Closing date: 25th October
Salary: £27,000 based in London, £24,840 based in Sheffield (+bonus +benefits)
Play a key role in driving digital advertising campaigns across a number of divisions at Hachette UK with a focus on Amazon Advertising in this role.
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.
This is a varied and busy role within the Digital & Online Sales team reporting to one of two Senior Paid Advertising Managers, and collaborating with various marketing teams across the wider Hachette UK business.
Please note – there are two Sales Assistant roles available, one Permanent and one Fixed-Term for 12 months. When applying, please do specify whether you want to be considered for both roles, or one specifically.
What you'll be doing
- Supporting the Senior Managers with campaign set-up across Amazon Advertising for a number of divisions at Hachette UK, with a view to managing your own seasonal campaigns throughout the year.
- Monitoring paid advertising activity and providing clear and regular reports and updates to the marketing teams and Digital & Online Sales team.
- Working with our internal analysis teams on continued development of our reporting tools.
- Be the point of contact for marketing teams for Amazon marketing + metadata features, and work with Amazon to provide clarity & updates where needed.
- Manage the day-to-day admin & operations of the team such as taking minutes, dealing with ad-hoc queries, assisting with presentations, and more.
Who we are looking for
- We’re looking for a proactive team player with excellent communication and organisational skills, attention to detail
- The ability to multi-task and prioritise in a fast-paced and busy environment
- Proficiency in any kind of data analysis would be an advantage, as would experience in the publishing industry and/or any kind of digital or paid advertising - but the successful candidate would be a quick learner, keen to take on new skills.
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!
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.
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 include in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.
Level of experience
- Junior