Rights Sales Associate

Rights Sales Associate

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to gain B2B sales experience within Publishing? Are you organised, outgoing and keen to learn more about the role rights plays within our business?

The Role

The Penguin Random House Rights teams help our authors go global.  We work to sell PRH UK’s books into other markets and channels including North American rights: licensing our books to US and Canadian publishers for publication in North America.

Translation rights: selling rights to translate our UK titles into other languages.

Dramatisation rights: creating opportunities to turn our books into films, television programs and theatre productions.

As Rights Sales Associate, you’ll take charge of a wide range of administrative and sales tasks to support a fast-paced team, as well as work on group-wide projects. You will 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 rights projects for many of our leading authors and will liaise with a variety of internal colleagues as well as connecting with key customers.

Key responsibilities:

• Produce regular analysis and/or presentations of rights business

• Help to organise rights events such as author receptions or virtual webinars

• Provide administrative support, such as invoicing, processing contracts, creating reports and minute-taking

• Provide sales support including book fair scheduling, travel booking, expenses, loading of deals on to database

• Negotiate, sell and supply production files to customers

• Prepare sales material in advance of sales trips

• Negotiate and renew expired licences

• Work collaboratively with other assistants in the team to improve ways of working

What you’ll bring

Essential criteria:

• Passion for books

• Fast learner with confident IT and data skills (MS Office Excel/Word/Outlook)

• Able to manage a varied workload and prioritise effectively.

• Detail-oriented

• Strong organisation skills

• Confident in networking and building relationships

• Demonstrable understanding of managing multiple stakeholders at varying seniorities

• Demonstrable communication skills

• Proven written ability showcased through your application.

What you will learn

The Rights Sales Associate role provides a fantastic grounding in the business of publishing. Working on some of the biggest names in fiction and non-fiction, you'll begin to acquire the key skills required for a successful career in Rights and beyond, including negotiation, selling, teamwork, publishing systems, and much more.

Disability Confident

If you have opted into our disability confident scheme, above is the essential criteria you must meet to be considered for our interview scheme. Please note, there may be occasions where the volume of applicants means we can’t take all eligible candidates to interview.

Application instructions

Please apply with your CV and cover letter outlining why you are the right candidate for the role by 11:59pm on 27th February 2025.

• Please ensure you include a cover letter, as it is a crucial part of our assessment process. The cover letter offers an opportunity to show how your experience and interests align with the role requirements. Typically, we expect the cover letter to be no more than one or two pages in length.

• Please note we are looking for someone to join the team as soon as possible, but we are also happy to accommodate a reasonable notice period for the right candidate.

• We anticipate a three-stage interview process which will include a virtual first-stage interview, an in-person second stage interview, and an informal chat for the final stage. We are happy to discuss this further with you throughout the recruitment process.

Salary

£27,500 plus benefits.

What you can expect from us

Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

• Financial – discounted shopping, season ticket loan, rental deposit loan

• Wellbeing – healthcare cash plan, employee assistance, gym loan

• Lifestyle – taste card, tech scheme, free and discounted books

For our full benefits list please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/what-we-offer/

Hybrid working

While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role we expect a minimum of three days per week working in the office.

About Penguin

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.

The recruitment process

You can read about our recruitment process at https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/how-we-hire/

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. The essential criteria for this role are listed as part of the ‘What you’ll bring’ section. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: The Random House Group Limited 

Country: United Kingdom 

State/Region: London 

City: London 

Postal Code: SW11 7BW 

Job ID: 277785