International sales assistant

Closing date for applications: 13 August 2025

Salary: £27,000 based in London, £24,840 based outside of London

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

Are you detail-driven and passionate about books? Join an international sales team and help bring outstanding titles to readers worldwide.

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group, with 11 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity. Hachette UK is part of Hachette Livre, the world's third largest trade and educational publisher. As well as our headquarters in Carmelite House, London, and our state-of-the-art book distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, we have recently opened five new offices in Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The UK region also includes offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, the Caribbean, the UAE and Ireland.

It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and TV are the foundation of the UK's creative industries.


What you'll be doing

Reporting to the international sales director you will be required to:

• Provide administrative support to the international sales director
• Create and maintain sales material including order forms and PowerPoint presentations and email blasts, liaising with colleagues outside the department where required
• Provide general administrative support to the open market team including running all trip reports and providing cover when they are out of the office
• Deal with day-to-day customer support including processing orders and dealing with general queries
• Assist with general enquiries from the exclusive distributor for Singapore & Malaysia
• Be the point of contact for African customers and deal with orders and queries
• Produce sales data when required, including assisting with running and distribution of monthly reports
• Assist in the scheduling of any events for sales teams, customers or other groups, within agreed budgets and parameters

Who we are looking for

We’re looking for a strong team player who has excellent communication and organisational skills, attention to detail, an ability to multi-task and prioritise, and an enthusiasm for working in a fast-moving commercial environment. We need someone who is interested in publishing, loves books and can talk about them with conviction and passion.

You’ll need to be proficient with Microsoft Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint), and having a degree, publishing experience or any form of experience in an office environment would be an advantage.

The successful candidate will be keen to learn new skills as well as have a willingness to go the extra mile to ensure tasks are completed and excellent customer service is provided.


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.