Production controller

Closing date: 10th February 2025

Salary: £28,000+ dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)

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 a production assistant looking for your next step in publishing?

At Orion, we believe every story matters. Open, agile, passionate and innovative, our mission is to bring the best publishing to the greatest variety of people. Ambitious to continually raise the bar, we believe good stories can come from anywhere and so encourage and value contributions from everybody here.

Orion is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 11 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.

Responsibilities

• Using Biblio to spec up, cost and order titles along with running reports to track their progress
• Working with key internal stakeholder and external suppliers to deliver high quality products on time and within budget
• Processing invoices
• Maintaining schedules and prioritising tasks
• Correcting and archiving files on Biblio DAM
• Produce eBooks when title needs updating and/or correcting
• Supporting the Head of Production, Production Manager and Senior Production Controllers on key projects eg print on demand and ASR (automatic stock replenishment)
• Testing system updates and new releases for Biblio

Who we are looking for

Someone who is…

• Looking to expand their prior book production experience ideally from a trade publisher. This would be ideal for a Production Assistant looking to step up.
• A natural communicator – confident in building strong relationships with colleagues, suppliers and other stakeholders
• Capable of working in a busy team environment where you are encouraged to work collaboratively
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise workload, multi-task and meet deadlines
• A creative problem solver who can offer up solutions to ensure books are cost effective, delivered in a timely fashion and remain on budget
• Meticulous about detail and able to complete tasking with thoroughness, accuracy and consistency

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
• 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

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