Sales Assistant

Box; London; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned distributor in the film industry is seeking a Sales Assistant for their Glasgow office. The role offers a unique opportunity to engage with the international film community while honing skills in sales and customer service. Candidates should possess strong organizational and interpersonal skills. The full-time, fixed term contract provides comprehensive benefits and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Birthday off

Enhanced company sick pay

Employee social events

Hybrid working options

Qualifications

• Experience in a sales or distribution role preferred, but transferable skills accepted.
• High level of attention to detail and good organisational skills required.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and process sales enquiries by email and phone.
• Process weekly screening reports accurately and on time.
• Support contemporary title activity and provide assistance to the sales team.

Skills

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Customer service skills

Self-motivated

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Outlook

Job description

Park Circus is recruiting for a new Sales Assistant.

The Sales Assistant role is a rarely available position in Scotland, providing the successful candidate with an opportunity to work within the international film industry and gain invaluable experience in film distribution.

The role will require a passionate, organised and highly motivated individual, preferably with experience of working in a sales or distribution role in a high-volume fast-paced environment, but we are also open to those with transferable skills for this entry-level position in the industry.

The successful candidate will report to the Sales Manager and will work closely with the rest of the sales team, primarily responding to and processing sales enquiries by email and telephone from cinemas and film festivals in the UK & Ireland.

This is a fixed term contract, full-time role open to applicants who can join the team in our Glasgow office, located centrally at Charing Cross.

About Park Circus

Park Circus is a globally recognised theatrical and home entertainment distributor of classic films, distributing back catalogues on behalf of major Hollywood, British and French studios including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Disney, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, A24, ITV, Pathé, StudioCanal, and Channel 4.

Park Circus has a team of 35 people with sales presence in Glasgow, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Boston and Sydney. The company distributes over 25,000 classic films and licenses thousands of screenings every year around the world to cinema chains, independent cinemas, film festivals and cinematheques.

From single-screen community cinemas to international multiplex chains, from rooftops to pop-ups and for festivals big and small, we license retrospectives, reissues, restorations, one-off repertory screenings, special events and cinematic celebrations on behalf of our studio partners. Park Circus also provides worldwide home entertainment (Blu-ray collectors’ editions), digital and ancillary sales of classic films.

If you are enthusiastic about film, have the experience required and would like to join our passionate team, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Duties & responsibilities

• Respond to and process sales enquiries by email and phone from cinemas and film festivals across the UK and Ireland, reporting to and working closely with our Sales Manager
• Process weekly screening reports to be sent to a range of studio partners, noting the importance of attention to detail and ensuring these are sent at set times
• Support contemporary title activity by requesting screeners for licensees
• Provide wider support to the sales team as required

Required

• Show high level of attention to detail and good organisational skills, noting a key responsibility in managing admin tasks/screening reports that must be sent on time
• Work well on their own, under pressure and in a small team within a fast-paced work environment
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills, with the ability to form strong relationships internally and externally by email, telephone and face-to-face
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic with the ability to learn new skills quickly, as well as follow clear instruction
• Able to manage numerous priorities across multiple time zones
• Have strong computer skills, especially Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook

Preferred

• Interest and/or experience in cinema exhibition
• Ability to anticipate and resolve problems at an early stage
• A positive attitude, a good sense of initiative and happy to ask questions
• Good film knowledge and an interest in cinema!

Please note that: These are the key responsibilities and core skills required. This list of duties is not exhaustive and all employees may be required to perform additional duties from time to time.

What Park Circus offers you

• An excellent starting point in the film industry
• Generous annual leave entitlement (25 days plus bank holidays for full time employees)
• Additional leave awarded based on length of service
• Your birthday off
• Enhanced pay for parental leave (subject to eligibility and length of service)
• Enhanced company sick pay (subject to eligibility and length of service)
• Employee social events, including staff screenings (in our own cinema room)
• Company incentive plans

We truly value our team and understand the importance of flexibility and maintaining work life balance. We are flexible around core working hours and offer the flexibility of working from home and the office on a hybrid basis, in agreement with your manager.

Equal opportunities

At Park Circus we value diverse ideas and perspectives, and we are committed to offering an environment of respect, where equal employment opportunities are available to applicants from all backgrounds and demographics. Inclusion and accessibility are essential to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and support talented individuals from a diversity of backgrounds and lived experiences.

Email [e-mail] or call 07704 547463 if you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment process to enable you to participate.

Interviews will take place in Park Circus’s Glasgow office in early July.

The closing date for this position is 30/06/2025 at 23:59