Anti-Piracy Manager, India

Anti-Piracy Manager, IndiaJob Title: Anti-Piracy Manager Location: New Delhi Hybrid Working Model About Springer Nature Group Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 180 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities – enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow. Visit group.springernature.com and follow @SpringerNature /@SpringerNatureGroup About the Brand Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative information, products and services. Springer has one of the strongest STM and HSS eBook collections and archives, as well as a comprehensive range of hybrid and open access journals. Visit springer.com and follow @Springer1842 About the Role The Anti-Piracy Team is part of the General Counsel’s Office, it is charged with the global protection of Springer Nature Group content and assets against piracy. The team is currently based in London, UK, and Shanghai, China. This role will be reporting into Head of Global Anti-Piracy. This new role has been created to address the piracy concerns relating to India. Responsibilities: • To design, implement and manage India anti-piracy strategy in consultation with business partners and Head of Global Anti-Piracy. Strategy to be based upon a deep understanding of the business product lines and sales models, business priorities and significance of threats (including future ones). • To implement and manage anti-piracy investigations, evidencing and documentation for administrative, civil and criminal actions in India. Engaging with enforcement authorities where necessary. • To continually assess business threats on all major Indian marketplace and platform sites (starting with a dedicated project targeting infringing sales on Amazon.in) and to continually adapt anti-piracy responses and mitigations to these by developing and nurturing relationships with brand/abuse managers on the platforms and at their hosts with regular meetings. • To gain privileged access to abuse/brand protection tools and optimize the use and management of these, as well as asking for proactive improvements, privileged access and assistance from the platform providers. • Tracing marketplace infringement back to dedicated websites owned by the sellers in question and then following the money trail and identifying physical locations. Where required engaging with enforcement and/or government authorities to highlight issues and concerns, and to escalate priority cases. • To represent Springer Nature on any existing regional publishing and/or cross industry anti-piracy initiatives, and to look at setting up, joining and or contributing to any new such groups. To work within these groups to share knowledge, conduct joint actions, and aid local lobbying etc • To inform and/or assist on global trade body enforcement groups as required when there is an Indian connection and/or associated regional subgroup e.g. STM ETF, PA l

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