Archive Producer, Studios in London

Who We Are: IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, specializing in media rights management and sales, multi-channel content production and distribution, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and event management.

Overview of Job: An exciting opportunity to oversee our archive clearances for the Netflix Production of the Women’s World Cup 2027. Working with the Edit & Live Producers, this role will deliver archive clearances for live match presentation programming and non-live content. This role will require close working and alignment with the Edit & Live producers across the English, Spanish and French productions as well as managing archive clearances for the third-party creative agency engaged by Netflix.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Lead the end-to-end archive clearance process for live match presentation programming and non-live content across the Women’s World Cup 2027 production.
• Work closely with the Edit & Live Producers (IMG & third party agency) to identify archive requirements, assess feasibility and ensure requests are progressed in line with editorial and production schedules.
• Manage archive clearances across the English, Spanish and French language productions, maintaining clear communication and alignment between teams.
• Liaise with archive owners, rights holders, broadcasters, federations, agencies and other external suppliers to obtain permissions, costs, terms and delivery requirements.
• Maintain accurate records of archive requests, rights status, usage restrictions, costs, approvals, contracts and supporting paperwork.
• Ensure all archive is cleared for the intended platform, territory, language, programme, duration, transmission window and promotional use, as required.
• Provide clear and timely updates on the status of archive requests, highlighting risks, delays, cost implications or rights limitations to the relevant production leads.
• Work with Production Management to monitor archive budgets, commitments, schedules and purchase order requirements.
• Coordinate the delivery, receipt and technical management of archive materials, working with the IMG Studios Media Management team and relevant editorial departments.
• Ensure archive material is correctly labelled, logged and available to the relevant edit and live production teams.
• Support the resolution of archive queries during production, edit, transmission and post-production.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with key departmental personnel, clients, rights holders and suppliers.
• Support the delivery of high-quality and consistent programming on time, within budget and in accordance with client requirements.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Mandatory: Considerable experience as an Archive Producer/ Clearance Producer.
• Proven experience managing archive clearances from request through to approval, delivery and reporting.
• Good knowledge of rights, permissions, licensing terms and usage restrictions.
• Experience working with rights holders, broadcasters, agencies and external suppliers.
• Understanding of football content, international sports production and live match presentation.

Skills and Abilities:

• Mandatory: Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple requests and changing priorities.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Clear and confident communication.
• Ability to identify clearance risks and find practical solutions.
• Strong negotiation, relationship-management and collaboration skills.
• Able to work independently, make informed decisions and meet deadlines under pressure.

Working Conditions: This role is based at IMG Offices, Stockley Park. This is a Fixed-Term contract for 8.5 months. You will be required to work across all live output for Netflix’s coverage of the Women’s World Cup 2027 – this may require overnight work. Our team is based across multiple time-zones, some online meetings will need to take place in the evening.