Do you have experience of providing licensing and commercial negotiation expertise, on enterprise-wide electronic content licensing agreements within a regulated organisation?
This consulting opportunity is to support our client, a global organisation, in managing and negotiating electronic content licences across approximately 30 annual renewals. The focus is on usage statistics reporting and achieving compliant, cost-effective licence agreements in line with corporate requirements, particularly in the context of copyright and AI considerations.
The project needs a consultant who has:
- experience supporting licence pricing and commercial negotiations for electronic content
- understanding of licence terms and conditions within enterprise environments
- ability to manage usage data and reporting to support licensing decisions
- strong administrative organisation across contract tracking and vendor management
Key Services
The key services that you will be asked to provide are to:
- manage licence renewal and new agreement negotiation processes with publishers
- challenge and negotiate pricing to align with defined requirements
- negotiate licence terms and conditions in line with corporate standards
- produce usage statistics reporting to support licensing decisions
- maintain tracking documentation, contract checklists and vendor records
- manage stakeholder and publisher interactions across email, calls and meetings
- produce offer summary documents and licence compliance checklists
- provide weekly reporting on negotiation progress
Mandatory Requirements
Successful consultants will be able to demonstrate:
- experience supporting commercial licence negotiations within enterprise environments
- experience working with electronic content or publishing licences
- understanding of pricing and contract negotiation processes
- experience managing multiple concurrent licence renewals
- strong organisational and administrative capability
- strong communication skills to engage with external vendors and internal stakeholders.
Optional Requirements
It will also be advantageous if you have:
- awareness of copyright considerations and AI related licensing implications
- a scientific degree
Working Pattern: Remote (UK) & part time – 2 days a week
Contract Type: Inside IR35 (FTC – annual salaried remuneration)
Start: ASAP
Duration: 12 months +