Rights executive, Penguin Random House Children's (12-month FTC)

Closing date for applications: Sunday 5th January at 11.59pm

Salary: Circa £30,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

Do you have experience in foreign book markets and an interest in children's book publishing?

We are looking to recruit a Rights Executive to join our world record-breaking team on a 12-month contract, from February 2025 through to February 2026. 

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.

Responsibilities

• Managing all sales into Turkey, Greece, Wales, and Israel
• Overseeing sales in various smaller markets across our exciting portfolio
• 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.

What you’ll bring

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

If this sounds like your next role, we’d love to hear from you.

Application instructions

Please apply with your CV and cover letter outlining why you are the right candidate for the role by 11:59pm on Sunday 5th January 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 happy to accommodate a reasonable notice period for the right candidate, but we are looking for someone to join the team as soon as possible (ideally during February 2025).

We expect interviews to take place across mid-late January 2025, and we expect we will invite you to interview in person at our Embassy Gardens office.

Please include in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.