Rights Manager – 12 month FTC (starting March 2025)

Your team:
The Children’s Rights department handles subsidiary rights across all of the Macmillan Children’s Books (MCB) publishing, which includes imprints Campbell, Two Hoots, Kingfisher and First Ink, and also for Priddy Books and Neon Squid.

MCB is one of the UK’s leading children’s publishers, creating and publishing bestselling brands, children’s books and poetry for all ages for over 150 years. The original publisher of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the MCB list today features many international bestselling and award-winning authors and illustrators, including Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler, Emily Gravett, Andy Griffiths, Rod Campbell, John Patrick Green, Frances Hardinge, Dara McAnulty, David Olusoga, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Lenny Henry, Chris Riddell, Liz Pichon, Camilla Reid, Tomi Adeyemi and Marcus Rashford. A few of MCB’s most notable brands include The Gruffalo, Dear Zoo, Tales from Acorn Wood, The Moomins, Milly-Molly-Mandy and Sylvanian Families.

Your role:
As a Rights Manager, you will grow revenue and profitability in international markets by selling translation rights and co-editions. This is a busy and wide-ranging role where you will work both independently and alongside the Rights team. We are looking to appoint a talented, tenacious and creative individual with a keen commercial and international eye, who is ready to take the next step in their career by joining a leading rights team and developing their skills as a Rights Manager.

Your key responsibilities:

• Take an active role in identifying suitable new titles for world rights acquisitions

• Work to grow co-edition and subsidiary rights sales across Macmillan’s children’s lists

• Act as a key point of contact within the Rights team internally and externally

• Support the work of the department more generally.
  

Essential experience, abilities and knowledge you’ll need to succeed:
You will be passionate about children’s books and the international publishing industry, keen to explore a new challenge, and excited by the opportunity to work across the range of lists at Macmillan, working dynamically on both frontlist and backlist titles.

• A proven track record in co-editions and rights sales within children’s publishing

• Outstanding communication, sales, pitching and negotiating skills

• Exceptional organisational and time management skills

• Commercial awareness

• Willingness and ability to travel regularly

• Ambitious, positive and a team player.

Desirable skills we’d love you to have:

• Experience selling to Germany

• Knowledge of Biblio

• Fluency in a second language

What you’ll get in return:
In return we can offer you a range of great projects, a supportive and collaborative working environment as well as a competitive salary and benefits package.

Salary starting from: £40,000

Closing Date: 24 November 2024

Some of the benefits we offer:

• 28 days’ annual leave increasing with years of service + bank holidays

• Generous pension scheme

• Discounted private medical insurance

• Group income protection scheme

• Enhanced family pay and leave

• Flexible working hours and summer hours (early finish on a Friday during summer months)

• 2 Volunteer Days per year

• 75% off all Pan Macmillan books and regular staff book sales (highly reduced rates)

• Season ticket loan/advance

• Cycle to work scheme

• Discounts on shopping, Tastecard+ and gym memberships; Christmas club savings

• Daily free breakfast and monthly company lunch

This is a full time,12 month fixed term role, and will be based in our offices in Farringdon, London, with some flexibility to work from home each week.

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

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