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About the Role

Simon & Schuster UK is seeking an experienced Contracts Manager to join their growing Contracts team. This role involves drafting and negotiating a wide range of agreements and providing contractual advice across the Adult and Children's publishing divisions.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate and draft a wide range of agreements with authors, agents, publishers, and other third parties for the acquisition of rights across key territories.
• Provide contractual advice across the business.
• Support Editorial teams to negotiate terms and answer contractual queries.
• Oversee workflow and maintain high-quality standards throughout the full lifecycle of publishing contracts.

Requirements

• Commercially minded with existing knowledge of Contracts within the UK publishing sector.
• Solid understanding of current publishing practices.
• Highly organised.
• Competent negotiator.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills for building and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
• Legal right to work in the UK.
• Do not require visa sponsorship.

Skills

• Contract negotiation
• Contract drafting
• Contractual advice
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail
• Accuracy

Location

• UK

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Experienced

Benefits

• Eligible solely for the benefits plans of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd.

About the Company

• Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and non-fiction for readers of all ages, in all printed, digital and audio formats.
• It has a distinguished roster of authors and numerous well-known imprints and divisions.
• It has international companies and brings works of its authors to readers in over 200 countries and territories.

Equal Opportunity

• Simon & Schuster UK is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
• Committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity and gender expression.
• The spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do; opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all.