Editorial operations assistant, adult consumer

Closing date for applications: 7 August 2025

Salary: £27,000 per annum

Location: The role is based at our London office, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid-working pattern of two days office-based/three days home-based (or fully office-based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are Monday and Tuesday.


Kick-start your publishing career with Publisher of the Year Bloomsbury! This entry-level role offers hands-on experience supporting editorial administration and operations.

We are looking for an editorial operations assistant to join the adult editorial team at Bloomsbury Publishing, the home of authors such as Samantha Shannon, William Dalrymple, Kiley Reid, Stuart Turton, Georgina Hayden and Poppy O’Toole. This is a wonderful opportunity to join the British Book Awards’ current Publisher of the Year in an entry-level role.

You’ll be an enthusiastic, efficient person and you’ll assist the entire department with day-to-day administrative and editorial support. Your work will bring you into contact with all members of the department, and there will be opportunities to develop editorial skills. The team sits within the consumer division, and reports to the head of editorial operations.


The role

Your work will mainly involve the following, with other departmental admin tasks as required.

Administrative and editorial support

• Assisting with day-to-day administration in order to centralise the management of the running of the department and support the editorial team
• Responsibility for freelancer onboarding
• Biblio maintenance: keeping the source of all our data for our titles as up-to-date and smoothly running as possible
• Contact for multi-region editions (MREs) originating from Bloomsbury USA
• Checking ePubs and reprint covers and approving for press

Assistant to head of editorial operations

• Arranging and minuting meetings, running and circulating reports
• Acting as the team contact for queries from other departments
• Processing expenses

Assistant to editor-in-chief

• Managing diary, expenses and travel
• Running reports and schedules from Biblio and other data sources
• Assisting with departmental meetings

Other admin tasks

• Handling prize deadlines and submissions for the department
• Organising couriers
• Maintaining a database of readers used by the department and organising materials for readers as required
• Ordering in copies of books as needed
• Printing, scanning, photocopying and binding manuscripts
• Assisting with arrangements for events

Knowledge, skills and experience

We are looking for someone organised, confident and eager to learn, with:

• excellent communication and time-management skills
• impeccable spelling, grammar and punctuation
• office experience
• excellent organisational skills
• attention to detail
• a demonstrable interest in trade fiction and non-fiction, and an awareness of the book market
• some relevant experience would be an advantage

Additional information

This position is eligible for Bloomsbury’s Rental Deposit Loan Scheme. To assist candidates who want to start and establish a career in publishing, Bloomsbury offers an interest-free rental deposit to support securing somewhere to live. The rental deposit loan can be up to £3,000 and will be paid back over two years.

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via our website detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by Thursday 7th of August 2025. For best results, please use a desktop to apply as some mobile browsers may not fully support the application portal. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Bloomsbury reserves the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications.

The Book Trade Charity provides financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: http://booktradeentrysupport.org


Bloomsbury Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

• Hybrid working pattern of: two days office-based/three days home-based (or fully office-based if preferred)
• 25 days’ holiday, 3.5 days’ Christmas company holiday
• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Work anywhere fortnight - for two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for working anywhere is one week; the maximum period is two weeks.
• Season ticket loan
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Peppy Health app
• In-house doctor
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required.

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