Closing date for applications: 15 August 2025
Salary: £32,000 - £36,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)
Location: This role can be based at our London or Sheffield office with a blend of in-office (3 days) and home working (2 days) per week.
Bring your communication skills and love of books to this role, managing projects that bring award-winning audiobooks to life.
The group audio team is responsible for managing the end-to-end audio publishing process for Hachette UK (excluding the Bookouture and Hachette Learning divisions). Composed of expert audiobook editorial staff and the award-winning Carmelite Studios, the team collaborates closely with divisional publishing groups, external producers, agents, authors, and voice talent to produce bestselling and award-winning audiobooks, original audio productions, and other high-quality audio content.
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 11 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.
What you'll be doing
Working within the audiobook editorial team, you will be project managing a diverse range of audiobooks from across the Hachette UK publishing divisions, ensuring delivery of a high volume of projects on time and to budget. This will include:
- Working with divisional audio publishing leads to provide editorial and project management support as required
- Instructing the Carmelite Studio team and third party recording studios regarding project requirements e.g. budget, casting, pre-production research and other project specific requirements
- Supporting the Carmelite Studios pre-production team with casting, talent booking and related tasks
- Maintaining accurate production schedule information in Biblio3
- Liaising with internal and external services providers
- Liaising with authors, literary agents and talent agencies
- Negotiating talent fees and agreeing necessary contractual paperwork
- Representing the audio team at business-critical internal and external meetings
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of departmental processes and working practices
The role will report to the audio director, publishing and production. Please note that this is an editorial role and not an audio production role.
Who we are looking for
Candidates must be highly efficient, with a good eye for detail and the ability to multi-task. A can-do, enthusiastic attitude is essential, along with excellent communication skills. Candidates will be:
- Excellent written and verbal communicators
- Adaptable problems-solvers, who can work independently and think strategically
- Creative and entrepreneurial, with a positive attitude
- Highly organised and time efficient
- Passionate about audiobooks with a keen interest in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction
- Highly knowledgeable about audiobook publishing and the UK audiobook market, with proven audio publishing experience
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)
- Private medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- 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
- Wide-ranging training library
- Development programmes (including mentoring)
- Up to 70% off book purchases
- A charity bookshelf
- 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
- Season ticket loans
- And much more!
Our commitment
The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org
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.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.
Level of experience
- Junior