Sales operations administrator, Bloomsbury Professional & Digital Resources

Contract type: The role is a full-time, permanent position

Salary Range: £28,000 - £30,700

Location: Oxford

An exciting opportunity to work as part of a friendly team supporting our global sales and marketing efforts in the areas of Academic and Professional publishing.

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names.

Our mission is to be a creative, entrepreneurial, independent publisher of books, audiobooks and digital content of excellence and originality and to bring these works to a worldwide audience. Our purpose is to inform, educate, entertain and inspire readers of all ages and backgrounds. We champion a life-long love of reading and learning and seek to help build a reading culture with all the benefits which that brings society.

We are looking for a new Sales Operations Administrator, who is a self-starter and is excited by the entrepreneurial nature of Bloomsbury Publishing.

Our goal is to develop and implement strategies that ensure operational efficiency across the Bloomsbury Digital Resources and Professional sales and marketing teams, as well as providing support to the management team via sales reporting and analysis.

The role will work across Bloomsbury Professional and Digital Resources, working closely with and reporting into the Associate Sales Operations Manager.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support for the Associate Sales Operations Manager
• Creation and distribution of weekly and monthly sales reports
• Point of contact with third-party invoicing partner, filtering and distributing queries
• Beta testing new processes and systems
• Creation of trial products and Dashboard maintenance in Salesforce
• Tracking and reporting of a broad range of sales data and Key Performance Indicators
• Sales support as needed
• Overseeing internal inboxes, circulating useful information to the sales teams
• Systems used: Salesforce, Excel, Tableau, Biblio, Outlook, among others.
  
  

Knowledge, skills and experience

• A confident, creative, collaborative person with excellent communication, analytical, and organisational skills
• A self-starter with a proven ability to work independently, meet deadlines, and prioritize workload
• Strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel, Word and Teams
• Experience using Salesforce and Tableau would be helpful but not essential

The role is based at our Oxford office, Kemp House, Chawley Park, Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9PH

There is 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: Wednesday and Thursday

Please apply with a CV (Word or PDF format only) and answer the application questions via our website detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 on Thursday 16th of April 2026.

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.

Bloomsbury Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

Working Pattern

• Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

• 25 days holiday
• 3.5 days Christmas company holiday

Other Benefits

• 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

For additional benefits see our careers page

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

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

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.