Job Description

Are you organised with great attention to detail? Are you looking to gain some publishing experience within a commercial environment?

We\'re looking for an Assistant to join our busy Contracts and Business Affairs team on a 12-month Fixed Term basis.

About the team

Our Contracts and Business Affairs Department is an integral part of the business and is responsible for the preparation and negotiation of all publishing agreements within the business. The team works across all our Penguin Random House books.

The opportunity

In this exciting role, you\'ll be reporting to the Senior Contracts Manager and ensuring the smooth-running of the team.

Responsibilities will include:

• Drafting, checking, and negotiating contracts and managing a wide range of contract requests
• Processing signed contracts, ensuring contracts are returned to author/agent and maintaining contracts and correspondence files
• Liaising with colleagues across Editorial and Royalties as the first point of contact for the team
• Ensuring databases and records are up to date
• Being involved with projects (for instance, researching terms agreed with a particular agency)
• Providing general ad hoc administrative support across the team as requested.

What you\'ll bring

This is a great opportunity for someone who is highly organised and looking to take their first steps in a publishing career, with an interest in developing their career within the Contracts and Business Affairs department. You\'ll need excellent word processing skills and the ability to handle and analyse data, as well as a working knowledge of MS Office to do this role well.

We\'ll teach you everything that you need to know to succeed in this role, but you\'ll need to be a good communicator, able to connect with people at all levels. You\'ll learn how to balance a varied workload and know what to prioritise first. An awareness of rights and contracts would be an advantage but not essential.

How to apply

Please apply with your CV and Cover Letter by 23:59 on Tuesday 22nd August.

Our hybrid working approach

PRH is currently experimenting with hybrid working and involving colleagues across the business to shape our future ways of working. The needs of our teams and individuals are different, so we\'re not taking a one-size-fits-all approach. For this role, we\'ll expect you to work 2 days a week from our offices in London. The exact balance of office to remote working will depend on the nature of your role and team needs, and we are open to discussing this through the recruitment process.

What you can expect from us:

Salary: You\'ll start on \xc2\xa326,500. Expect a \xc2\xa31,000 increase on your first anniversary (if your role is extended) to reflect your growing contribution.

Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:

• 27 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days
• Medical cover
• Life assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Generous pension scheme
• Summer working hours (role dependent)
• Volunteering policy and charity matching
• Employee Assistance programme
• Mentoring programme
• Extended gender neutral parental leave
• Access to free and discounted books and eBooks across Penguin Random House UK
• Each site has trained mental health first aiders
• We plant a tree for every new employee to our business

Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we\'re part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can\'t take all eligible candidates to interview.

We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at . Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here:

We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here:

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: London

City: London

Postal Code: SW1V

Job ID: 263037

Date: 15 Aug 2023

Location:

London, LND, GB, SW1V

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