Rights Coordinator, Studios, IMG

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 events management. It powers growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 200 federations, associations, events, and teams, including the National Football League, English Premier League, International Olympic Committee, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, ATP and WTA Tours, the AELTC (Wimbledon), Euroleague Basketball, CONMEBOL, DP World Tour, and The R&A, as well as UFC, WWE, and PBR. IMG is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world’s premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans. TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

What You'll Do:

As a Rights Coordinator, you’ll play a key role in supporting the Rights Manager and Archive Producers with the clearance and use of archive footage, stills, and audio. Working as part of the Research & Rights Management team, you’ll help manage the end-to-end process - from sourcing and clearing rights to maintaining accurate documentation and supporting financial administration.

You’ll liaise with internal teams and external rights holders, ensure all usage is fully cleared and compliant, and keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes to support content delivery for a key client account.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Acting as the point of contact for both internal and external footage suppliers.

• Offer consultation to client’s production partners on research and archive clearance best practice.

• Proactive management of archive footage clearances, contracts and licences across multiple productions including delegation of work to the rights assistant.

• Proactively maintaining key administrative documents relating to footage archive, rights clearance including tracking of all rights in place and their expiration dates

• Manage all budgets, cost reports, payments and invoicing associated to all footage, archive, stills and audio usage and clearance fees.

• Assisting the Production Accountant with monthly financial reports.

• Assist Rights Manager and Archive Producers in the development of training materials and facilitate sharing of knowledge of rights clearance processes.

• You may also be required to carry out any other duties, which are within the scope and purpose of the job.

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent client liaison/management skills

• Excellent organizational skills

• Excellent presentation skills

• Keenness to learn and take on more responsibility

• A team player and able to work well under pressure

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience with licensing and/or rights

• Experience of liaising with clients and agencies or similar customer facing experience

• Experience maintaining and reporting on budgets

• Experience with PowerPoint, Excel and Word software packages

Working Conditions:

• The work location is Chiswick Park, London.

• This is a fixed term contact until May 2027

• Working hours are 9-5 pm with occasional work outside of working hours where necessary for the business

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