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We are seeking a Rights Assistant to join the team selling rights in books across four of the Penguin Random House adult divisions on a permanent basis.
Reporting to the Head of Translation, you will provide key administrative support to the team that handles rights sales for our non-illustrated adult publishing at Penguin General, Penguin Press, Ebury and Cornerstone. Our list features leading authors in quality commercial and literary fiction, alongside nonfiction with a wide scope, spanning popular science and history, memoir and biography, personal development and wellbeing.
What you'll do
As Rights Assistant, you’ll take charge of a range of tasks, manage several projects at any one time and work to deadlines that enable the team to deliver a high quality of service to our customers. You’ll work on projects for many of our leading authors including Josie Silver and Philippa Perry and liaise with international publishers as well as different departments internally.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Preparing translation rights guides
- Negotiate, sell and supply illustration files to customers
- Negotiate and renew expired licences
- Provide administrative support, such as invoicing and briefing contracts, for Rights Manager and Head of Translation
- Mail out reference copies of foreign editions to authors
If you’re a fast learner with IT literacy and confidence using the Microsoft Office suite, you don’t need publishing experience to be considered for this role as we will provide the necessary training.
We are looking for an organised individual with precise attention to detail, the ability to manage a varied workload and to prioritise effectively. The role requires strong collaborative and communication skills as you will need to build strong relationships with existing and potential customers, as well as key stakeholders in-house including colleagues in Editorial, Production and Design.
If you’re interested in joining our Rights team and learning more about the role we play within the business, please apply with your CV and Cover Letter by midnight on Tuesday 8th February.
Salary: You‘ll start on £24,000. Expect a £1,000 increase on your first anniversary in this role and a further £1,000 on your second to reflect your growing contribution.
What you can expect from us
Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:
- 25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days
- Medical cover
- Life assurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Generous pension scheme
- Summer working hours (role dependent)
- Volunteering policy and charity matching
- Employee Assistance programme
- Mentoring programme
- Extended gender neutral parental leave
- 60% Discount on Company books
- Each site has trained mental health first aiders
- We plant a tree for every new employee to our business
Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.
As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we’re part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can’t take all eligible candidates to interview. We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at http://PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here: www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/applying-for-roles-with-a-disability
We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: http://booktradeentrysupport.org/
