Sales Assistant

Salary: £24,000 - £26,000 per annum

Hanway Films is looking to recruit a new Sales Assistant to join its London office.

Reporting to the Sales Manager, the successful candidate will support the sales team, President and CEO in their day-to-day assignments whilst also acting as a key point of contact for the company and assisting with more general tasks.

This is an exciting entry level position allowing the successful candidate an opportunity to develop a keen understanding of the film sales landscape at a major theatrical sales agency.

The core sales responsibilities for this role include:

Updating company databases/documents

• Keeping HanWay’s Mailchimp mailing list up to date; reviewing twice a year with sales team
• Creating and updating a project sheet of intelligent links of our materials for market
• Inputting of pricing into Irights system
• Inputting sales offers into Irights system during markets
• Cinando updates with our staff and latest content
• Keeping the crib sheet up to date

Taking on research projects and analysing data

• Creating comp sheets for potential projects for sales team estimates
• Creation of estimates template for sales team
• Trades (bi-weekly), Festival Trades newsletters
• Maintaining list of other sales announcements ahead of and at market to track competition

External communications

• Curating recipient list for mailers as instructed by sales team and sending out and monitoring responses
• General creation of sharable links and email-specific links as requested from the team
• Sending and monitoring links upon sales team request
• Market Brochure final splitting of content and send out on Mailchimp
• Sending sales related mailers
• Sending out sales rep avails before markets

Supporting CEO and President

• Office and market diary management
• Setting buyer meetings each market
• Making travel and accommodation bookings
• Pre-booking lunch meetings

General tasks

• General courier arrangements
• Assistance with ad hoc tech issues
• Taking notes in occasional meetings
• Managing office phone line
• HanWay Office inbox monitoring (Forward festival queries, library titles queries, projects for acquisitions, deleting spam)

The successful candidate will have a keen attention to detail and good organisational skills.

To apply

Please send CVs to rb@hanwayfilms.com.

The closing date for this position is 17/09/2024 at 23:59