Job Description

Are you interested in international book markets? What about children\xe2\x80\x99s books?

We are looking to recruit a Rights Assistant to join our world record-breaking team on a Fixed Term basis to 31st March 2024.

About Rights within Penguin Random House Children\xe2\x80\x99s

We publish a wide range of debut and award-winning authors and illustrators, including Stephen and Lucy Hawking, Femi Fadugba, Anthony Browne, Helen Oxenbury, Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola, as well global brands such as Tom Fletcher, Spot and Peter Rabbit.

The opportunity

As a member of the Rights team, you will provide support to a team managing a high volume of work and overseeing the production of a large number of translated books known as co-editions.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating foreign language print deals, from price requests to supplying files, checking foreign language editions, tracking deadlines and resolving queries
• Maintaining accurate system and database records of sales and deals in Biblio (one of our internal publishing systems)
• Preparing presentations and managing production and manuscript schedules
• Handling requests for material from customers and supporting price requests
• Requesting new customer accounts
• Generating and circulating reports
• Managing the process for securing final materials/assets for Territory Managers
• Organising travel, meetings and sales materials for book fairs and international sales trips
• Ad-hoc duties to the support team when needed

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll bring

Organisation skills are key, as you\xe2\x80\x99ll have to be able to prioritise workload to ensure that schedule dates are hit on time. Project management skills are also needed, as you\xe2\x80\x99ll manage and help deliver a mixture of file sales and physical books to our customers. You will enjoy problem solving to effectively and professionally navigate trickier printings and deliver a world class service.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll be the first point of contact for incoming queries from our vast range of publishers around the globe, so you\xe2\x80\x99ll need strong customer service skills. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also need to be good at creating spreadsheets and managing supply of early material, manuscripts, covers and keeping the sales team updated with the submission calendar. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also juggle requests from multiple senior team members, so you\xe2\x80\x99ll be able to prioritise effectively and be confident communicating and building relationships with a wide range of people.

You don\xe2\x80\x99t need publishing experience as we\xe2\x80\x99ll provide training on publishing systems, but you\xe2\x80\x99ll need to be a quick learner with IT literacy and confidence using Microsoft Office and have a keen eye for detail.

How to apply

If you\xe2\x80\x99re interested in a career in Children\xe2\x80\x99s publishing, this could be the role for you. Apply with a CV and cover letter by 23:59 on Sunday 6th August 2023. Interviews will take place week commencing 14th August.

What to expect from us:

Salary: This role starts at \xc2\xa326,500 per annum. As per our entry level pay, if this role is extended you can expect a \xc2\xa31,000 increase on your first anniversary 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 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\xe2\x80\x99re 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\xe2\x80\x99t 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: SW11

Job ID: 262405

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