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Job Title: Permissions Analyst

Location: Remote

Duration: 4+ Month Contract

Summary:

The Permission Analyst (Licensing Operations) plays a critical role in supporting the execution and governance of content licensing and permissions within a medical publishing environment. This position is responsible for the end-to-end processing of permission requests, ensuring timely fulfillment in alignment with service-level agreements and established licensing policies. The analyst maintains and validates accurate metadata, rights information, and transactional records across internal systems, contributing to the integrity and reliability of content access and distribution.

Working cross-functionally with editorial, sales, customer service, finance, and external partners, the Permission Analyst helps facilitate efficient content delivery while ensuring compliance with copyright, licensing agreements, and regulatory standards. The role supports rights management activities, including tracking permissions, assisting with alternative format and digital distribution requests, and maintaining audit-ready documentation.

This position also contributes to operational excellence by identifying discrepancies, resolving access and data issues, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives within licensing workflows and systems. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, while developing foundational expertise in medical publishing, content governance, and rights management

Support the process of regular communication with multiple providers on everyday issues as well as new copyright requirements that affect the company. Ensure seamless flow of key metadata between back-office systems and customer facing sites. Maintain content currency by ensuring that our journals and books are properly show on the multiple permission platforms we utilize. Identify and work to implement efficiencies with time and money across permission operations. Evaluate the overall operational function on non-standard problems, identify problems and or patterns to help create solutions. Communicate with internal groups as well as external vendors with critical business information. Serve as go to person on questions regarding process.

* Work closely with Journal and Book Publishing teams to:
* Support processes by which permission is granted on content we produce.
* Handle incoming permissions requests efficiently and in accordance with current permissions policy and fee structure.
* To maximize potential revenue for each permission request with effective negotiation skills.
* Work closely with partners and vendors to:
* Provide regular information on updates to our content as well as ensure the platforms we utilize are providing the services we need.
* Plan and execute a schedule of regular contacts with key platform providers
* Develop and implement a process to ensure our current backfile of books are properly represented on a platform
* Ensure timely and accurate dissemination of copyright updates to the team and company.
* Process manual requests from receipt to invoicing, ensuring that the revenue is properly allocated.
* Communicate with requesting clients daily to provide them with the rights needed for their request.
* Continue to review and adapt procedures that will reduce the turn-around time for each permission request.
* Support the finance team with permission revenue.
* Regular reporting of relationship status, contract status and new opportunities.

Experience:
* 1-2 years of experience
* Knowledge of the publishing world would be ideal; a permission / copyright knowledge would be a plus.
* Knowledge of MS Office Suite

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.