Fonts Manager (2 year FTC)

Who we are and what we do

About Hachette UK

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.

We're made up of 10 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.

Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Orion, which won Publisher of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards; Little, Brown; John Murray Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Headline; Octopus, and Bookouture. They publish fiction and non-fiction in digital, audio and print format, from the world's best and most diverse authors, including Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O'Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling, Colson Whitehead, and Malala Yousafzai. Hachette Children's Group publishes a wide and vibrant range of books for children across all age ranges, while Hachette Learning is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools.

Hachette UK is part of Hachette Livre, the world's third largest trade and educational publisher. As well as our headquarters in Carmelite House, London, and our state-of-the-art book distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, we have recently opened five new offices in Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The UK region also includes offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, the Caribbean, and Ireland.

It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and TV are the foundation of the UK's creative industries.

What you'll be doing

This role will act as a subject matter expert on fonts for the Group, providing knowledge and advice to all business functions.

Manage fonts procurement, licensing and the deployment of such creative assets within Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group (US), including the review of current processes and business requirements, including proposing changes to such processes, the successful candidate will be the central point of control for the use and management of fonts across the companies, liaising with stakeholders and ensuring licensing compliance and adherence to best practice, and will be responsible for representing these overall results to the business and legal teams.

Some key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Map business stakeholders with an interest or involvement in font management
• Map current processes for font management and the licensing of other creative assets as required
• Develop licensing strategies that support creative freedom, commercial considerations and legal compliance.
• Managing complex licensing portfolios and vendor relationships.
• Ensure process and policy documentation is kept up to date and fit for purpose
• Collate fully costed options/recommendations for optimal resource (inc. roles and responsibilities), processes and system usage for future management of fonts within HUK, HBG and HANZ.
• Educate teams on licensing risks and proper usage through training sessions and documentation
• A full job description will be shared at interview stage

Who we are looking for

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in licensing, intellectual property management, or rights administration, preferably in a creative or digital environment. A strong understanding of font licensing models (desktop, web, app, broadcast, etc.) is essential to the role. An awareness of trends in typography, branding, and accessibility in publishing is also key to this role, and an understanding of publishing processes and systems is advantageous.

Other Skills/Knowledge/Personal Attributes include:

• The ability to accurately map business processes to support the delivery of future solutions
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at all levels of seniority
• An excellent communicator, possessing the ability to engage, energise and inspire collaboration
• The ability to manage expectations at all levels and agree pragmatic resolutions where necessary
• The ability to deliver in a multicultural, multidivisional organisation
• Excellent organisational skills

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
• Generous pension schemes
• Rent deposit loans
• 2 community days per year
• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye care vouchers

The role will be based at our London office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Our commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

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