Audio executive (12 month FTC)

Closing date: 7th July 2025

Salary: Up to £32,000 dependent on experience (+bonus +benefits)

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

This is an exciting opportunity for an existing audio assistant, with proven experience of working in an audiobook publishing team, to take the next step in their career.

Hachette Audio is a small, highly productive audio team who create and publish audiobooks across all the divisions at Hachette. We work with authors and actors to create innovative, award-winning content, and we work with the full publishing team to ensure that audiobooks are core to Hachette’s publishing output.

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

• You will be managing the inbound and outbound supply of licensed audio content, overseeing licence, invoice and PO generation, and you will contribute to maximising the revenue generated from audio masters licensing deals.
• You will be taking responsibility for the casting, recording and production management of assigned imprints/titles, ensuring high quality, cost-controlled, and timely publication of audiobooks
• You will provide support, including some administrative support, to the Audio team.

Who we are looking for

• Previous experience of working in a busy audiobook team, ideally with casting and production experience.
• Experience of working with a DAM system and Biblio or a similar publishing system
• Experience of generating and using scheduling reports using Excel
• A proven track record of clear, persuasive communication
• A proven track record of multitasking
• A proven track record of excellent organisational skills.
• Excellent English language skills and good basic numeracy

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
• 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

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.

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

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