Sales & Rights Manager

Great opportunity for an experienced Sales & Rights Manager to sell books and rights to the Christian and general markets in the UK and internationally. You will be joining a leading trade publisher of Christian Faith titles in Oxford and will oversee a team selling adult and children’s books.

Key duties:

• Oversee the sales of books across UK and globally, ensuring the company sales targets are achieved
• Develop procedures for sales and rights selling strategy, giving input to sales forecasts and budgets
• Manage sales for distributed book sales and book rights sales including managing appointed agents
• Maintain and develop overseas and UK relationships through regular communication and visits
• Supervise the work of the sales team members and their personal development
• Supervise team to deliver sales conference presentations, sales support materials for book fairs and consumer facing events or trade events
• Travel and attendance to represent the company at book fairs and events internationally
• Collaborates closely with editorial, marketing, production & finance teams

Experience / skills required:

• Sales Account Management experience at a senior level in the publishing industry, ideally on trade books (could also be in distribution / retail / merchandising)
• Solid line management experience
• Ability to think strategically and creatively              
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Good numeracy, flexibility and high team awareness
• Good level of IT literacy in Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Please note that the successful candidate needs to be a Christian or sympathetic to of the aims of the company, which is an occupational requirement as permitted in accordance with schedule 9, part 1of the Equality Act 2010

For further information, please apply online or email a CV and salary expectations to clairelaw@atwoodtate.co.uk

Contact:             Claire Law

Tel:                    0203 574 4423

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