Mushens Entertainment: Foreign Rights Manager

BookBrunch Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent publishing company is seeking a Foreign Rights Manager for maternity cover. The role involves managing rights operations, negotiating contracts, and liaising with international partners, while fostering strong communication and organizational skills. Ideal candidates will have at least four years of relevant experience and enjoy a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• At least four years’ experience in rights management.
• Experience as a foreign rights executive/manager at an agency or in-house.
• Confidence managing others and great communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Managing literary assistant and negotiation of translation contracts.
• Liaising with international consultants for payment and sales.
• Overseeing Frankfurt Book Fair presence and coordinating meetings.

Skills

Communication

Multi-tasking

Management

Job description

Mushens Entertainment is looking to appoint a Foreign Rights Manager in a maternity cover role (full time) for the period of one year, reporting to CEO, Juliet Mushens. The salary is £33,000-£38,000 dependent on experience. The role is split 3 fixed days in our Shoreditch office, and 2 days working from home.

Mushens Entertainment represents a dynamic and bestselling list of fiction and non-fiction including no. 1 Sunday Times bestselling authors such as Richard Osman, Claire Douglas, Jessie Burton, Jennifer Saint and Susan Stokes-Chapman. Our books are published in 47 languages around the world and regularly top the bestseller lists abroad.

Duties and responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
• Managing our literary assistant
• Processing and negotiating translation contracts
• Liaising with our tax forms consultant to ensure the prompt payment of international money
• Sending out submissions internationally and communicating with our co-agents and a range of scouts on backlist and front-list titles
• Updating scouts and co-agents on new sales, bestseller positions and pulling together our monthly rights newsletter
• Overseeing our Frankfurt Book Fair presence including pulling together the rights guide, overseeing the scheduling of meetings, and attending along with two other ME agents
• Liaising with authors to help arrange international publicity

Skills and experience
You will have at least four years’ experience working in rights whether that is as a foreign rights executive/manager at an agency, in-house at a publisher, or as a literary scout. You will have great communication skills, the ability to multi-task, and confidence managing others.

If you feel you meet the above criteria please send through your CV and cover letter to: [e-mail].

Deadline to apply: 24 February 2023