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International Rights Sales Manager

About Us

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.
 
The Education Division provides books and resources across Primary, Secondary, Trade and Children's markets, both for the UK and for customers around the world. We are passionately committed to our mission to educate and inspire through book, board and screen.
 
The Rights team currently comprises nine team members who are responsible for selling the Division’s content rights around the world. Our list includes children’s trade picture books, non-fiction and fiction books, dictionaries, primary and secondary school books and digital resource.

About the Role

We are currently looking to recruit a bright and focused sales motivated individual to play a key role in our high-achieving team and contribute to our business by growing subsidiary rights income from our publishing.

You will be responsible for selling globally, devising your own sales strategies and tactics, identifying sales opportunities from an expansive content list and meeting your revenue targets.

You will be required to travel abroad (up 12 weeks a year) in order to meet key customers.

About You

You will need to be highly organised, adaptable, and self-sufficient. You will need to be able to manage a varied work-load in a competitive environment.

A pro-active, smart and positive approach to problem solving and closing sales is essential, as are excellent communication and strong entrepreneurial skills.

Following would be an advantage:

  • experience and knowledge of children’s book publishing and digital resources
  • experience and knowledge of rights-selling including co-editions
  • can demonstrate a successful track record of closing and growing sales
  • can demonstrate skill of finding, and forming long-standing fruitful relationships with key partners
  • can demonstrate that you are a team player and keen business traveller
  • foreign language(s) speaker
  • passionate about children’s publishing – trade & educational, print & digital as well as any other licensing channels for children’s books

Salary depending on skills and experience.

 

International Rights Sales Manager

Oxford University Press, Oxford
Permanent
Children's Publishing, Educational, Publisher
Rights
Salary description: 
Competitive

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