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United Kingdom · Events and experiential marketing · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

Rights Management Manager

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  • Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
  • Direct reports3-5 reports
  • Reports toDirector, Business & Legal Affairs
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Head of Rights & Clearances · Senior Manager, Business Affairs (Events) · Partnerships & IP Manager · Commercial Rights Lead

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The qualifications matched to this job

AIM Qualifications Level 3 Diploma in Media Creation, Production and Craft Support AIM Qualifications · Level 3 · covers 4 of 9 standards
RSL Level 3 Certificate in the Creative Music Industry RSL Awards Ltd · Level 3 · covers 4 of 9 standards
RSL Level 3 Extended Certificate in the Creative Music Industry RSL Awards Ltd · Level 3 · covers 3 of 9 standards
RSL Level 3 Diploma in the Creative Music Industry RSL Awards Ltd · Level 3 · covers 3 of 9 standards
RSL Level 3 Extended Diploma For Music Practitioners RSL Awards Ltd · Level 3 · covers 2 of 9 standards
RSL Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma for Music Practitioners RSL Awards Ltd · Level 3 · covers 2 of 9 standards

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The units you would start with

Identifying and Negotiating Copyright Issues for a Broadcast Production AIM Qualifications Level 3 Diploma in Media Creation, Production and Craft Support
Music Publishing RSL Level 3 Certificate in the Creative Music Industry
Copyright In The Music Industry RSL Level 3 Extended Diploma For Music Practitioners

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  1. Identifying and Negotiating Copyright Issues for a Broadcast Production AIM Qualifications · covers 4 of 9 standards Level 3
  2. Music Publishing RSL Awards Ltd · covers 4 of 9 standards Level 3
  3. Copyright In The Music Industry RSL Awards Ltd · covers 2 of 9 standards Level 3
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2AI and this work

Will AI change your work as a Rights Management Manager?

Nobody can say exactly how. Here is what this job is being asked for next, and where to start.

The new skills this role is being asked for

  • AI-Powered Contract Review & Automation
  • Web3 & Metaverse Rights Management
Why each one is rising

The future skills this job leans on

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3What this role really is

A rights management manager checks that content, events and partnerships can legally be used, and that deals hold up under scrutiny. The role sits at the centre of event delivery and commercial decisions, managing what has been paid for and spotting legal risks before they cause problems.

4What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Icertis (or similar enterprise CLM) Strategic

Leading the selection, enterprise implementation, and ongoing optimisation of our Contract Lifecycle Management platform. You'll integrate it with Salesforce and Finance systems to create a single source of truth for all contractual obligations, defining the strategy for its use.

Bynder (or similar enterprise DAM) Architect

Developing the enterprise-wide Digital Asset Management strategy. You'll make the business case for integrating the DAM with production, marketing, and archival systems to maximise asset ROI and ensure all assets have correct rights metadata.

FADEL Rights Cloud (or similar Rights Management Platform) Strategic

Owning the relationship with the platform vendor. You'll customise the platform to model complex multi-party rights agreements and sponsorship tiers, ensuring it meets our evolving business needs and provides accurate royalty calculations.

Asana/Smartsheet (Enterprise Level) Strategic

Mandating and standardising the use of these tools across departments to ensure end-to-end visibility on all rights-related activations. You'll design the templates and workflows that your team and other departments use to track deliverables.

Confluence/Notion (Knowledge Management) Strategic

Establishing the communication and documentation protocols for the entire Business Affairs function. You'll ensure consistency and reduce tribal knowledge by overseeing the creation and maintenance of a central, accessible knowledge base for your team and broader organisation.

Tableau/Power BI (Advanced Dashboards) Strategic

Presenting dynamic dashboards to the C-suite that visualise rights availability, compliance risks, and sponsorship fulfillment status. You'll use these tools to drive strategic decisions and demonstrate your team's impact.

Anaplan (Financial Modelling) Strategic

Using Anaplan to model the financial impact of major media rights deals and forecast long-term licensing liabilities. This helps inform strategic investment decisions and manage our overall financial exposure.

5What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing in Where you are nowThe step above
Hiring & Team Structure No authority. Supports interview scheduling. Provides feedback on candidates. Recommends candidates for junior roles. May conduct initial interviews. No final hiring decision. Recommends final candidates for junior/mid-level roles. Designs interview process. Consults on team structure changes.
Budget Allocation (Operational) No authority. Tracks expenses against project budgets. Identifies potential cost savings. Provides input on project budget needs. Manages project-specific budgets (e.g., £5K-£10K for a campaign). Recommends vendor spend.
Contract Terms & Negotiations No authority. Drafts standard clauses from templates. Tracks negotiation status. Negotiates standard terms for low-risk agreements (e.g., stock photo licenses). Escalates non-standard requests. Leads negotiations for moderately complex agreements (e.g., smaller talent deals, music sync licenses). Consults Legal on high-risk clauses.
Process & System Design Follows established processes. Provides feedback on usability. Identifies inefficiencies in current processes. Proposes minor improvements. Designs and implements new workflows for specific projects. Develops training materials for new processes.

6How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, and what is not on it. The hard targets, how often each is actually looked at, and the quiet signals that never reach a dashboard.

Cost Avoidance & Savings
This is about how much money we *don't* spend on legal fees, unexpected licensing costs, or penalties due to rights infringements. It's also about negotiating better deals.
Target · Achieve £500K+ in demonstrable cost avoidance annually through proactive compliance, smart negotiation, and efficient process management.

Identifying a potential £150K fine for an unlicensed music track before it goes live, or renegotiating a talent usage fee down by £50K through clever structuring.

Revenue Enablement (Sponsorship & Media)
Your team's ability to structure and secure the necessary rights that directly allow our sales teams to close major sponsorship and media deals.
Target · Directly enable £5M+ in new sponsorship and media revenue by providing clear, compliant, and commercially viable rights packages.

Working with the sales team to create a multi-territory media rights package for a major festival that secures a £2M broadcast deal, or defining sponsor tiers that unlock an additional £1M in partnership revenue.

Compliance Breach Rate
The number of times we've accidentally (or not so accidentally) used an asset, image, or piece of music without the correct licence or outside the agreed terms.
Target · Maintain a breach rate of less than 0.5% across all major events and campaigns, aiming for zero critical breaches.

Out of 1,000 assets used in a campaign, catching 4 instances of incorrect usage before external partners notice, leading to a 0.4% breach rate.

Contract Execution Cycle Time
The average time it takes from initial request to fully executed contract for standard rights agreements (e.g., talent, music sync).
Target · Reduce average execution time by 15% year-over-year, aiming for 90% of standard contracts signed within 10 business days.

Streamlining the approval process for 50 talent agreements, reducing the average signature time from 15 days to 12 days, saving significant time for the production team.

Strategic Counsel & Influence
How effectively you and your team are seen as trusted advisors, not just the 'department of no'. It's about proactive guidance, not just reactive problem-solving.
  • You're regularly invited to early-stage creative and commercial planning meetings. Senior leaders seek your input before finalising major campaign concepts or partnership proposals. Your team's training sessions are well-attended and receive positive feedback.
Team Development & Empowerment
How well you're building and nurturing your team, making sure they're growing, feel supported, and can handle more complex issues independently.
  • Your direct reports are taking on more challenging negotiations. They're actively mentoring junior staff. You're seeing a reduction in escalations for routine issues. Your team's engagement scores are consistently high.
Process Optimisation & Scalability
Your ability to continuously improve our rights management workflows, making them more efficient, less prone to error, and able to handle increasing volumes as we grow.
  • You've implemented new CLM workflows that cut approval times. Your team's documentation is comprehensive and widely used. You've identified and automated manual tasks, freeing up team capacity. You're always looking for ways to make things smoother, not just patching holes.

7Would you like it

Both sides. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Protecting the Organisation

You get a genuine sense of satisfaction from identifying and mitigating risks, knowing that your meticulous work is safeguarding the company's financial health and reputation. It's about being the ultimate gatekeeper.

Successfully renegotiating a tricky clause in a multi-million pound sponsorship deal, saving the company from a significant future liability.

Building & Optimising Systems

You love taking a messy, manual process and turning it into a streamlined, automated workflow. The idea of creating a 'single source of truth' for all rights data really excites you.

Implementing a new CLM workflow that cuts contract approval times by 30% and significantly reduces human error.

Developing & Leading a Team

You thrive on mentoring your direct reports, seeing them grow, and empowering them to handle increasingly complex challenges. You enjoy building a high-performing, knowledgeable team.

Guiding a junior specialist through their first complex music licensing negotiation, seeing them successfully close the deal and grow their confidence.

What frustrates people
  • Being seen as the 'Department of No' by creative teams who don't understand the legal risks involved.
  • Cleaning up the mess after the sales team promises a sponsor rights we don't own or can't legally grant.
  • Last-minute changes to campaigns (e.g., changing a key musical track 72 hours before launch) that trigger frantic, weekend-long scrambles to clear new rights.
  • Spending a significant chunk of your time chasing approvals from various stakeholders across legal, finance, and marketing.
  • Discovering a regional marketing team has been using an unlicensed photo for six months, forcing an expensive retroactive licensing negotiation.
  • Having to repeatedly explain to senior leadership why a 'simple' request is actually a multi-million pound contractual violation.
  • Dealing with 'asset anarchy'—receiving thousands of unlabelled files from an event and being expected to know the usage rights for every single one.
What this role does not give you
  • A quiet, predictable routine. Events are inherently unpredictable.
  • Constant creative freedom. Your role is about managing the boundaries, not setting the initial creative vision.
  • Immediate, visible 'wins' every day. Many of your successes will be 'non-events' – problems you prevented that never materialised.

8Who you work with

Your work directly impacts our ability to execute events, protect our brand, and generate revenue. You're essentially preventing future headaches and unlocking commercial opportunities by meticulously managing our contractual commitments and intellectual property. Get it right, and we save millions; get it wrong, and we could be facing lawsuits or losing key partnerships. It's that simple, and that high-stakes.

Inside the business
  • Marketing & Brand Teams (they'll want to use everything, everywhere, always)
  • Event Production & Operations (they need to know what they can and can't build/display)
  • Sales & Partnerships (they're selling the rights, you're making sure we can deliver them)
  • Legal Counsel (you're their first line of defence, they'll be your escalation point)
  • Finance (they'll want to know what everything costs and where the revenue comes from)
Outside the business
  • Talent Agencies & Artist Management (negotiating usage for performers)
  • Music Publishers & Labels (clearing those crucial tracks)
  • Sponsors & Brand Partners (ensuring we deliver on their contractual entitlements)
  • Venue Operators & Suppliers (understanding their IP rules)
  • External Law Firms (when things get really tricky or novel)

9What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven experience (10+ years) in a dedicated rights management, business affairs, or legal operations role within the entertainment, media, or events industry.
  • Demonstrable experience managing a team of 3+ individuals, including performance management and career development.
  • Extensive experience leading complex contract negotiations (e.g., multi-million pound deals, high-profile talent).
  • Deep, practical understanding of intellectual property law (copyright, trademark, right of publicity) as applied to events and content.
  • Expert-level proficiency with at least one enterprise-grade CLM (e.g., Icertis, Ironclad) and DAM (e.g., Bynder, Canto) platform.
  • A track record of designing and implementing scalable processes and systems that improve efficiency and reduce risk.
  • Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to translate complex legal concepts for diverse audiences.

10What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced CLM & DAM Integration

It's no longer enough for CLM and DAM systems to exist in silos. Future success means seamless integration with Salesforce (for sales data), Finance (for royalty payments), and Production (for asset creation). You'll be the one driving this integration strategy.

API Management & Data Flows · Single Source of Truth (SSOT) · Automated Compliance Workflows

  • This month: Review our current CLM and DAM integrations. Identify key data points that aren't flowing seamlessly.
  • Next quarter: Work with IT and relevant vendors to map out potential integration points and scope out a pilot project.
  • Within 6 months: Lead a project to implement a new integration, focusing on a high-impact area like automated royalty reporting.
  • Within 12 months: Develop a multi-year roadmap for full CLM/DAM ecosystem integration, presenting the business case to leadership.

Quick win: Identify one manual data transfer between systems that could be automated with a simple Zapier or Power Automate flow. Get it done this week.

Predictive Risk Analytics for Rights

Moving beyond reactive compliance, you'll use data to predict where rights issues are most likely to occur. This means analysing historical data on breaches, negotiation outcomes, and content usage to proactively identify high-risk areas and implement preventative measures.

Data Modelling for Risk Scoring · Trend Analysis & Early Warning Systems · Scenario Planning & Impact Assessment

  • This month: Work with a data analyst to pull historical data on rights breaches, legal spend, and negotiation outcomes.
  • Next quarter: Start building simple dashboards in Tableau or Power BI to visualise key risk indicators and trends.
  • Within 6 months: Develop a 'risk scoring' methodology for new campaigns or partnerships, using available data.
  • Within 12 months: Implement a regular reporting cadence for predictive risk insights, informing senior leadership on potential future challenges.

Quick win: Create a simple spreadsheet to track all rights-related legal costs and their root causes. Just starting to collect this data is a huge first step.

11Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attending industry conferences and workshops focused on intellectual property, media law, and event management (e.g., MIPCOM, SXSW, Legal Geek).
  • Subscribing to legal tech and entertainment law publications to stay current on emerging trends and regulatory changes.
  • Actively participating in professional associations related to IP, licensing, or legal operations.
  • Mentoring junior professionals in the field, as teaching often solidifies your own understanding and leadership skills.
  • Pursuing further education in areas like digital asset management, blockchain for IP, or advanced negotiation tactics.

12The rising capability

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI-Powered Contract Review & Automation

AI tools are getting incredibly good at scanning contracts, extracting key terms, and even identifying anomalies. This isn't just about saving time; it's about drastically reducing human error and freeing up your team for more strategic work. Competitors are already using this to speed up deal cycles and improve compliance.

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Legal
  • Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection
  • Automated Workflow Integration
  • Ethical AI & Bias in Legal Tech

Web3 & Metaverse Rights Management

As events increasingly blend physical and digital, and as virtual worlds (metaverse) become new platforms for experiential marketing, managing IP, digital assets, and user-generated content in these spaces will become critical. We'll need to understand rights for NFTs, virtual performances, and digital ownership.

  • Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) & Digital Ownership
  • Virtual Performance & Avatar Rights
  • User-Generated Content (UGC) in Web3
  • Smart Contracts for Rights Management

13What you’ll use

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Sponsorship Fulfillment & Tiering
  • Intellectual Property (IP) Frameworks
  • Talent & Union Agreements
  • Media Rights & Distribution
  • Music Licensing & Clearance Strategy
  • Risk Mitigation & Compliance Auditing

14The pathway

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Senior Rights Management Specialist (L3/L4) at a larger organisation

    3-5 years in a senior specialist or lead role

    Skills to master

    • Moving from owning specific workstreams to managing multiple projects, mentoring others, and beginning to shape processes. You'd have handled complex negotiations and managed significant compliance risks.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully led rights management for a major, multi-faceted event or campaign end-to-end.
    • Consistently identified and mitigated significant legal risks, saving demonstrable costs.
    • Demonstrated leadership potential by mentoring junior team members or leading small project teams.
    • Proactively designed and implemented process improvements that enhanced team efficiency.
  2. 2

    Legal Counsel (IP/Commercial) at a smaller firm or in-house team

    5-8 years post-qualification experience

    Skills to master

    • Translating theoretical legal knowledge into practical, commercial solutions for a business. You'd need to gain hands-on experience with the operational side of rights management, not just the legal advice.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Provided direct, actionable legal advice on IP and commercial contracts to business stakeholders.
    • Developed a keen understanding of the commercial drivers behind legal agreements.
    • Expressed a strong desire to move into an operational leadership role, building and managing a team.
    • Gained exposure to the event or media industry, understanding its unique challenges.
  3. 3

    Senior Manager, Business Affairs at a production company or media agency

    4-6 years in a similar management capacity

    Skills to master

    • Adapting your existing business affairs expertise to the specific nuances of experiential marketing and live events. You'd need to understand the faster pace and often more complex, multi-party nature of event rights.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Managed a team responsible for rights clearances and contract negotiation for content production.
    • Demonstrated strong stakeholder management skills across creative, production, and legal teams.
    • Proven ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives in a fast-moving environment.
    • A genuine interest and some prior exposure to the events or experiential marketing sector.

15Where this role leads

The long view: This work can lead into senior legal, rights or commercial roles. Examples include vice president of global rights and commercial affairs, chief business officer or chief revenue officer, and head of legal and compliance.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Rights Management Manager is actually changing.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

Also named as a next step, with no page in the catalogue yet:

  • Head of Commercial Partnerships (L5/L6 equivalent)

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Identifying and Negotiating Copyright Issues for a Broadcast Production, worked against Rights Management Manager.

Identifying and Negotiating Copyright Issues for a Broadcast Production Level 3

Applied to your work in Rights Management Manager

The objective of this unit is to enable learners to identify and resolve copyright issues in broadcast productions. Learners will understand copyright law, fair use, and licensing agreements, and will be able to negotiate permissions and agreements to ensure compliance.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time.

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Rights Management Manager
  • Sponsorship Fulfillment & Tiering
  • Intellectual Property (IP) Frameworks
  • Talent & Union Agreements
  • Media Rights & Distribution
  • Music Licensing & Clearance Strategy
  • Risk Mitigation & Compliance Auditing
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

16The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Rights Management Manager is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Director, Business & Legal Affairs (L6)

    3-5 years in the Rights Management Manager role

    This is the natural next step, moving from managing a function to shaping the strategic direction of the entire Business & Legal Affairs department. You'd be reporting directly to the C-suite.

    • Negotiating multi-year, multi-million pound media rights and title sponsorship deals at an executive level.
    • Overseeing broader legal compliance (beyond just rights) for the business unit.
    • Developing and managing a larger, more diverse team, potentially including other legal/business affairs functions.
    • Shaping the company's overall risk profile and governance framework.

  2. Head of Commercial Partnerships (L5/L6 equivalent)

    3-5 years in the Rights Management Manager role

    This is a lateral move into a more purely commercial role, using your deep understanding of rights to drive new revenue streams and strategic partnerships. It's less about legal protection and more about commercial exploitation.

    • Identifying and structuring new commercial opportunities based on our IP portfolio.
    • Leading sales cycles for major sponsorship and media deals from a commercial perspective.
    • Developing innovative pricing and packaging models for rights and assets.
    • Managing key strategic partner relationships to maximise long-term value.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, rights management can be incredibly time-consuming, especially with the sheer volume of contracts and assets involved in events. But what if you could offload the tedious, repetitive tasks and focus on the strategic, high-impact work? That's exactly what AI can do for you and your team.

We're not talking about replacing human judgment; we're talking about giving you a powerful co-pilot. Imagine AI handling the initial grunt work of contract analysis, compliance checks, and even drafting routine communications. This isn't science fiction; it's happening now, and it's how you'll lead your team to be more efficient and proactive.

Contract Term Extraction & Analysis

Use AI-powered contract analysis tools (like those integrated with Icertis or Ironclad) to automatically scan new sponsorship, talent, and media agreements. It'll instantly identify and extract key clauses like Term, Territory, Exclusivity, and Deliverables, populating your CLM and flagging any unusual terms for your review. This means less manual data entry and quicker risk assessment.

Proactive Compliance Monitoring

Deploy AI image and audio recognition tools to continuously scan social media, broadcast streams, and partner websites. It'll automatically flag any unauthorised use of event logos, footage, or music, giving you a real-time dashboard of potential infringements. You'll move from reactive firefighting to proactive prevention, catching issues before they escalate.

Intelligent Precedent & Fee Research

Leverage an AI assistant to rapidly research industry standards for licensing fees, union scale rates, or legal precedents for specific contract language. Instead of hours of manual searching, you'll get concise summaries and relevant data points, giving you and your team a significant edge in negotiations and strategic planning.

Automated Stakeholder Communication

Use AI to generate concise, plain-language summaries of complex legal agreements for non-legal stakeholders (e.g., 'Here are the 5 key things the creative team needs to know about this talent contract'). It can also draft initial responses to common internal clearance queries or even help your team structure their negotiation emails, ensuring clarity and consistency.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Rights Management Manager?

Common routes in include Senior Rights Management Specialist (L3/L4) at a larger organisation (3-5 years in a senior specialist or lead role), Legal Counsel (IP/Commercial) at a smaller firm or in-house team (5-8 years post-qualification experience) and Senior Manager, Business Affairs at a production company or media agency (4-6 years in a similar management capacity). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Rights Management Manager progress to?

This role can lead on to Director, Business & Legal Affairs (3-5 years in the Rights Management Manager role) and Head of Commercial Partnerships (3-5 years in the Rights Management Manager role), depending on the skills you build.

What new skills matter most for a Rights Management Manager?

Increasingly, AI-Powered Contract Review & Automation and Web3 & Metaverse Rights Management. These are the skills our record of this role lists as growing.

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17Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

 More jobs in events and experiential marketing

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.
If you leave this industry

Skills in IP, commercial contracts and large-scale event operations transfer well to other media companies, sports organisations, music labels, film studios, and brand marketing departments that run experiential campaigns.

This role profile is © 2026 Growth Engineering Technologies Ltd. Built from UK occupational standards and regulated qualification data, and written for Zavmo.

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