidence with rights/royalties systems and data hygiene.
• People management experience is desirable; readiness to lead, mentor, and develop others is essential.

Additional Information

Location: 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 commutable distance of one of our UK offices at Milton Park, Oxfordshire, or Blackfriars, London 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.

Please note our Milton Park office will be relocating to Oxford city centre in late 2027 / early 2028, offering an exciting new workplace in the heart of the city.

Closing Date: Applications will close on Friday 15th May 2026.

What we offer in return:

• An excellent work/life balance and flexible working culture
• 25 days annual leave per year plus an extra day off each year 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
• Informa Anywhere - up to four weeks per year working from any location
• Share Match – Plan that matches every share purchased with two free shares.
• Life assurance, plus optical and medical care options

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 make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life.

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. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor.

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 are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible!