Canelo - editor, partnerships manager

Location: London

Salary: Up to £39,000 depending on experience, plus bonus and benefits

Combine your editorial skills with author partnerships to help bring commercial fiction titles to print.

DK is bold, global, and growing. From bestselling gardening titles and award-winning cookbooks to international fiction and beautifully crafted children’s books, our publishing is broad, innovative, and constantly evolving. Across every genre, our publishers, editors and designers work hand-in-hand with authors to create books of the highest quality – authoritative, eye-opening, and enduring.

We're looking for an organised, proactive, teamplayer to join Canelo, as an Editor & Partnerships Manager. This is an exciting time in our publishing journey, so if you are looking to be a part of a team that brings stories to life for readers around the world, keep reading…

You will be part of a creative and collaborative team and significantly contribute to making bestsellers on the list, working closely with authors, designers, and production teams on a variety of exciting projects. Whilst there are opportunities to demonstrate your editorial flair, a large part of this role’s focus is on partnering with our established print-only authors (primarily in Commercial Fiction including Crime, Thriller, and Romance) to create their books from existing ebook manuscripts. You will be their first point of contact and will guide the works through the book-making process, from cover conception through to publication and be involved in their publishing strategy.

This role will best suit someone who loves to keep organised, as you will need to be confident in managing multiple projects simultaneously and meeting strict deadlines. You will need to be resourceful and solution-focused, and able to identify potential issues in projects before they occur. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential to this role.

Key responsibilities include:

• Write compelling and market-ready cover and sales copy for each title
• Brief and manage/review freelancers on relevant projects, including proofreads
• Maintain strong relationships with key external stakeholders, such as authors and agents, to facilitate smooth project execution
• Nurture existing relationships within DK to ensure editions are sent to press on time and deadlines for materials are met
• Update Biblio and other internal systems to ensure accurate metadata is maintained
• Engage with interdepartmental pitching, metadata optimisation, and our campaigns team to help ensure successful publication launches.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience of working on genre-fiction titles is desirable but not essential.
• The ideal candidate will demonstrate a solid grasp of how to engage those readerships.
• Experience of using Biblio and familiarity with Google Workplace are also desirable.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a passion for commercial brand publishing to join a leading fiction publisher. If you want to build upon your love for commercial fiction and are keen to learn a lot about brand authors across a variety of genres, formats and territories, please apply with your most recent CV and cover letter!

We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our people, some of which are:

• 25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one, plus bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme
• Volunteering policy and charity matching
• Employee assistance programme
• 70% discount on company books
• Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership
• Shopping discounts
• Flex Fridays (1pm Finish*)
• Up to 30 days remote working from abroad*

*Subject to certain criteria being met.

And we plant a tree for every new employee to our business

DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background. DK is proud to announce that we have adopted The Halo Code.

DK is a member of the disability confident scheme. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.

DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working weekly from home and in DK’s office. This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in our Pimlico office. As this is non-negotiable, please ensure you are within a reasonable commuting distance of London before applying.

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 or undertaking internships. For more information, visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.