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Closing date: 3rd May 2024Salary: £27,600Location: Hybrid working model in the London Bridge officeJob type: 12 months fixed term contract Build your commercial sales knowledge and gain exposure to multiple publishing divisions at HarperCollins in this role. This Sales Executive position will provide admin support to the Open Market sales team and act as a point of contact for our customers including providing regular flow of information and sales materials. This role will cover the HarperCollins Children’s Books, HarperFiction, HarperNonFiction, William Collins &amp; 4th Estate, Harlequin and Farshore divisions. The role covers the Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Caribbean and Latin American markets. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is looking to secure their first role in publishing, working in the British Book Awards 2023 winner of Exporter of the Year team. This role will provide the opportunity to build commercial sales knowledge and gain exposure to multiple publishing divisions. This role may involve attending book fairs and supporting across wider sales-based projects from time to time.   Responsibilities<ul><li>General sales administration including answering customer queries, raising proformas and liaising with Customer Services to support both the UK and overseas based sales managers.</li><li>Produce and maintain sales material including order forms, sales presentations and the Schools and Libraries catalogue.  This will include building strong relationships with the publishing divisions to ensure information and images are correct and up to date.</li><li>Running reports to share with the team (and/or customers where appropriate) including subscription and sales, supressed titles, regular schedule change notifications so they are aware of the latest pub dates, prices, formats, and additions etc.</li><li>Work with European Sales Manager on provision of material for customer trade catalogues.</li><li>Assisting with preparations and planning for London Book Fair and Frankfurt Book fair.</li><li>Assist Sales Managers with trip preparation and follow-up as required.</li><li>Create and send email blasts and newsletters to customer base on a regular basis.</li><li>Work with each divisional contact to request, allocate and send marketing materials to customers including proofs, point of sale material, giveaways etc.  Then alerting customers to what is available and tracking their requests.  This will also involve maintaining customer mailing lists and either providing details to external mailing house or carrying out mailings from the office. </li><li>Work with Marketing &amp; Communications Manager and Sales Exec to put together sales catalogues for Bookfairs.</li><li>Collate and share book assets with Sales Managers and customers.</li></ul> Knowledge, skills and experience<ul><li>Experience of working within an office environment</li><li>Administration experience</li><li>Knowledge or experience of customer service practices [preferred not essential]</li><li>Interest and passion for books and keen to develop knowledge of the industry</li><li>Organisation and time management including being able to multi-task and prioritise</li><li>Communication and inter-personal skills both written and verbal</li><li>Good eye for detail</li><li>Creative thinking and suggest new ideas with ability to use initiative</li><li>Problem solving skills</li><li>Literate in Microsoft Office</li></ul><h2> </h2>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 internships or entry level positions. For more information visit  <a href="mailto:recruitment@harpercollins.co.uk" target="_blank">https://www.btbs.org/</a>If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to <a href="mailto:recruitment@harpercollins.co.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@harpercollins.co.uk</a> with subject heading ‘Vacancy Query’ plus the job title and we will aim to get back to you within 5 working days.Please note, if you are interested in the role you would need to submit your application via Applied. We do not accept email applications.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.

Glasgow Office 

Honley

Dublin

HarperCollins Publishers UK

HarperCollins

200 Years of HarperCollins

Sales executive, Open Markets

Closing date: 3rd May 2024Salary: £35,000- £47,000 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. This is an exciting opportunity to work in the Group Sales department, working across the Headline and Quercus divisions.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.It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and TV are the foundation of the UK's creative industries.We are looking for a creative and motivated salesperson to maximise sales through Waterstones across the Headline and Quercus lists, working on fiction brands from Neil Gaiman to Elly Griffiths, as well as across a broad non-fiction list.Responsibilities will include achieving the Waterstones sales budgets across the Headline and Quercus divisions; fostering relationships with key Waterstones head office contacts and booksellers, and working closely with internal sales, marketing, editorial and publicity departments to drive Waterstones sales with enthusiasm, creativity and commercial expertise. What we're looking for<ul><li>A proven sales track record</li><li>Experience in Waterstones account management</li><li>Experience in building strong customer relationships</li><li>Commercial awareness and strong analytical skills</li><li>Good interpersonal and communication skills and a willingness to work as a team player</li><li>Excellent organisational and time-management skills with a meticulous eye for detail</li></ul> What we offerOur staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:<ul><li>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)</li><li>Generous pension schemes</li><li>Rent deposit loans</li><li>2 community days per year</li><li>Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)</li><li>Retail discounts through Hachette rewards</li><li>Cycle to Work scheme</li><li>Eye care vouchers</li><li>Wide-ranging training library</li><li>Development programmes (including mentoring)</li><li>Up to 70% off book purchases</li><li>A charity bookshelf</li><li>12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks</li><li>Season ticket loans</li><li>And much more!</li></ul> Our commitmentHachette 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.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 <a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a>

Carmelite House

Hachette UK

Key account manager / director (12 month FTC)

2 Business Development / Sales / Rights / Legal Fixed term contract Opportunities