Sales Coordinator

Salary: £27,500

Rocket Science is looking for a Sales Coordinator to join their team.

About Rocket Science

Rocket Science is globally recognized as one of the preeminent film & tv studios. London-based Rocket Science has developed, packaged, financed, produced, distributed and sold an impressive array of critically acclaimed and commercially successful projects. The company continues to grow vertically into top-level budgeted projects and laterally into territorial content creation and increasing its development and production footprint.

https://www.rocket-science.net/

About the role

This is an opportunity to join an exciting, fast paced, dynamic international company with an exciting slate of projects in a hands-on junior position. The role is one of support for the Sales Department and is a wonderful chance to gain skills, knowledge and exposure across a range of aspects of the business.

Hours: 40 per week
Contract: Permanent

Job specification

Working with the Sales Department on matters including:

• Ensuring sales estimates, availability lists, sales sheets, producers reports are up to date;
• Inputting data into rights management software (MovieChainer), and running reports for Sales team;
• Acting as first point of contact often for the company, both in London and also to manage the flow and function of the office at festivals & markets including Cannes;
• Taking minutes and reporting team meetings (on all sales related matters including submissions, offers and contracting, production updates, collection, etc.);
• Managing 2 x Sales Executive agendas for markets;
• Taking minutes and preparing internal agendas for external meetings;
• Managing availability lists (mostly through Excel reports and MovieChainer) and providing distributors key information before markets;
• Tracking sales offers and completed sales during markets (primarily sales made at Cannes, TIFF, AFM, Sundance and EFM) and ongoing throughout the year, always ensuring up-to-date information across various reports;
• Managing the distributors list and keeping track of production and financier details on all databases;
• Managing all areas of market prep, including but not limited to managing two executive agendas, creating comprehensive sales books and preparing sales data printouts while ensuring all accurate reporting;
• Prepare regular mail-outs for distributors (screening links and reminders, announcements and reviews, meeting requests);
• Analyzing project commercial value worldwide, assisting with compiling casting and director lists;
• Assisting with drafting pitch letters for new titles;
• Liaise with the marketing department across announcements on titles;
• Provide written analysis and coverage for new projects, currently a minimum of two scripts a week (prior knowledge of coverage not a pre-requisite);

Job requirements

• Outgoing and culturally curious with a strong interest in relationship building.
• Strong attention to detail, with capacity to build a thorough understanding of data management including data input.
• Strong desire to learn and develop skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to deal with a wide range of people at all levels of careers/stakeholders.
• Proficient utilization of Office Package (including Excel) and Adobe Acrobat with knowledge in InDesign a plus.
• Experience with Mailchimp, or adept and receptive to acquiring proficiency.
• Must be a motivated self-starter who can prioritize and complete multiple tasks at a time.
• Must be versatile and adept, always willing to envision the big picture and to operate autonomously (sometimes without instruction) as well as collaborate as part of a tight-knit team.
• Must be comfortable working in a varied, high-speed and demanding environment.
• Must be a team player.
• Passion for cinema and a keen interest in entertainment industries.
• Foreign language is a plus.

Studies have shown that women, communities of colour and historically underrepresented people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture — if you’re excited about the role but don’t meet all of the abovementioned qualifications, we encourage you to apply. Our differences bring a breadth of knowledge and perspectives that we really value.

Applications

To apply, please send a CV & cover letter (no longer than a page) to info@rocket-science.net

Regrettably, we are unable to respond to everyone due to the number of applicants, so please note that unfortunately if you do not hear back from us within 10 days of the closing date it means you were not selected for interview. 

The closing date for this position is 10/04/2024 at 18:00