Sales coordinator

Closing date: 19 February 2026

Salary: £26,000

A pivotal coordination role supporting the effectiveness of a leading academic publisher's schools and trade sales teams.

The Sales Enablement Coordinator role supports both our schools and trade sales teams by managing key activities, processes, and procedures that strengthen overall sales effectiveness. In this position, you contribute directly to the sales process, taking on a variety of tasks while collaborating widely across the business. A core part of the role involves coordinating sales mailings and communications, including preparing and distributing newsletters, maintaining mailing lists, and tracking responses. You also work extensively with the CRM system, using it for data mining and lead qualification to help identify new opportunities.

In addition, the role includes creating sales tools, assets, and processes that enable the sales teams to work more efficiently. You will also assist in organising sales conferences, meetings, and training sessions, managing logistics, invitations, materials, and providing support on the day of each event. Beyond this, you run and maintain sales reports, ensuring that key information is accurate and accessible, and you keep shared team sites updated so that colleagues always have the resources they need.

The position also requires processing routine invoices in collaboration with the Finance team, maintaining accurate records throughout. Finally, you provide essential administrative support to the UK Sales Director, contributing to the smooth and effective operation of the wider sales function.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential:

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills.
• Highly organised, process-driven, with strong attention to detail.
• Able to prioritise and manage multiple tasks.
• Collaborative and proactive, with a positive attitude.
• Openness and adaptability to change.
• Confident user of Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams).
• The ability to learn new business systems quickly.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with CRM systems.
• Experience supporting events or training logistics is an advantage.
• Knowledge of the UK education market.

This advert may close earlier than the stated deadline, so please apply as soon as possible.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment. Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.