Employer: Penguin Random House UK
Job level: ahead
Job location: London
Work mode: Hybrid (Remote/On Site)
Job salary: £30,000
Application deadline: April 27, 2025
Job description
We are looking to recruit a Rights Executive to join our world record-breaking team on a permanent basis. If you’re highly driven, ambitious, and looking for your next role in Rights, this could be for you.
Reporting to the Senior Rights Manager, you’ll be working for a team who publish a wide range of debut and award-winning authors and illustrators, including Stephen and Lucy Hawking, Femi Fadugba, Beth Lincoln, Helen Oxenbury, Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola, as well global brands such as Bluey, Spot and Peter Rabbit.
Key responsibilities:
• Managing all sales into Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Serbia and Domestic rights
• Managing global reprints for our picture book list, working with the reprint squad to deliver on ambitious growth plans
• Developing and consolidating new and existing business partnerships to support growth in Rights
• Representing the company at book fairs
• Undertaking business trips as and when required
We’d love it if you had…
This team represent a rapidly growing business area, so this is the perfect opportunity for a Rights Assistant looking for that next step, or an Executive looking for a fresh challenge. This would also be suitable for a Sales Assistant or similar, who has knowledge of the rights function.
Essential criteria:
• Thorough understanding of the principles of selling international rights
• Confident negotiator
• Collaborative team player
• Ability to work independently and take initiative
• Excellent communication and customer service skills
• Ability to sustain external relationships and proactively make new, business-savvy contacts
• Comfortable using internal systems such as Biblio
Employer details
We’re the UK’s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you’ll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.