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Orion Children's Books, a division of The Orion Publishing Group
- Rights Executive
2013 - maintenant
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Orion Children’s Books, a division of The Orion Publishing Group
- Rights Assistant
2010 - 2012
Responsibilities include, as well as the Rights tasks overtaken in previous role as Departmental Assistant, preparing and attending the Frankfurt and Bologna Book Fairs, taking on own meetings and assisting with all the follow-up. Checking contracts for the Rights Director, fulfilling production/art requests for foreign licensees and invoicing all artwork. Researching and identifying prospective new customers. Analysing sales and negotiating licence renewals. Preparing and mailing submissions, liaising with agents, foreign and domestic contacts and handling daily administrative tasks such as phone, filing, mail, etc.
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Orion Children’s Books, a division of The Orion Publishing Group
- PA & Departmental Assistant
2008 - 2010
• Assisted the Rights Manager in the following tasks:
Completing tax forms and sending out to publishers, reversion chasing and processing, sending out foreign editions to authors (following up publication date with publishers where necessary), sourcing and supplying artwork files, updating the rights database with submission reports and rejections, preparing presentation material for book fairs, assisting at book fairs (on reception and responsible for own meetings), helping with follow-up (logging notes and helping out with mailings).
• Provided administrative support to the Publisher and Children’s department, such as:
Organising material for publishing meetings, drafting acquisition P&Ls, updating AIs, collating sales material for Key Accounts, updating sales figures, compiling charts and providing data analysis, helping out with French-English translation for contracts and general correspondence with Hachette France, distributing authors/illustrators/agents’ copies and maintaining office stock, dealing with general queries addressed to the Children’s department (internal and external).
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W & G Foyle Ltd – Foyles Charing Cross Road
- Product Administration Assistant
2007 - 2008
Worked effectively to manage the stock and monitor store administration processes for all of Foyles branches, as well as being specifically in charge of the returns processing of Foyles at Selfridges Manchester. As part of the Head Office team, supervised all ordering processes including teleordering, organised stock-transfers, administered and communicated weekly and monthly reports, updated budget and returns figures, supervised stocktakes, liaised with staff, sales representatives, distributors and suppliers.
Awarded Employee of the Month (June 2008) for outstanding contribution to the Product Admin dept.
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Octopus Publishing Group
- Work experience, Foreign Rights dept
2006 - 2006
Assisted the Foreign Rights team dedicated to Mitchell Beazley, Conran & Cassel Publishing
in the following tasks: input and maintained the rights sold database, helped transferring data from one database to another (Bright Eye and Bradbury Phillips), using Xpress, printed sales material to be distributed to foreign publishers, sent finished copies and advance material to authors and foreign customers, filed correspondence and contracts.
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W & G Foyle Ltd – Foyles at the South Bank Centre
- Bookseller
2006 - 2007
Assisted the staff during the festive season: welcomed and served customers, placed orders through wholesalers/suppliers, shelved books. Ensured returns were despatched in a timely manner with all correct paperwork: identified goods to be returned and obtained the relevant authorisations, checked, packed and sent authorised goods back to the relevant suppliers. Worked closely with the Head Office team to hit returns monthly targets.
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Pearson Education France
- Sales and Editorial Assistant
PAU
2004 - 2005
Worked across different lists, including Business, Computing and Practical books: wrote blurbs, advance information sheets and promotional leaflets, e-mailed cover visuals and sales material to representatives, proof-read covers, updated the company website with forthcoming publications.
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Éditions Fayard, an imprint of Hachette Livre
- Work experience, Publicity dept
2004 - 2004
Assisted the Publicity Manager in organising events (including a literary luncheon between booksellers and editors), assisted authors during book signings at the Paris Book Fair 2004, updated the Press database, filed the press reviews, sent proofs and gratis copies.
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Fayard
2004 - 2004
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Éditions Pessiot-Tierce-Communication
- Work experience, Marketing dept
2001 - 2001
Worked on a micro market study amongst various booksellers and retailers, in order to determine the profitability of editorial collections that were still at the planning stage.
