Key account manager

Closing date for applications: 7th December 2025

Salary: £35,000 - £38,000 depending on experience

Join Bloomsbury UK's sales team and play a vital role in shaping strategy and leading key accounts to drive the growth and success of its standout children's lists.

A key member of the UK sales team, the key account manager will sell all Bloomsbury consumer children’s, non-consumer children’s and agency titles to select key accounts. They will contribute to decision-making, planning and strategy from acquisition through to publication and will also work closely with counterparts on the adult consumer, digital and special sales teams to drive overarching retail strategy as well as delivering growth for the children’s lists. This role will report in to the head of sales, children’s, who reports into the sales director, children’s.


Responsibilities

• Contribute to achieving and exceeding the annual children’s consumer and children’s education sales budgets by managing profitable sales of titles into selected key accounts
• Negotiate and deliver promotional and range deals to secure best possible space and marketing activity for Bloomsbury titles
• Liaise with the publicity & marketing teams to ensure market-leading execution of shared strategic title plans in order to hit ambitious targets and maximise sales
• Conduct annual strategic reviews of key accounts’ business with Bloomsbury and make recommendations to drive sales in all forward strategic customer plans
• Participate in the whole publishing process – from acquisition to publication, working closely with colleagues from the editorial, marketing and publicity departments across both children’s consumer and non-consumer divisions

Knowledge, skills & experience

• Experience of UK retail account management
• Excellent communicator who is confident with dealing with people at all levels, both virtually and in person
• Strong presentation skills
• Excellent time-management, prioritisation and organisational skills, with a close eye for detail and keen awareness of deadlines
• Ability to build effective relationships with key external contacts as well as in-house colleagues
• Experience of multi-tasking and prioritising a busy workload
• Strong numerical skills
• Strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, Word and Teams

Additional information

The role is a full-time, permanent position. The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid-working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are Mondays and Tuesdays.

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 on Sunday 7th December 2025. For best results, please use a desktop to apply as some mobile browsers may not fully support the application portal. Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.


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: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)
• 25 days holiday and 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
• Learning & Development - Free access to LinkedIn Learning, BookMachine Campus, InRehearsal & IPG Skills Hub
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Ride to Work Scheme
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• EAP Advice and Counselling

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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