Asset Rights Manager

Hogarth Worldwide is the world's leading creative content production company. Born to make the best work brilliantly, we combine craft, insight and technology to bring creative work to life for many of the world's most famous brands.

**A Hybrid working model**

Now offices are fully open we have embraced a hybrid working model, which allows our employees to split their time between the office and other locations, something we hope will provide everyone much more flexibility to their working week. The expectation is that working life at Hogarth will involve working from the office for about 50% of the time for most people. Please speak to the Talent Acquisition team to find out more information.

The Asset Rights Manager must have a strong willingness to learn and understand the asset production process (print, digital and video). This position requires some familiarity with overall agency workflow process from creative brief to final asset delivery and the contributors/participants at each stage of development, along with a strong background in asset rights and usage management.

This individual is service oriented and must have the ability to build and maintain internal/external relationships. They are a representative of Makerhouse interfacing with partner agencies, suppliers, and clients. They are a responsible, energetic, self-directed, proactive individual with exceptional people skills. They are independent and welcome challenges. They embrace and promote process adherence and continuous improvements.

is to drive creative excellence + effectiveness, along with savings + efficiency across all aspects
of our clients' business. And have fun doing it.

**Major Responsibilities**

This individual's day-to-day responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Work within suite of Digital Asset Management (DAM) tools to ensure all finished assets have been curated with complete metadata and accurate rights and usage information
- Work directly with client and agency teams to receive all finished content and associated metadata and rights/usage information
- Support global process during deployment, adoption, training and onboarding of rights and licensing policies and procedures, systems, and communications.
- Track rights/usage information on assets across multiple systems (Multiple DAMs, ExtremeReach, etc.)
- Manage user accessibility to systems and work with tech teams to trouble shoot user issues.
- Troubleshoot and document issues, and provide ideas for solutions
- Oversee quality control and share responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of the asset library
- Assist in demonstrating proper usage of all asset tools, supporting users, and promoting its use
- Recommend measures to improve work processes, departmental performance, system improvements and asset quality; and assist in their development and deployment
- Maintain and support all company Quality Management System standards and policies

**KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS**
- Experience with Enterprise Level Digital Asset Management systems
- Proven talent, rights + licensing experience preferred
- Knowledge of issues that can arise regarding assets including but not limited to Production, Legal, Product Information, and Licensing
- Understanding of industry standard usage terms, rights information, license and release requirements for talent, materials, locations, etc.and how that translates to asset usage and repurposing.
- Proficient at searching databases based on information available
- Awareness of what metadata is and its purpose
- Large-scale global client experience
- Positive personality with ability to see solutions
- Ability to manage one or more projects simultaneously
- Working knowledge of Adobe Creative suite tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS**
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- 2+ years of relevant work experience
- Have physical and mental requirements to meet the above listed job responsibilities
- Excellent customer service skills, with a strong commitment to a positive, helpful attitude
- Logical and efficient work style
- Ability to effectively self-prioritize and execute tasks with mínimal supervision
- Proven track record of success in mission-critical, detail-oriented tasks
- High degree of demonstrated computer efficiency on both Macintosh and PC platforms
- Excellent listening, writing and interpersonal skills

**Makerhouse is a bespoke multi-disciplinary, creative production house. Built by combining**
**the best design-centric maker capability and production operations expertise. Our specialist center**
**of excellence has a globally connected footprint with locally integrated agency + client creative partnerships. As well as expanded partnerships across WPP to amplify our offering when needed.**

**We're one-part strategic production operations with best-in-class institutional expertise.**
**And one-part always-on content studio with special-ops design-centric makers and integrate