field_remote_option

field_job_employment_type

job_industry

field_job_occupational_field_parents_all

field_job_experience

job_organization_name

Closing date for applications: 29 September 2025Salary: £30,000 - £35,000Location: London, UK (hybrid - minimum 3 days per week on-site) Help shape the future of a global creative studio! Use your passion for animation and storytelling to connect bold ideas with leading brands across the UK and Europe.Nexus Studios is seeking a motivated, confident, and creative new business development executive to join our dynamic team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a self-starting individual with a genuine passion for animation, technology and filmmaking to play a pivotal role in the growth of our studio.Working in close collaboration with the lead executive producer for branded content, you will be instrumental in executing our new business strategy. Your primary focus will be on forging strong connections and securing opportunities with leading advertising agencies and brands across the UK and Europe. This will involve both travelling to potential clients and creating compelling reasons for them to visit our studio.We are looking for someone who is a true ambassador for our studio. You should be genuinely interested in filmmaking, with a specific focus on the power of animation to create compelling brand stories. You will be responsible for representing our talented roster of directors and the unique creative spirit of our studio in a way that is both authentic and inspiring. Responsibilities<ul><li>Strategy &amp; outreach: work alongside the lead executive producer to actively execute the new business strategy, identifying and targeting key advertising agencies, brands, and creative contacts in the UK and European markets</li><li>Client visits &amp; screenings: proactively organise and conduct screenings to showcase our latest work, travelling to the offices of brands and agencies to present our portfolio in person with members of the Nexus Studios team</li><li>Studio events &amp; hosting: plan, promote, and host engaging events, talks, and screenings at our studio, creating must-attend experiences that attract potential leads and immerse them in our creative environment</li><li>Relationship building: forge and nurture new relationships through proactive outreach, networking, and attendance at industry events, social activities, screenings, and festivals</li><li>Represent the studio: act as a primary point of contact for new business, able to articulately and passionately discuss our work, our directors' styles, and the studio's capabilities in a compelling and authentic manner</li><li>Lead management: diligently collate and manage all incoming new business enquiries, gleaning and recording pertinent data to track success and inform future strategy</li><li>Marketing materials: working with the new business and design teams, create and curate exceptional new business materials, including tailored presentations, credentials decks, and email campaigns to send to prospective clients. Ensure all materials are of the highest design quality and effectively showcase our brand</li><li>Market intelligence: keep your finger on the pulse of the advertising and animation industry, monitoring trends, award-winning work, and identifying new opportunities and potential creative partnerships</li><li>Idea generation: proactively contribute ideas for new business initiatives, marketing approaches, and ways to connect with our target audience</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Proven experience in a business development, sales, or account management role, ideally within the creative, advertising, or production industry</li><li>A demonstrable network of contacts within UK and/or European advertising agencies and brands is highly advantageous</li><li>An authentic passion for and knowledge of animation and the advertising landscape</li><li>Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills; you must be a natural people person, confident in building rapport with individuals at all levels</li><li>A keen eye for design and quality, with experience in creating high-end presentation materials (familiarity with Google Suite or similar is a plus)</li><li>Outstanding organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple leads and projects simultaneously</li><li>Proficiency in customer relationship management (CRM) software and data management</li><li>Motivated &amp; self-starting: You don't wait to be told what to do. You are proactive, driven, and constantly seeking new opportunities</li><li>Confident &amp; personable: You are a natural networker who is comfortable striking up conversations and building genuine connections</li><li>Creative &amp; passionate: You are genuinely excited by great creative work and can speak about it with infectious enthusiasm</li><li>Full of ideas: You are an innovative thinker who can contribute fresh perspectives to our business development efforts</li><li>A true team player: You thrive in a collaborative environment and understand the importance of working closely with the creative and production teams</li></ul> BenefitsWhat we can offer:&nbsp;<ul><li>Holiday leave increasing with each year's service by 1 day up to 28 days</li><li>Flexible working practices</li><li>Additional gifted days off between Christmas and New Year</li><li>Option to purchase 5 extra days holiday per year</li><li>Work from anywhere in the world for 2 weeks</li><li>Worldwide travel insurance for you and your family</li><li>Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave and pay</li><li>Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)</li><li>Cycle 2 Work scheme</li><li>Season travel ticket loan</li><li>Perkbox &amp; BHN Extras</li><li>Eyecare contributions</li><li>Sabbatical</li></ul> Nexus Studios is proud to work with extraordinary talent as an equal opportunity employer. We embrace individuals of all backgrounds regardless of gender, race, age, abilities or sexual preferences. Our recruitment process is merit-based, ensuring fair treatment to every applicant. Nexus Studios is committed to building and maintaining an inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Nexus Studios

New business development executive

Closing date for applications: 2 September 2025Salary: up to £27,000 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits Are you an enthusiastic team player with excellent communication skills and commercial awareness?We are looking for a sales assistant to join our busy mass market, non-traditional, B2B sales &amp; special sales channel within the DK UK sales department, and be a key member of our team.Duties will include full administrative support to the head of the channel, one sales manager and two key account managers with a range of tasks, including meeting preparation involving liaising with internal departments to secure materials, gathering and ordering samples and putting together presentations using ESK, PowerPoint and Google Slides. Responsibilities<ul><li>Daily order processing including communication with our customer service and warehouse teams</li><li>Completing title submissions grids</li><li>Running sales reports using Business Objects, SAP and Nielsen Bookscan</li><li>Collating marketing and PR information</li><li>Responding to customer communication, monitoring competitor activity, and other tasks to enable the team to achieve the channel sales targets</li><li>The ability to prioritise a varied and demanding workload is essential</li></ul>The role is also responsible for management of the sales inbox and ad hoc small sales, so we are looking for someone proficient at dealing with customers face to face, on screen and on the phone, with excellent written and verbal presentation skills. Knowledge, skills and responsibilitiesThe role requires someone who can demonstrate&nbsp;a confident, positive and professional approach in managing relationships with key colleagues across all DK departments and with a variety of external contacts at all levels of business.We are looking for someone who is highly organised with a can-do attitude, good system skills, a strong eye for detail and the ability to problem-solve, multi-task and stick to deadlines. If you have a passion for publishing, great relationship building experience, are a good team player and are commercially aware and driven then this could be the role for you. Additional informationWe have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our people, some of which are:<ul><li>25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one, plus bank holidays</li><li>Generous pension scheme</li><li>Volunteering policy and charity matching</li><li>Employee assistance programme</li><li>60% discount on company books</li><li>Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership</li><li>Flex Fridays (1pm Finish*)</li><li>Shopping discounts</li><li>Up to 30 days remote working from abroad* (*Subject to certain criteria being met.)</li><li>And we plant a tree for every new employee to our business</li></ul>DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working weekly from home and in DK’s office.The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade, but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews or undertaking internships. For more information, visit&nbsp;<a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a> DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background. DK is proud to announce that we have adopted The Halo Code. DK is a member of the disability confident scheme. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Dorling KIndersley

DK Publishing

Sales assistant - DK UK sales

Closing date for applications: 3 September 2025Salary: £35,000 - £36,750Department/team: DevelopmentResponsible to: Head of philanthropy and individual givingContract: PermanentLocation: Mix of home working and from The Old Vic, 103 The Cut, London, SE1 8NB (min 3 office days)Hours: Full-Time - 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday. The Old Vic offers the ability to work these flexibly under the guidelines in our Hybrid Working policy. Additional hours may be necessary in order to fulfil the requirements of the post.Direct reports: Individual giving officer Play a key role in fundraising at one of London's most iconic theatres, leading individual giving programmes and helping raise millions!The role will support the development team to successfully raise between £3.5-4 million annually through fundraising, in addition to a concurrent £19.25m capital campaign. The successful candidate will efficiently manage the day-to-day running of The Old Vic’s individual giving scheme, reporting to the head of philanthropy and individual giving and working with the individual giving officer to implement and carry out a yearly strategic plan to retain and increase support across all levels of membership and wider areas of giving.You will be working in the development department which fundraises for The Old Vic Theatre Trust 2000, a registered charity. Its aim is to raise voluntary funds for the theatre from individuals, companies and charitable trusts and foundations, as well as through special fundraising events. The Old Vic Trust receives no government subsidy and is reliant on fundraising and ticket sales for its annual income. ResponsibilitiesIndividual giving<ul><li>Contribute to developing a strategic plan for individual giving including membership and small to medium sized donations across all giving channels.</li><li>Working in tandem with the senior philanthropy manager, manage prospect lists and collaborate on new prospect pipelines to maximise individual giving income across both memberships and philanthropy</li><li>Assume responsibility for The Old Vic’s philanthropic individual giving membership scheme, OV Together.</li><li>Retain and increase support by delivering excellent stewardship, including delivery of benefits and events, and communication with donors.</li><li>Generate and convert new donor prospects in order to meet and exceed agreed annual individual giving targets of 1.25 to £1.5 million annually to contribute to the overall development team target.</li><li>Line manage the individual giving officer, monitoring key performance indicators and objectives to ensure that targets are met.</li></ul>Administration<ul><li>Oversee lists and draft communications going out to individual supporters, including season announcements, updates and invitations and segmenting mailing lists when necessary.</li><li>Oversee ticket bookings and catering reservations for supporters and to innovate time-saving new processes for automating bookings and reservations.</li><li>Ensure membership collateral is regularly updated to deadlines.</li><li>Ensure database records are updated with donations, research notes, memberships and event attendance.</li><li>Monitor progress against targets, ensuring fundraising costs stay within budgeted expenditure and Gift Aid restrictions.</li><li>Devise and with input from the events team maintain a system for accurately logging and tracking costs incurred for delivering membership benefits in line with HMRC and Gift Aid guidelines.</li><li>Ensure that all data complies with procedures for data integrity (e.g. Gift Aid, GDPR and PCI compliance).</li><li>Oversee the processing of monthly and annual Direct Debits by the Individual Giving Officer.</li><li>Support the administration of the American Associates of The Old Vic membership.</li></ul>Prospecting and new support<ul><li>Identify new routes, channels and audiences to promote other ways of giving amongst existing Old Vic contacts, our database and new prospects.</li><li>Innovate and implement new fundraising projects, such as Tap to Donate scheme, and create supporting documents (e.g. case for support and rebrand of membership scheme).</li><li>Use data analysis to track membership trends and prospecting, with support from the individual giving officer, to inform strategy and cultivation efforts for upgrading and recruitment.</li><li>Identify opportunities to further develop relationships with our existing supporters (e.g. cross-sell) and feed this into strategic plans for individual giving.</li><li>Support the senior development operations manager on the maintenance of a team-wide prospect tracking system and help monitor the solicitation process.</li></ul>General<ul><li>To ensure The Old Vic’s programmes, website and social media are regularly updated with development information, and liaise with marketing as appropriate in achieving these tasks.</li><li>Contribute proactively to development team activities.</li><li>Undertake training deemed necessary by the development director.</li><li>Carry out any other duties as requested by the development director.</li><li>Comply with The Old Vic’s Equal Opportunities, Sustainability and Health &amp; Safety and Staff Handbook policies at all times.</li></ul>This is not an exhaustive list of duties and the Theatre's management may, at any time, allocate other tasks which are of a similar nature or level. Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Demonstrable track record of successfully managing an individual giving scheme</li><li>Meticulous attention to detail and ability to work independently and with initiative</li><li>Confident dealing with a range of stakeholders and diverse relationship management</li><li>Excellent and demonstrable administration skills, including with regards to financial record keeping and fundraised income</li><li>A friendly and professional attitude; able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills</li><li>Good working knowledge of Gift Aid</li><li>Outstanding administration and organisation skills</li><li>Ability to juggle multiple priorities and pivot when time-sensitive tasks arise</li><li>A collaborative approach to working in a small, busy team</li><li>Robust knowledge of CRM/fundraising databases (Tessitura is an advantage)</li></ul> We actively support and encourage people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences and skill sets to join us and help shape what we do. We are particularly keen to receive applications from people of the global majority, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse and disabled candidates.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

The Old Vic Theatre

Individual giving manager

Closing date: 8th September 2025Salary: £27,000Contract: This role is a full-time permanent position.&nbsp; Do you want to work in an award-winning publishing house?Bloomsbury is looking for an enthusiastic contracts assistant to join the very busy, thriving and dynamic group contracts department. This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking for an entry-level role in contracts, or having had previous experience in contract administration within publishing or the media industry. The role will suit someone who wants to work in a global award-winning publishing house, surrounded by books but on the legal side of book publishing (not in the more commonly-known departments of editorial or rights).&nbsp;The ideal candidate will gain a thorough understanding of the publishing process and work closely with Bloomsbury’s different divisions both in the US and the UK. You will have an ever-present attention to detail, with a passion for accuracy, language and excellent interpersonal skills.&nbsp; Responsibilities<ul><li>Contract administration: communicating with internal departments to ensure that all contract administration and paperwork is completed on time and filed correctly</li><li>Responsible for maintaining contractual information on Biblio </li><li>Ensuring that contractual procedures and guidance documents are correct and up to date (key to the running of the contracts department)</li><li>Drafting contracts including addenda, letters of termination</li><li>Communicating with internal departments and external counterparts, responding to general queries regarding contractual terms and processes for all Bloomsbury imprints</li><li>Processing reversion requests: including careful analysis of sales figures and stock levels, and liaising with editorial and sales teams to reach a decision with the support of contract team</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience&nbsp;<ul><li>Strong administrative and organisation skills</li><li>Keen attention to detail</li><li>Knowledge of Biblio would be a bonus but training will be provided</li><li>Excellent interpersonal skills, comfortable with speaking to people of all levels</li><li>Ability to carefully research and solve queries</li><li>Ability to manage a varied workload and prioritise effectively</li><li>Knowledge of publishing contracts an advantage</li></ul> Additional informationThe role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred).&nbsp; Allocated office days for this role are: Monday and Wednesday.This position is eligible for Bloomsbury’s Rental Deposit Loan Scheme. To assist candidates who want to start and to establish a career in publishing, Bloomsbury offers an interest-free rental deposit to support securing somewhere to live. The rental deposit loan can be up to £3,000 and will be paid back over 2 years. To applyPlease apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 on Monday 8th of September 2025. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applicationsBloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required.The Book Trade Charity provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: <a href="http://booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">http://booktradeentrysupport.org</a>Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

Head Office - London

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Publishing UK: Bedford Square Office

Contracts assistant

4 Business Development / Sales / Rights / Legal Opportunities