Closing date for applications: 10th December 2025
Salary: 35,000 - £40,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)
Location: The role will be based at our London or Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.
Bring your organisational expertise to a publishing powerhouse, working alongside designers to deliver standout covers on time and with creative excellence.
With over 150 years of ground-breaking publishing from book lovers, original thinkers and market leaders, our unwavering mission has been to publish the most compelling voices in every genre. We continue to find new ground, new audiences and new voices with every title we publish. We are passionate readers and believe in the power of words to change lives.
Hodder & Stoughton is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 10 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.
What you'll be doing
As studio manager, you will have a comprehensive overview of the production and delivery of all Hodder & Stoughton’s cover design work. You will oversee the workflow of our designers and freelancers to ensure covers are delivered on time and within budget. Acting as the go-to for queries, you will help to balance workloads, identify priorities and improve processes. You will also be responsible for maintaining a high level of accuracy across design data, including schedules on Biblio, budgets and invoices.
Responsibilities include:
- Overview and management of workflow across the design team
- Setting priorities and driving adherence to critical path
- Managing freelance resource and contracts
- Creating agendas and minutes for the weekly meetings
- Dealing with reprint and third-party rights requests
- Ensuring invoices are paid on time
- Developing and creating processes to improve efficiencies in the team
Who we are looking for
You will have experience working in a fast-paced environment and you are very comfortable multi-tasking with strong organisational and project management skills. You’ll be confident in developing processes to create an efficient, effective workflow for everyone.
The ideal candidate will have knowledge of book design workflow and will need to communicate well and build positive working relationships at all levels. It’s important that you are able to take initiative and problem-solve. The ideal candidate will be a confident user of Excel and the Microsoft 365 suite, with some basic knowledge of design software.
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
- Dental 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 AgeWise, Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
- Season ticket loans
- And much more!
Our commitment
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
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.
Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.
Level of experience
- Mid-Level