Rights Assistant / Rights Administrator

Rights Assistant / Rights Administrator

Adult Subsidiary Rights Department

Pan Macmillan (www.panmacmillan.com) is one of the largest general book publishers in the UK, with imprints including Macmillan, Mantle, Tor, Pan, Picador, Macmillan Collector’s Library, Bluebird, Macmillan Children's Books, Campbell Books, Two Hoots and Kingfisher. Pan Macmillan is part of Macmillan Publishing International Limited.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Rights Assistant to join the busy and successful Rights team, providing administrative support for the team. The Rights Department is responsible for the sale of co-edition and subsidiary rights for the Macmillan Adult imprints around the world. Our lists include the fiction and non-fiction imprints of Macmillan, Pan, Picador, Bluebird, Mantle, and Tor.

We are looking for someone who will thrive in a very busy rights department and be able to work effectively within a team. They should be extremely well-organised, have excellent sales, administrative and interpersonal skills and be able to prioritise tasks efficiently.  

The key tasks of the role will include but are not limited to the following:

• Providing administrative support to the Rights Director and across the Adult Rights team.
• administering and processing sub-rights contracts from deals being agreed, to contracts being raised, signed, and invoiced
• Responsibility for the negotiation, sale, and supply of production materials to international  publishers
• Administering the licensing of Permissions through the Publishers Licensing Society
• Assisting with the creation of rights guides and materials for book fairs and overseas trips.
• General departmental administration
• Data imputing and report generating 
• Organization of book fair and sales trip schedules 
• Supporting and administrating some of the fulfilment process
• Maintaining and building excellent customer relationships

Experience / skills required:

• Knowledge / experience of Publishing, ideally within Rights 
• Desire to work in a busy international sales department 
• Highly computer literate, with particularly strong skills in MS Office. Knowledge of Biblio is desirable 
• Able to demonstrate excellent written, verbal and numerical skills 
• Able to demonstrate excellent organisational skills within a busy environment, particularly managing and prioritising own workload
• Able to work on own initiative as well as part of a team 
• Problem solving skills 
• Experience of working in a similar environment / office work experience desirable 

This role is based in our office in Farringdon. 

To apply, please submit your named CV and named covering letter confirming your current salary and notice period, quoting reference PAN/004/20 via email to mpilrecruitment@macmillan.com

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Closing date: 31st January 2020

All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to live and work in the UK in order to be considered for the vacancy.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the high volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to everyone. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for the position.