Secondary sales support

• Take ownership of selected secondary Softlines partners, acting as the day-to-day commercial lead with support from the Senior Manager.
• Identify and pitch to potential partners, support deal negotiations and assist with the completion of contracts and other relevant documentations.
• Work with licensees and internal teams to support products through the creative development process.
• Support the Retail Manager in presenting relevant categories to retail buyers, ensuring they are kept up to date on category developments, new licensees and brand opportunities.

Licensee Support

• Coordinate regular sales, brand and marketing updates for licensees, ensuring partners are aware of relevant opportunities and initiatives.
• Gather sales information, product details, imagery and lifestyle photography for use in presentations, working closely with the creative team where required.
• Liaise with the Social Media Manager to support licensee inclusion across Penguin Ventures’ social media channels and newsletters.
• Assist with awards nominations and entries, including coordinating materials and drafting copy as needed.

What you’ll bring

Essential criteria:

• Relevant experience in a licensing support role and an understanding of the licensing business.
• Commercially minded with an interest in brands, licensing, retail and consumer products.
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your workload.
• Confident building relationships with both internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive and solutions focused with high attention to detail and an understanding of business and licensing processes.
• Excellent PowerPoint and presentation skills to ensure presentations are clear, well designed and communicate the key information for licensees and partners.
• Calm under pressure with a willingness to ask for help in support of your development.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. The essential criteria for this role are listed as part of the ‘What you’ll bring’ section. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview. We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable with, for us to support your request.

If you would like to be considered under our Disability Confident Scheme during this recruitment process, please indicate this in your cover letter.

Application instructions

Please apply with your CV and cover letter outlining why you are the right candidate for the role by 11:59pm on Sunday 26th July

Use of AI tools

Here at Penguin, we believe in the power of authenticity and human creativity. When you apply for a position, we want to encourage you to showcase your unique voice. Throughout our recruitment process, please share your own thoughts, experiences, and skills. This helps us get a true sense of who you are and what you might bring to our team.

We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives, so please be yourself! While we recognise AI tools can be helpful, we recommend using them thoughtfully to ensure your responses reflect you.

Salary

Circa, £32,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

Hybrid working

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 the successful candidate to work from our London-based office a minimum of twice a week currently on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Other in office days required as well as regular visits to licensees and retailers.