Job Description

Are you an experienced Rights professional keen to progress as part of a collaborative and growth-driven team?

We are recruiting for a Senior Rights Manager to join the Penguin Random House UK Adult Rights team to sell translation and serial rights for our Michael Joseph, Transworld and Vintage divisions. You will have a passion for books and represent an exciting range of titles across our lists: fiction and non-fiction, literary and commercial. You will also have a key role as divisional rights lead for Michael Joseph and collaborate with colleagues selling rights for other Penguin Random House divisions on shared initiatives across the business.

The role:

Responsible for translation rights in key markets, developing excellent sales and customer relationships

Responsible for leading on the sale of first serial rights for allocated titles and contributing to wider serial strategy

Act as the dedicated rights expert for Michael Joseph, becoming an integral member of this division and ensuring that the division is well served in all aspects of our rights business

Contribute to and help to implement the rights vision, direction and goals for the team, delivering to market budgets and maximising sales and customer opportunities

Collaborate effectively with rights colleagues on group initiatives

Foster and maintain excellent relationships with divisional marketing, publicity and sales (and any other departments as needed) to support our authors\' sales internationally

Nurture excellent relationships with authors, agents, scouts, international publishers and media contacts

Work closely and creatively with the editorial team to maximise rights opportunities around acquisitions, reading and responding quickly to evaluate new projects

What you\'ll bring:

We\'re looking for someone who knows how to develop and maintain relationships with our international publishers, who will bring market knowledge and achieve successful sales in their markets, always looking for new opportunities. You\'ll be an experienced rights seller with proven commercial success and a track record in skilfully negotiating rights sales and achieving high revenue deals, confident in representing a large and varied list of both fiction and non-fiction titles at bookfairs, author events and on sales trips, and handling competing demands on your time. You\'ll be a confident communicator, whether that\'s negotiations, pitching and presenting, or working collaboratively with internal teams. The successful candidate will be a team player who is curious, entrepreneurial and collaborative - a persuasive and ambitious ambassador for our books who will thrive in a fast-paced environment.

If this sounds like the next step for you, please apply with your CV and Cover Letter by midnight on Tuesday 19th September 2023.

About Rights:

Penguin Random House UK Group Rights represents international and domestic rights across the company\'s eight divisions. For Adult Rights, one team represents Ebury, Cornerstone, Penguin General and Penguin Press; another represents Transworld, Michael Joseph and Vintage; and another represents illustrated titles across the seven adult publishing divisions. A separate team represents the Penguin Random House UK Children\'s division, which includes Ladybird, Puffin and Penguin imprints. Our film, TV and media team works across all divisions. The Penguin Random House rights teams help our books and brands go global.

About Penguin:

We\'re the UK\'s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you\'ll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

Salary:

c. \xc2\xa345,000 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

Competitive benefits package:

Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

Financial - income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance

Wellbeing - healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks

Lifestyle - enhanced parental leave, tech scheme,

For our full benefits list please visit:

Hybrid working:

We\'re experimenting with a hybrid way of working that suits the needs of each team. While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role, we expect that colleagues will be in the office 2-4 days per week depending on business needs; there are regular meetings and activities that you will need to attend in person through the week at our Embassy Gardens and Vauxhall Bridge Road office.

The recruitment process:

You can read about our recruitment process at

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. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing . Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

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

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