Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
About the Role
Seeking a motivated Rights Executive to join the team selling rights in illustrated books across Penguin Random House, supporting business in North America and Germany. This role involves extending sales, author care, and customer service, proactively tracking deals, providing administrative support, and achieving strong sales on allocated titles.
Responsibilities
- Extend sales, author care, and customer service in North America and Germany.
- Proactively track and manage North American and German deals.
- Provide administrative support to the Rights Director.
- Achieve strong sales on allocated titles.
- Build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, agents, authors, Editorial, Production, Marketing, and Publicity.
- Implement the rights vision, direction, and goals for the publishing group.
- Maximize sales and customer opportunities in North America and Germany in consultation with and in support of the Rights Director.
Requirements
- Experience in rights/licensing sales or in a commercial publishing environment.
- Genuine passion for selling books.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and confidently with internal and external stakeholders.
- A proactive approach to work, with initiative and accountability.
- A confident ambassador for books, translating personal excitement into generating enthusiasm in customers and colleagues.
- A willing, flexible project manager with strong administrative and organisation skills.
- Ability to adapt to change and handle competing priorities.
- An appetite for learning and applying feedback.
- A collaborative team player, naturally inclined to share information, contribute to team projects and support colleagues.
Skills
- Selling rights
- Sales
- Customer service
- Administrative support
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication
- Project management
- Organization skills
Location
- North America
- Germany
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- In-office 3 days a week
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Salary/Compensations
- Circa £31,000
- up to GBP 30000 - yearly
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
About the Company
- The Penguin Random House Group Rights department makes our books go global.
- Within this department, the Adult Illustrated Rights team represents an amazing roster of author talent from Jamie Oliver and Yotam Ottolenghi to Charlie Mackesy and Vivi Tinta.
- We work on illustrated titles across seven adult publishing divisions: Ebury, Michael Joseph, Vintage, Penguin Press, Cornerstone and Transworld.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.