Rights Manager - Group Rights - Film, Television and Stage

Introduction to the role

The Rights Manager will sell film, television and theatrical rights to HarperCollins’ books.  You will report to the Group Rights Director, and will be fully embedded with the rights department, as well as working with our publishing divisions.  You will represent us and our authors across the theatrical, broadcast and streaming industry, making deals on those books in which we control the rights as well as representing the broader list to help more of our books reach screens.  This will be a stimulating next step in selling media rights across a broad range of content for someone currently working at an agency, publisher, or production company.

Key tasks and accountabilities

• Identify development opportunities across both frontlist and backlist titles

• Meet customers across the industry both in the UK and internationally

• Develop sales materials for our books

• Negotiate deals, draft/vet contracts

• Attend divisional acquisitions and other meetings to stay up to date on our publishing, give input on potential for development on proposed and existing projects, feedback on trends in the media industry, helping to inform our acquisitions and development of our own IP projects

• Work with Group Rights Director to support the relationship with 3000 Pictures

• Work with authors and agents

• Maintain database of film, tv and theatrical rights held

• Maintain database of books in development and details of options granted

Skills required

• Understanding of options and purchase agreements, and ideally experience of negotiating them

• Commercially astute

• Ability to communicate at all levels, both in writing and verbally.

• Creative

• Strong organisational skills

Benefits 

• Hybrid working model (2+ days in the office) 

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy and sell holiday days) 

• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave 

• Private healthcare cover and life assurance 

• Free access to HeadSpace, employee assistance programme (24 hour helpline), mental health first aiders, and a wellbeing portal 

• Relocation rent loan

• 2 volunteering days

• Employee networks: HC All In (open forum), Elevate (for ethnic minority colleagues), HarperParents, Menopause at Work and Pride at HC 

• Unlimited training on our Learning and Development portal, management courses (up to MA level) and mentoring programmes 

• Virtual GP and eyecare vouchers 

• Charitable donation matching and volunteering day 

• We're a certified Carbon Neutral company 

• Free e-books and audiobooks, newspaper subscriptions and discounts on books 

• Subsidised canteen and retail discounts 

• Onsite prayer room 

If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to our People Advisor at [email removed - click apply for more details] with subject heading ‘Vacancy Query’ plus the job title and we will aim to get back to you within 5 working days.