Fiona Carr

Experience

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  Elsevier Science

  Apr 1996 - Oct 1998

  Rights Assistant
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  Oxford University Press

  Oct 1998 - Jun 2010

  Director, UK Business Development and Rights

  From 1 Jan 2008 - July 2010 was in this post. Held several other positions at OUP, including:Head, Rights and New Business DevelopmentHead, Library Sales and Business Development

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  Alexander Street

  Aug 2010 - Jul 2015

  International Licensing Editor

  - Establishment and development of all international licensees relationships; identifying and acquiring high quality factual video, music and text content from a range of intellectual property rights holders (including TV broadcasters, distributors, publishers and music labels), for inclusion in Alexander Street's market-leading and awarding winning digital products.- Strong management of existing accounts with partners such as the BBC, National Film and Sound Archive, ABC Commercial and Journeyman TV, ensuring customer satisfaction with Alexander Street and enhaning their position as the leading educational distributor of digital content in the market- Development and management of bespoke Alexander Street products from initial concept to product launch including Engineering Case Studies Online.- Representation of Alexander Street at key international markets such as MIPCOM, MIPTV, DocWeek, NATPE, London and Frankfurt Book Fair's. Meeting and networking with existing and new partners to establish a solid customer base for content acquisition, as well as promoting and raising Alexander Street's profile in the educational sector. Show less

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  Springer Nature

  Oct 2015 - Jul 2016

  Rights and Permissions Manager

  Managed the Rights and Permissions team of Macmillan Education, a key part of the Global Education Division within Springer Nature. Was responsible for running a team that managed all incoming permissions for titles published by Macmillan Education, as well as all licensing of secondary rights to third parties.

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  IPR License

  Jul 2016 - Jan 2017

  Senior Sales Manager

  THE 'marketplace' for publishers to trade rights globally, IPR License is the first fully transactional rights and licensing marketplace within the publishing industry. My role is to lead all sales globally and create effective sales strategies that ensure maximum leverage of IPR's partnerships with publishers across the different sectors from trade, magazine to STM, scholarly and educational.

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  Ingenta

  Mar 2017 - Mar 2018

  My role as Manager, Key Accounts and Sales was to sell Ingenta Connect and Ingenta Open core services (hosting and pay-per-view) to new clients, in order to meet revenue targets. In addition to this, I had overall responsibility as the primary point of contact for a list of key accounts in terms of the relationship, revenue and service level.

  • Manager, Key Accounts and Sales

    Nov 2017 - Mar 2018

  • Account Manager

    Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
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  HighWire Press, Inc.

  Mar 2018 - Aug 2018

  Business Development Manager

  HighWire Press provides technology solutions for the global scholarly and academic publishing community through its innovative Open Platform. As Business Development Manager in the UK, my role was to engage and establish relationships with potential new publishing partners in the scholarly, financial, legal, regulatory and compliance, pharmaceutical/healthcare/medical sectors.

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  OCLC

  Aug 2018 - May 2023

  Sales Account Manager

  Established in 1967, OCLC is a global library member cooperative that provides shared technology services, original research and community programs for its membership and the library community at large. We are librarians, technologists, researchers, pioneers, leaders and learners. With thousands of library members in more than 100 countries, we come together as OCLC to make information more accessible and more useful.Because what is known must be shared.My role as Sales Account Manager, is to help develop and manage relationships with academics libraries in the South of England and Wales. Through doing this, we are able to increase awareness of the ways in which as a library member co-operative, OCLC can work with individual libraries and the UK library community more broadly to improve and streamline workflows and processes that will make a real difference in the day-to-day management of these key services within universities. Show less

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  Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)

  May 2023 - now

  Director, Ringgold Sales