Clare Hodder Email & Phone Number

• Palgrave Macmillan is a leading publisher of academic content, specialising in humanities and social sciences.Leadership
• Led team to provide efficient, strategically sensible and profitable licensing solutions - grew licensing revenues by 120%
• Chaired Publisher’s Association’s Academic and Professional Division Copyright Committee (2005 – 2014) - worked with British Academy on ‘Joint Guidelines on Academic Research’, instigated 'Publisher Guidelines for.
• Chaired Publisher’s Association’s Academic and Professional Division Copyright Committee (2005 – 2014) - worked with British Academy on ‘Joint Guidelines on Academic Research’, instigated 'Publisher Guidelines for.
• Identified inconsistencies in rights acquisition process and developed new strategies to resolve - streamlined workflows, improved license compliance, increased number of ebooks
• Strategic input into projects such as Connect (e-book platform), Pivot (innovative, mid-length work imprint) and Open Access policy development - anticipated issues and proposed solutions, balancing commercial needs of.

• Grew team and restructured roles within the team to maximise efficiency and grow revenue, which was achieved
• Took on direct responsibility for some translation territories (French, Spanish, Portuguese and German), significantly increasing revenue from these areas
• Continued to handle co-publications, reprints, serial and collective licensing
• Worked on a number of company-wide projects including developing the ebook platform and various internal systems

• Promoted to manage the department and oversee licensing on behalf of the business.
• Took responsibility for collective licensing, reprints and serial rights.
• Assumed responsibility for backlist erights clearance to support the growing ebook business
• Supported editorial staff in relation to rights acquisition issues

• Managing the US Co-publication programme (see Rights Assistant below)
• Bookclub sales
• Managing Permissions

• Assisting with US co-publication programme, this involved close liaison with US Publishers in addition to internal production and distribution staff
• Handling permissions

• The Creative Umbrella was a PR Consultancy primarily serving the publishing industry. Clients included: V&A Publications, Little, Brown and Co.,The Running Press.
• Creating Press Releases
• Setting up author interviews with newspapers, radio and television channels
• Assisting with launch events
• General administrative work

• James Thin Ltd (formerly Volume One Books) was a general interest high street bookseller.
• customer service desk - dealing with customer orders and general enquiries
• stock display
• cashier duties

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