We’re looking for a highly organized and detail-oriented individual to join the busy and successful Children’s Rights team, offering administrative support to assist the team in reaching our sales targets. This is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning publisher at a key point of growth.

Your team:
The Rights Department is responsible for sales of co-edition and subsidiary rights across the whole children’s publishing division, which includes the imprints of Macmillan Children’s Books, First Ink, Two Hoots, Preschool, Campbell, Kingfisher, Priddy and Neon Squid. We work closely with our sister companies in New York and Frankfurt, but also with other international publishers, whether big or small, to find the right homes for our authors and illustrators. We work directly with publishers throughout the world, and through co-agents in some Asian markets.

Your role:
As the Rights Assistant, you will play a pivotal role by facilitating administrative and sales support to help the team reach their targets. You will act as a key point of contact between Rights, Editorial, Royalties, Production, Contracts and other in-house teams, as well as a wide range of external customers.

Your key responsibilities:

• Providing administrative and sales support for the Children’s Rights team

• Administering and processing co-edition and sub-rights contracts, from deals being agreed to contracts being raised, signed, and invoiced

• Data entry and accurate upkeep of our publishing database (Biblio), and generating reports from Biblio

• Assisting with creating rights guides and gathering materials for book fairs and overseas trips

• Organizing book fair and sales trip schedules

• Attending international book fairs, carrying out reception duties there, should the opportunity arise, and assisting with the organization of any book fair author and illustrator events

• Sending out follow-up material after book fairs and sales trips

• Liaising with the Production team and external customers regarding customer packing and shipping requirements

• Maintaining and building strong working relationships with colleagues and customers.

Essential experience, abilities and knowledge you’ll need to succeed:

• Highly efficient, organized and proactive with ability to prioritize a demanding workload

• Proven ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team

• Ability to pick up new processes and maintain meticulous accuracy in your work

• Experience working with systems and tools such as MS Office and Google Workspace

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Willingness and ability to travel internationally to major book fairs

• Fluency in a foreign language or languages. Spanish and German are preferred.

• Proven passion for working in a busy international sales environment within Children’s Book publishing

• Demonstrable detailed understanding of the role of a rights department showcased in your application.

Desirable skills we’d love you to have:

• Experience working in the publishing industry, ideally within rights

• Familiarity with Biblio

• Curiosity for innovation and openness to new ideas.

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: £27,500

Closing date: 20 July 2025

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 and gym memberships; Christmas club savings

• Daily free breakfast and monthly company lunch

This is a full time, permanent 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.

At Pan Macmillan, we are highly committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at every level of our organisation. We welcome applications from all individuals, including any age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Our efforts to promote DEI are ongoing, and we continually strive to learn and improve our policies and practices. You can read our full Diversity & Inclusion Pledge here:https://www.panmacmillan.com/about/diversity-and-inclusion

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