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About the Role
This is a maternity cover opportunity leading Penguin Random House’s dynamic and highly successful Media Rights business. You will identify exciting opportunities for adaptation across the film, television and theatre industries, and negotiate ambitious deals that bring our stories to new audiences and formats. This role combines strategic thinking, creative instincts, and exceptional deal-making and relationship-building skills.
Responsibilities
- Identifying books with potential for adaptation for TV, film and theatre
- Advising on new acquisitions with in-house editorial, contracts and legal teams
- Researching, planning and pitching titles and authors for adaptation opportunities
- Negotiating deals, including auctions, on behalf of authors with buyers
- Working closely with legal to establish terms and conditions for rights sales
- Managing on-going deals with external and internal stakeholders
- Working closely with individual authors to guide them through deals and the adaptation process
- Building our network of relationships across the media industry
- Keeping up to date with the fast-moving media and entertainment landscape
Requirements
- Strong experience within the media and entertainment industry (e.g., agencies, literary scouting, production, representation or rights)
- Good understanding of copyright and intellectual property, or experience working with rights, contracts or related commercial agreements
- Established network of contacts across film, television and the wider entertainment sector
- Excellent negotiation and commercial skills, with experience developing opportunities, managing deals or representing creative talent or intellectual property
- Strong knowledge of the entertainment landscape, including current creative and commercial trends
- Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to work with authors, agents, producers and senior stakeholders
- An entrepreneurial and proactive approach, with strong judgement and the ability to spot opportunities and drive them forward
- CV and cover letter in PDF format required for application
- Cover letter should be no more than one or two pages
Skills
- Media rights
- Deal negotiation
- Relationship building
- Strategic thinking
- Creative instincts
- Commercial acumen
- Copyright and intellectual property understanding
- Communication
- Influencing
Location
- Embassy Gardens office
Work Type
- 12-months-FTC
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- Circa £60,000 to £70,000 dependent on skills and experience, plus bonus and benefits
Benefits
- Bonus
- Benefits
About the Company
- Penguin Random House UK Group Rights represents international and domestic rights across the company’s eight publishing divisions helping our books and brands go global.
- Penguin Random House is one of the world’s leading publishing businesses.
- Here at Penguin, we believe in the power of authenticity and human creativity.
- We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives.
- As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to کرتے candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role.
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.