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About the Role

Simon & Schuster UK is seeking an experienced Contracts Manager to join its 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 by negotiating terms and answering 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.
• Must have the legal right to work in the UK.
• Does not require visa sponsorship.

Skills

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

Location

• UK

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Experienced

Salary/Compensations

• Starting £38,000

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.
• Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards.
• It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Adams Media, Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio.
• It has international companies in Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, and brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories.
• For more information visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com.

Equal Opportunity

• Simon & Schuster UK is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
• We are 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.
• At Simon & Schuster UK, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all.