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About the Role
We are looking for a highly organized and sales-oriented individual to join the busy and successful Adult Rights team, with responsibility for direct sales for certain sub-rights, as well as supporting the Rights Director and the wider team in reaching our sales targets. This is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning publisher at a key point of growth.
Responsibilities
- Managing the negotiation and sale of English language sub-rights, including North American rights for selected titles, and production rights.
- Providing administrative, sales, and deal support for the Rights Director.
- Negotiating, administering, and processing sub-rights contracts, from deals being agreed to contracts being raised, signed, and invoiced.
- Handling the negotiation, sale, and supply of production materials to international publishers.
- Data entry and accurate upkeep of our publishing database (Biblio), and generating reports.
- Helping create engaging rights guides and pitch packs, while managing meeting schedules for major book fairs and sales trips.
- Developing and maintaining collaborative, long-term relationships with overseas publishing partners.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience working within an international rights department, literary agency, or related publishing sales environment.
- A working knowledge of sub-rights, international licensing agreements, and common contract terms.
- Comfortable handling figures, tracking financial information or sales targets, and maintaining numerical accuracy.
- A structured approach to prioritizing day-to-day tasks, tracking details across multiple projects, and meeting agreed deadlines.
- The ability to communicate information clearly and constructively in writing and when speaking with international partners and colleagues.
- An active dedication to promoting diverse voices and inclusive practices, taking personal responsibility for ensuring our workplace and publishing reflect the communities we serve.
- A collaborative approach to building a supportive, positive, and vibrant working environment.
- A genuine drive for learning, keeping up with international market trends, and embracing new perspectives.
- A commitment to openness, accuracy, and accountability in administrative and commercial negotiations.
- Must be able to demonstrate the right to live and work in the UK.
Skills
- Biblio or similar publishing databases
Location
- Farringdon, London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Salary/Compensations
- £30,000 to £33,000
Benefits
- 28 days’ annual leave increasing with years of service + bank holidays
- Generous pension scheme
- Discounted private medical insurance or health cash plan
- Group income protection scheme
- Enhanced family pay and leave
- Flexible working hours and summer hours (early finish on a Friday during summer months)
- 2 volunteer days per year
- 75% off all Pan Macmillan books and regular staff book sales (highly reduced rates)
- Season ticket loan/advance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Daily free breakfast and monthly company lunch
About the Company
- The Rights Department are responsible for licensing rights across the whole adult publishing division, which includes the imprints of Macmillan, Macmillan Business, Pan, Picador, Bluebird, One Boat, Mantle, Tor and Macmillan Collector’s Library.
- We work closely with our sister companies in New York, Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne, and Stuttgart, but also with other international publishers, whether big or small, to find the right homes for our authors.
- We work directly with publishers in the major European and North American markets, and through a network of co-agents, with specialist local knowledge, in other selected territories throughout the rest of the world.
- At Pan Macmillan, we are committed to publishing a wide range of voices that reflect the full breadth of the communities we serve.
- Joining us means playing an active role in bringing our titles to life as part of a team that champions inclusion at every level.
- We are dedicated to building a workplace that is as diverse and welcoming as the stories we tell, ensuring all perspectives are celebrated across everything we do.
- As a Disability Confident employer, we actively encourage applications from disabled candidates and people with long-term health conditions, aiming to offer an interview to everyone who meets the essential criteria for the role and chooses to apply under the scheme.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome applications from all individuals, including any age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
- Our efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are ongoing, and we continually strive to learn and improve.
- As a Disability Confident employer, we actively encourage applications from disabled candidates and people with long-term health conditions, aiming to offer an interview to everyone who meets the essential criteria for the role and chooses to apply under the scheme.