Usage Rights Project Manager

Powered locally and aligned globally, Publicis Production EMEA Hub forms the regional backbone of Publicis Production. With over 1.200 talented professionals based in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, the UK, and Mauritius, we enable smarter, faster, and more connected content delivery for global brands. Our integrated capabilities include post and primary production, versioning, commerce, web development, CRM, and language services. As part of the global Publicis Production network, our mission is to transform production into a true growth driver. By combining tech, data, automation, and AI, we deliver intelligent content at scale. We are proud to power Publicis Groupe’s ambition to build the world’s best global integrated production offering. 

Overview

• Working in an international environment and global Clients  

• Independent management of the projects and resources dealing with eCommerce and digital assets such as eRetailer content, banners, newsletters, etc.  

• Manage data and project management concerning Usage Rights

• Negotiations of Usage Rights

• Supervision over all phases of the project delivery  

• Cooperation with the internal departments involved in production process  

• Create new campaign Usage Rights in the platforms/tools and collect data from Business Affairs, including agencies, transcreation agencies, and the sound department

• Check the status of Usage Rights and manage/tracking talent and music rights across various global client brands.

• Preparation of project documentation (process mapping, RACI, communication rules, project pre-requisite, briefing templates, tools landscape and set up)  

• Delegating tasks, briefing appropriate teams and verifying the correctness of task performance  

• Running projects using dedicated project management tools (JIRA, Teams, Smartsheet)  

• Introducing solutions optimizing defined ways of working to ensure the best-in-class approach  

• Risk management and efficient trouble shooting  

Qualifications

• Experience in data and project management, especially concerning Usage Rights, Creative Production, Agency environments, or Sourcing 

• Experience in negotiations of Usage Rights

• Practical knowledge of technical requirements and limitations

• Experience in time scheduling, requirements analysis and experience with work project management tools.

• Project management agile methodologies knowledge.

• Experience in working with tools that improve cooperation between teams, such as Jira, Teams, Sharepoint.

• Ability to organize work and build good relationships and efficient communication with business owners of the project (customer / customer service).

• Very good English language (must have prerequisite).

• Autonomy and independence in decision-making.

• Good knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel.

Additional Information

We offer the following:

• Opportunity to develop in a stable company with an established position in the market.

• Extensive range of online training courses in cooperation with reputable market partners.

• Opportunity to participate in international and local development projects and programmes.

• International working environment.

• Attractive package of non-wage benefits (medical care, the Nais benefit platform, recreation allowance, access to a platform for learning foreign languages, access to the Marcel international training platform, etc.).

• High working flexibility (we work in a hybrid model, with predominance of home office).

• Work Your World – opportunity to work from any place in the world for 6 weeks a year and access to the Home Swap Home internal platform.

• Friendly and casual working atmosphere in a close-knit team filled with positive energy.

  At Publicis Groupe, we value diversity and invite all candidates to apply, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, religion or lack thereof, origin or disability.