Senior Rights and Royalties Assocate

Sonia Bali

Cell 551-***-****; Email: *****.******.*@*****.***

SUMMARY:

●Senior Rights and Royalty Associate with over 6 years’ experience in designing and monitoring royalty license agreements, contracts and processes.

●Analytic bend of mind, a strong legal orientation as well as enhanced interpersonal communication skills and negotiation ability. Developed negotiation skills to interact with clients or their legal representatives to develop and implement license contracts.

●Knowledge of copyrights, patents, legal agreements and related matters.

●Attention to detail and good research skills.

●Ability to handle multiple tasks in a high paced working environment.

●Adhere to the corporate licensing framework and standardized processes.

●Enhanced interpretation abilities of the terms and conditions of royalty agreements also come in extremely handy for resolving royalty disputes.

●Enhanced interpersonal skills to enable them to convince other internal departments such as legal, finance, administration about the system reviews and revenue projections that they make periodically.

●Worked with Onsite/offshore model

●Responsible for task allocation and management of offshore resources

EDUCATION

●Master of Business Administration (HR) - HMRITM (GGSIP University) with 76%

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES: -

●JIRA – Defect Management

●Microsoft Office 2016 (MS Excel, Power Point), Adobe reader, Microsoft Visio

●Skype for Business 2016

●Microsoft Teams

●SharePoint server 2016

●Windows 10

EXPERIENCE

Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Private Limited. June 2016 to till date

Senior Rights and Royalties Analyst

Thieme Medical Publishers is a German medical and science publisher in the Thieme Publishing Group. It produces professional journals, textbooks, atlases, monographs and reference books in both German and English covering a variety of medical specialties, including neurosurgery, orthopaedics, endocrinology, radiology, anatomy, chemistry, otolaryngology, ophthalmology, audiology and speech language pathology, and complementary and alternative medicine.

Responsibilities:

●Providing vital administrative support to the International Rights Manager and the Rights Team

●Arranging for the dispatch of examination copies (e-books and print books) to prospective foreign rights clients and acting as contact to them

●Monitoring instalments on royalties due and invoicing them

●Double checking sales reports of the license customers and issuing invoices for their sales

●Preparing and dispatching promotion material (regular electronic newsletters and quarterly previews on new titles), especially via email

●Booking and preparing appointments and managing diaries for international book fairs

●Supporting meeting follow-ups (after business trips of the International Rights Manager and after the International Book Fairs)

●Filing contracts and keeping accurate and up-to-date records in the software system Klopotek

●Generating and maintaining statistics in excel lists

●Monitoring expired contract options and check with the potential licensees

●Monitoring scheduled publication dates of foreign language editions and check with licensees

●Liaising with accounts and handling the individual dunning process for license customers

●Supporting the permission teams (checking illustration rights and granting permission)

●Regularly uploading data to the portal of the Anti-Piracy-Serviceprovider

●Providing assistance for new businesses

●Preparing translation rights agreements

●Preparing guidelines for different work steps in the department

●Used JIRA for task management.

●Effort estimation and defined guidelines for test cycles.

Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd. March 2015 to June 2016

Rights Analyst

Pearson PLC is a British multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London. It is the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world.

Pearson Education India specializes in the publication of academic and reference books in the fields of computer science, engineering, business & management, professional & trade, higher education and competitive examination preparation books.

Responsibilities: -

●Drafting Author agreements and addendums for all divisions Education, Academic and HE.

●Acquiring Reprint/Adaptation licenses from US/UK (Intercompany)

●E-files requisition.

●System maintenance (BookMaster and Contracts application)

●Allocation of ISBN for all the active projects

●Maintaining record of Author database in internal application.

●Updating royalties as per the contract in the system.

●Extracting and rolling out Royalty Statement to Authors by the end of fiscal year.

●Sent complimentary/Author copies on time.

●Coordination with Finance to ensure accuracy in royalty tracking and payment to author’s and third-party vendors.

●Provided support to Editorial staff in author relationships including clarification and impact of contract terms.

●Maintained working relationship with Editorial, Marketing, Production and Finance.

●Archival of all contracts and associated documents as required in systems and files.

●Cleared off royalty suspense by mapping the title correctly in the system.

●To interact and address any author concern regarding royalties.

Achievements:

●Handled PHI project individually where in procured 250 licenses, maintained record and assigned ISBNs for same in addition to regular/routine work.

●Awarded Pearson Decent value card.

●Awarded Bright Spot award.

●Initiated a space on Pearson Global platform for Rights and Contracts process

●Have developed & streamlined rights process successfully.

Pearson India Education Services Pvt. Ltd. April 2014 to February 2015

Permissions Coordinator

Responsibilities: -

●Auditing US/UK logs for any permissible content in case of Adaptations/Reprints

●Extracting US logs from PRISM

●Ascertaining permissible content through manuscript review in case of Indian Originals

●Locating and contacting right Copyright holder.

●Procuring permissions within 2-3 months’ timeline.

●Ensuring 85% clearances are met in a project.

●Maintaining permission logs.

●Ensuring accuracy of data capture into the system (Rights Capture) after project completion.

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