Foreign rights assistant

Closing date for applications: 2nd September 2024

Salary: £27,000 dependent on experience (+bonus +benefits)

We are looking for an enthusiastic and organised Foreign Rights Assistant to join our busy foreign rights sales department, who is a team player with a keen eye for detail and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Octopus publish books for everyone. We love to enlighten, nourish, entertain and most of all inspire readers and listeners everywhere. We're a leading publisher of non-fiction books, working to publish exciting, market-leading books across our many unique imprints, including Philip's maps and guides.

Octopus is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 12 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.

This role can be based at our London office, or at any of our new regional offices in Sheffield, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Manchester or Bristol, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Responsibilities

• Co-edition management


• Drafting of sales contracts


• Answering inquiries from foreign Publishers


• Providing general administrative assistance to the foreign sales department


• Occasionally attend book fairs in a support role.

Who we are looking for

• A team player with a keen eye for detail


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills


• This is a varied and busy role that requires a bright, dynamic applicant who is happy multi-tasking


• Office experience, data entry experience (Biblio) and foreign language skills are a strong advantage.

Benefits

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)


• Private medical insurance


• Generous pension schemes


• Rent deposit loans


• 2 community days per year


• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)


• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards


• Cycle to Work scheme


• Eye care vouchers


• Wide-ranging training library


• Development programmes (including mentoring)


• Up to 70% off book purchases


• A charity bookshelf


• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks


• Season ticket loans


• And much more!

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org

Early applications will be prioritised. The applicant will need to have the right to live and work in the UK.

Please include in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.