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About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join a motivated, friendly, and dedicated team managing activities to support our suite of English language teaching and learning products.
The Product IP and Contracts Controller contributes to managing all intellectual property and contracting processes across the lifecycle of the commissioning of writers, consultants, series editors, researchers, and reviewer's workflow for the Primary sector. You will be responsible for supporting on management and tracking for IP bearing contracts, supporting OUP Royalties' team in maintaining accurate intellectual property (IP) data in SAP, and ensuring legal contracted requirements are met and adhered to.
You will work for a specific ELT sector but will be part of a community of practice with Product IP and Contracts Controllers IP controllers to ensure standards are rigorously and consistently maintained across sectors and teams in Product Management.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
Essential:
* Knowledge or interest on contracting, intellectual property areas
* Excellent knowledge of software packages (especially Word, Excel, MS Teams, Outlook)
* Proven Microsoft Excel skills, with the capability to navigate data, analyse trends for insights as well as continuous improvement recommendations (V-Look-Ups / Pivot tables)
* Experience in a busy administrative role
* Excellent organizational and time management skills, strong collaboration skills, high-level interpersonal skills with excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Proactive and flexible approach to new requests and ideas
* Strong problem-solving skills with an ability to pick up new systems and processes in order to implement best practice approaches as needed
* Able to multi-task effectively and adapt well to the fast pace of change in the organization
Desirable:
* Experience working in a publishing organization
* Experience of business process improvements
* Experience with Power BI
Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Queries
Please contact grace.mcfadyen@oup.com with any queries relating to this role.
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