Licensing Sales Executive
Location:
London
Department:
Group Operations and Platforms
Salary Details:
Not Specified
Advertising End Date:
16 Mar 2025
Job Description
Awards Licensing Sales Executive
News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.
The Team: We are News Licensing, the content licensing team for News UK’s stable of brands. We represent our own staff and freelance photographers and writers, licensing their material as well as our brands, to clients around the world. Our clients include digital & print publishers, TV & film production companies, book publishers, educational establishments and corporates.
Your Role: With a focus on commercial sales development you will support the Corporate Awards business working across both operational and commercial activities. You will have shared responsibility in managing the sales pipeline for trademark licensing of brands including The Sunday Times Best Places to Work, The Times Money Mentor and Style Fashion awards as well as helping to drive general growth in awards licensing revenue and operations.
Day to day:
+ Collaborate with the Operations Manager to help grow awards trademark licensing revenue.
+ Identify and help to present new corporate award ideas to the team and wider business.
+ Identify sales growth opportunities for existing corporate awards.
+ Work with the licensing operations executive to manage the corporate awards website, manage user requests and deal with customer enquiries.
+ Represent licensing at editorial meetings on existing corporate awards to ensure changes and updates are made.
+ Day to day licensing sales activity on awards including outgoing sales, invoicing, credit control and general administration.
What we’re looking for from you:
+ A commercially focused sales professional with the ability to meet and exceed agreed targets.
+ An understanding of intellectual property law and rights.
+ Ability to work independently.
+ Competency with common business applications including MS Office.
+ Excellent time management, organisation and prioritising skills.
+ Ability to think and act quickly under pressure.
+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.
+ Understanding of our business/marketplace.
+ Prior experience of working in an endorsement licensing role is preferred but not essential.
At News UK, we know the value of working together, which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Being in the office allows us to collaborate, innovate, and thrive as a team in our vibrant and dynamic workspace. Some roles may require more office-based days depending on the nature of the position, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter to learn more about what’s required for your role.
We are News UK : One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , which focuses on three main priorities – attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
+ Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks
+ Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
+ Private medical insuranceincluding coverage for pre-existing conditions
+ Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
+ ‘Bikes for Work’and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
+ Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
+ Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
+ Access towellbeing benefitssuch as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
+ A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
+ 25 daysholiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4volunteeringdays per year
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