Key accounts manager / director (12 month fixed-term)

Closing date: 27th September at 11.59pm

Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 depending on experience (+bonus +benefits)

Location: Carmelite House in London, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and remote working (2 days) per week.

Take on a new challenge working alongside a leading publisher's sales team in this fixed-term role for someone with a proven track record of account management.

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.

We're made up of 12 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.

Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Orion, which won Publisher of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards; Little, Brown; John Murray Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Headline; Quercus; Octopus, Bookouture and Dialogue Books. They publish fiction and non-fiction in digital, audio and print format, from the world's best and most diverse authors, including Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O'Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling, Colson Whitehead, and Malala Yousafzai. Hachette Children's Group publishes a wide and vibrant range of books for children across all age ranges, while Hodder Education is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools.

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

• We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Key Account Manager or Key Account Director to join the Hachette UK sales team on a fixed term contract. 
• Reporting to the Sales Director – Little, Brown Book Group & Hachette Childrens Group, you will be responsible for management of selected UK key accounts, as well as working closely with the divisional sales director on forward-looking sales and publishing strategy. 
• You will be responsible for growing the sales across your accounts by working closely with the publishing team including editorial, marketing and publicity. 
• The right candidate will be able to deputise for Sales Director at key publishing meetings, including acquisitions, covers, publishing taskforces and any other key divisional meetings, and take responsibility for exceeding budgets and sales targets for key lists and titles.

Who we are looking for

• We’re looking for a candidate with previous account management experience, as well as someone who has a wide view of the UK market.
• The role also calls for divisional responsibility on strategy meetings and as such, we’re looking for someone with excellent communication skills and ideally previous experience on working closely with marketing, publicity and editorial colleagues.
• We’re looking for a team player with strong organisational skills, attention to detail, an ability to multi-task and prioritise, and an enthusiasm for working in a fast-moving commercial environment.
• The successful candidate will be committed to building internal and external relationships, supporting divisional strategy and beating sales budgets.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills (especially Excel and PowerPoint) and data analysis skills are essential.  

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)
• 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!

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.

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

Please include in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.