Rights Executive (14-month FTC)

Bertelsmann; London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Rights Executive for a 14-month fixed term contract in London. This role involves negotiating translation rights across various markets while collaborating with a dynamic team. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong communication skills, proactive sales approach, and passion for literature.

Qualifications

• Experience in rights or sales.
• Proactive and entrepreneurial mindset.
• Confident communicator and negotiator.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate and sell translation rights.
• Maintain relationships with colleagues and customers.
• Evaluate projects and contribute to rights meetings.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Teamwork

Market awareness

Resourcefulness

Job description

Rights Executive (14-month FTC)

Are you a thoughtful and confident communicator and a great team player? Are you motivated to learn more about new rights markets?

We are recruiting for a Rights Executive on a 14 - month fixed term contract to join the team handling rights sales for our Ebury, Cornerstone, Penguin General and Penguin Press divisions.

You’ll have the chance to work across a wide range of fiction and non-fiction both literary and commercial, selling translation rights with specific responsibilities likely to include Arab World, Greece, Romania, Thailand, Türkiye & Vietnam. You’ll be part of a collaborative and growth-driven team, and report to the Senior Rights Manager.

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.

Key responsibilities:

This is a varied and exciting role. Day-to-day, you can expect to be:

• Negotiating and selling translation rights with ambition, pitching, selling and working closely with sub-agents where required.
• Representing titles as required at bookfairs and developing market knowledge, proactively tracking your markets to capture changes/new players and extend customer base
• Maintaining strong internal and external relationships with colleagues, customers, and sub agents.
• Evaluating new projects, contributing to rights meetings and title pitches and engaging with team strategy for ambitious, innovative and creative ways to increase title sales.
• Building productive working relationships with editorial/marketing/publicity (according to business need) within allocated division.

This role also supports the Divisional Rights Specialist for Penguin Press, deputising at meetings as necessary and helping to ensure a smooth flow of information and material between the Rights team and the division.

What you’ll bring

Essential criteria:

• Understand the rights business, and already be working in or have meaningful experience of Rights or Sales.
• Demonstrate an entrepreneurial and proactive approach to work, displaying resourcefulness and a curiosity about new opportunities and developments in the market.
• Be a confident communicator and a responsive negotiator with growing influencing skills.
• Work as a team player showing commitment both to individual sales opportunities and group initiatives.
• Be a keen reader, ready to translate personal passion into generating enthusiasm for our titles in others.

Application instructions

Please apply with your CV and cover letter outlining why you are the right candidate for the role by 11:59pm on Wednesday 18th June.

Please ensure you include a cover letter, as it is a crucial part of our assessment process. The cover letter offers an opportunity to show how your experience and interests align with the role requirements. Typically, we expect the cover letter to be no more than one or two pages in length.

Salary

Up to £30,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

Hybrid working

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 you will work from the office around three days per week.

Company:Penguin Books Limited

Country:United Kingdom

State/Region:London

City: London

Postal Code:SW11 7BW

Job ID:280427