Editorial operations manager

Closing date for applications: Friday 27th February 2026

Salary: Up to £40,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)

Location: London or Sheffield

If you thrive on organisation, collaboration and creative problem-solving, this is your chance to shape editorial operations at the heart of children’s publishing.

Hachette Children’s Group is one of the largest children’s publishers in the UK, with an outstanding track record in creating bestselling and award-winning books for children and young people. We are committed to raising readers whatever their age or interest, offering a book for every child at every stage on their reading journey. Hachette Children's Group is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 10 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.

What you'll be doing

The Editorial Operations Manager will oversee editorial systems across black-and-white publishing within HCG's fiction and non-fiction teams.

• Developing, implementing and monitoring processes to support the timely delivery of our books to critical path, with a particular focus on facilitating creative and ambitious working between editorial and design, this is a pivotal operations role within a busy department.
• You will be project-managing core cross-divisional processes - for example coordinating sales material and book fair guides and championing and maintaining exceptional bibliographic and metadata quality across the business.
• As the key point of contact between the creative teams and commercial departments, this is an opportunity to take a broad overview of our award-winning and bestselling publishing programme across all imprints, from long-time young fiction series and market-leading graphic novels, to highly illustrated fiction and non-fiction, and international YA brands.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for an exceptionally organised person, used to juggling multiple deadlines and happy to help others with prioritisation. Communication and liaison between multiple stakeholders is a crucial element of this role and we are looking for a team player who can lead meetings confidently and deliver actionable decisions. As the company grows, there is scope to redefine processes and search for new efficiencies and this role brings an opportunity to be proactive and innovative in the ownership of our editorial operations.

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 AgeWise, Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!

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

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 your 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

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.