Licensing Administrator

Licensing Associate

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Be part of a community working together to make science better. A society publisher with the perfect blend of not-for-profit purpose and commercial perspective. Here, we help each other be the best we can be: a team big enough to impact and small enough to care. 

We have an opportunity for a Licensing Associate to join our team on a 12 month fixed term contract.

Role Summary

**What will you be doing? **

The Licensing Associate will be responsible for performing sales licensing and negotiation activity with our global customer base, as well as sharing legal expertise with the wider business. The role will be responsible for helping to ensure the successful negotiation and completion of complex sales licences; ensuring they are executed in an accurate, timely and efficient manner, in-line with customer and business requirements.

**Key job accountabilities: **
- Partnering with colleagues to manage the full cycle of licensing administration process including but not limited to drafting and negotiate suite of licence agreements and amendments.
- Supporting sales by directly engaging with customers, as appropriate, to resolve issues, answering queries and providing tender documentation.
- Assist with review and completion of licensing related compliance forms and post completion licensing administration.
- Working with Sales Team to understand standard products and services we sell, maintaining and updating the standard licence templates for use by the licensing team.
- Develop licensing terms and conditions to meet new business requirements where required.
- Drafting effective legal clauses to reflect the requirements of each case.

**About you**:

- Legal degree/qualification or equivalent experience is desirable.
- Essential to have a background in and experience of working with contracts, ideally in publishing
- Ability to review, understand the impact of and draft sound legal clauses and text
- Proven ability to exercise professional judgement in advising decisions
- Excellent communication skills, evidenced by use of technology
- Knowledge of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Medical) publishing desirable but not required
- Skilled at collaborative working
- Creative problem solver
- Tenacity and drive for results
- Highly organised with excellent planning skills
- Naturally comfortable working in a team environment
- Avid about continuous improvement

We know it is unusual for someone to tick every box so, if you don’t meet all the criteria, but demonstrate most of the skills and experience we are looking for, and have the enthusiasm to work with us, go ahead and apply. 

We pride ourselves on being a flexible and inclusive employer, if you have a preference to work flexibly please do apply 

**Who We Are: **

IOP Publishing is a society-owned scientific publisher, providing impact, recognition and value for the scientific community. As the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, 100% of our profit goes towards public and scientific good. 

**Why work with us at IOP Publishing: **

**Purpose: **We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community - working in the interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish. 

**Culture**: We offer a truly international culture with offices in Europe, Asia and the US and our reach is global. Our culture is the perfect blend of dedicated and intelligent professionalism, informal, friendly collaboration and authenticity with a social conscience.  

**Financial Benefits**:  a competitive salary starting from £30,000 (Band B) depending on experience, an excellent pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution), a discretionary annual bonus scheme, £200 payment on completion of probation period, and a range of other useful and cost-saving benefits available through our benefits platform. 

**Health and Wellbeing**: 33+ days holiday (including bank holidays), plus an extra day’s leave to use for a moment that matters to you, a 35-hour working week, life assurance, cycle to work scheme, dental insurance, health care cash plan, and a great positive working environment in our brand new office in central Bristol - modern airy and designed with all of our colleagues in mind - for work and social time. 

**Flexibility**: a flexible hybrid working environment to suit everyone’s needs
- we don’t need you in the office every day so we can consider applicants from further afield who can travel to Bristol likely once per month and team in-person days, depending on when face to face time is needed (any travel to the Bristol office is at the employees own expenses). 

And last but not least, did we mention that we are unique : IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society and we gift-aid all our profits to support science through the activities of the Institute.   

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