Rights manager, Sydney

Penguin Random House

We are looking for a talented rights manager to join our team. The role of the rights manager is to secure subsidiary rights book sales throughout the world and manage the rights team of Penguin Random House Australia

Working across all areas of the Penguin Random House publishing program, the rights manager will also provide information about rights held and the sale of rights to internal and external colleagues.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage and mentor the rights team
• Manage the submissions of Australian and New Zealand titles to Penguin Random House group and non-group overseas companies for English rights sales
• Manage submission of selected Australian and New Zealand titles to foreign language publishers/agents
• Coordinate material and appointments for book fairs with publishers
• Managing author and agent relationships
• Drawing up sub-rights contracts and reversion paperwork when necessary.

About you:

• Significant rights and permissions experience
• Experience with licensing (preferable but not necessary)
• Sales and marketing experience (preferable but not necessary)
• Experience within the book industry (preferable but not necessary)
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Strong negotiation skills
• High level attention to detail and accuracy.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for books and a strong interest in the international publishing world.

If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply now.

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