Contracts & Business Affairs Administration Assistant (Permissions)
Job Overview
Job title: Contracts & Business Affairs Administration Assistant (Permissions)
Job description: Are you super-organised with great attention to detail?
Looking for a role in publishing within a commercial environment?
We’re looking for someone to join our Contracts & Business Affairs team as an Administration Assistant on a permanent basis, based at our London offices.
Our Contracts & Business Affairs team is an integral part of the business and is responsible for the preparation and negotiation of all publishing agreements across the business, as well as administering a variety of permission requests.
Reporting into the Team Co-ordinator, the Administration Assistant will be responsible for supporting the Group Contracts & Business Affairs Department with day to day administration, specifically making sure that Rights granted to and licensed by Penguin Random House are correctly catalogued and kept updated.
You’ll be amending and setting up contract records, preparing reports for divisional meetings, updating internal systems, monitoring turnaround statistics and handling renewals and expiries of Rights. You’ll regularly liaise with colleagues from inside and outside the team, so good communication skills are essential.
This is a great opportunity for someone highly organised looking to take their first steps in a publishing career with an interest in developing their careers across Contracts and Legal. You’ll need excellent word processing as well as a working knowledge of MS Office to do this role well. Experience with excel and a data management system would be beneficial, but not necessary.
We’ll teach you everything that you need to know to succeed in this role. You’ll need to be a good communicator, able to connect with people at all levels. You’ll learn how to balance a varied workload and know what to prioritise first.
If you’re interested in this role, please apply with your CV and cover letter by Thursday 18th November.
Salary: You‘ll start on £24,000. Expect a £1,000 increase on your first anniversary in this role and a further £1,000 on your second to reflect your growing contribution.
What you can expect from us:
Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:
- 25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days
- Medical cover
- Life assurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Discounted gym membership
- Generous pension scheme
- Summer working hours (role dependent)
- Volunteering policy and charity matching
- Employee Assistance programme
- Mentoring programme
- Extended gender neutral parental leave
- 60% Discount on Company books
- Each site has trained mental health first aiders
- We plant a tree for every new employee to our business
Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.
As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we’re part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can’t take all eligible candidates to interview.
We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at .
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We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here:
Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.
Company: Penguin Books Limited
Country: United Kingdom
State/Region: London
City: VBR
Postal Code: SW1V 2SA
Job ID: 182321
Company: Penguin Books Limited
Expected salary:
Location: United Kingdom
Job date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 23:01:49 GMT
Job Source: Careerjet.ca