Located in the heart of London’s bustling and creative Soho, United Agents is one of London’s leading talent agencies encompassing the worlds of film, TV, books, theatre, and comedy.
An exciting opportunity for a newly created position as Foreign Rights Manager in the Books Dept. of United Agents. Reporting to the current Head of Foreign Rights the candidate will have full responsibility for negotiating deals and handling some administrative tasks for all UA authors in the following territories where we work directly unless otherwise stated:
Greece
Israel
Indian sub-continent
Scandinavia
Eastern Europe
Spain
Portugal
Brazil
Thailand
Japan, China and Koran via sub-agents
This is a role with a great deal of autonomy and will allow the candidate to build on existing contacts to increase revenue in these important territories across the entire fiction, non fiction and children’s lists. There will be support from two Rights Assistants but no managerial duties.
The ideal candidate will have 3+ years’ experience at a Foreign Rights Executive level, will have attended book fairs/carried out foreign trips and have an excellent knowledge of international publishing and trends in trade publishing. They will also have experience in negotiating deals and handling international auctions and have a good network of publishers and scouts. Some knowledge of Bradbury Philips would be preferable, but training will be provided.
Deadline for applications: 5pm, Friday 17th July
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