Rights Team Leader

Location

Frating, Essex | United Kingdom

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Royalties Department as a Rights Team Leader.

The Royalty Department is positioned within Finance Services, and they are responsible for making sure our authors receive accurate royalty statements and payments, based on their contractual entitlement.

The Rights processing team, within Royalties, are responsible for ensuring that the financial elements of rights contracts are interpreted into the royalty system correctly and that Licensee’s financial statements and payments are allocated accurately.

We are looking for someone with excellent attention to detail, strong management experience, enthusiasm and a positive, flexible working approach to join our team on a permanent basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management of a team of 7 Rights Administrators
• Creating an environment orientated to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort. Building a cooperative and collaborative team that is flexible and adaptable to changing requirements and encourages a culture of continuous improvement.
• Organising and facilitating regular team meetings and one-to-ones.
• Ensure that rights contracts are set up accurately and within agreed timescales.
• Oversee the Biblio rights invoicing process and provide cover when necessary.
• Assisting with queries and helping to input various financial information during busy periods, including contractual rate queries and analysis of third-party royalty statements.
• Administration of external licensing databases to ensure accurate claiming of income.
• Highlight and facilitate team training and development.
• Monitor team’s workloads and prioritise work according to deadlines and targets.
• Support Right’s Administrators with answering queries from external stakeholders such as authors and agents.
• Production of Reporting to assist Finance Manager with KPIs
• Contribute to future process and systems developments.

What you’ll have:

• Ability to lead and manage a successful team.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise work effectively to meet deadlines.
• Good communication skills including being able to build strong relationships with other parts of the business.
• Team leader/management experience (including managing regular one to ones, yearly reviews, absence management meetings, conducting training etc)
• Experience in high volume transaction business area where accuracy is essential.
• Strong numerical skills
• Strong capabilities in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word

Experience working in a Royalty function would be an advantage for this role but is not essential.

About Penguin:

We’re the UK’s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you’ll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

How to apply:  Please apply with your CV & Cover Letter 23:59 on Friday 15th March.

Salary:  up to £31,000 depending on how your experience and skills align to the role

Competitive benefits package:  Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

• Financial – income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance
• Wellbeing - healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks
• Lifestyle – enhanced parental leave, tech scheme

For our full benefits list please visit: 

Hybrid working: We’re experimenting with a hybrid way of working that suits the needs of each team. While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role we expect you in the office at least once a week, based in Frating, Colchester. 

The recruitment process: You can read about our recruitment process at 

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 encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing  [email protected] . Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

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: Essex 

City: Frating 

Postal Code: CO7 7DW 

Job ID: 268504

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£31k per annum