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Salary: £24,000 (+bonus + benefits)
 
This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside a multi-disciplined, award-winning team responsible for a wide variety of publishing.
Working within the award-winning Communications team to lead on administrative responsibilities within the department to ensure that all processes and procedures are managed accurately, efficiently, and professionally. You will also work closely with both the Communications and Publicity Directors to support on publicity campaigns, having direct input on both creative and logistical sides of our campaigns.
 
Knowledge, skills, experience
<ul>
<li>The ideal candidate will be extremely efficient and bring initiative, creativity and passion to the role</li>
<li>The ability to multi-task, work calmly under pressure and be a strong team player are also vital as is a good knowledge of Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint</li>
<li>A confident self-starter, you will thrive in a busy environment and will have a demonstrable interest in publishing and an awareness of how Communications can affect the success of a book</li>
<li>You will be responsible, enthusiastic, have excellent organisational skills and a willingness to jump in and help wherever needed</li>
<li> Strong attention to detail is key, as is the ability to work both independently and as part of a larger team</li>
<li>You will relish the opportunity to travel with authors, help manage schedules and attend a range of events, some of which will be out of normal office hours</li>
<li>We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, and who works well as part of a close-knit team</li>
<li>Good social media skills and telephone manner are also vital</li>
</ul>
 
What we offer
Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this. In addition to 25 days annual leave days per year + bank holidays, we have an extensive list of benefits that include: a wide-ranging training library, development programmes including mentoring, Cycle to Work vouchers, Private Medical Insurance, eye care vouchers, up to 70% off book purchases, a charity book shelf, 2 volunteer days per year to use at your charity of choice, many employee networks to join, summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months!), season ticket loans, rent deposit loans, generous pension schemes and much more!
Please note, we're currently recruiting for this role in one of the following Hachette UK office locations: London, Sheffield, Newcastle, Manchester or Edinburgh.
Who we are and what we do
The Orion Publishing Group, a division of Hachette UK, publishes commercial, award-winning popular fiction and non-fiction and is home to bestselling authors and brands such as Ian Rankin, Adam Kay, Michael Connelly, Cathy Bramley, Noel ‘The Supervet’ Fitzpatrick, Glastonbury Festival, the Ordnance Survey, Candice Carty-Williams and the Hairy Bikers.
In 2021 we won the Publisher of the Year award at the British Book Awards, and our award-winning Communications team has a proud track record of creating high-impact, creative, sales-driving campaigns to help bring our books to readers.
You’d be working in a creative and dynamic environment, utilising a wide variety of essential publicity skills to reach the widest possible readership.
 
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 <a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a>
 
Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.

Hachette UK

Communications assistant

Salary: depending on experience
Closing date: 23th May at midnight
 
Are you looking to bring your UX/UI design skills to the television industry? 
STV Player is the UK’s fastest-growing broadcaster streaming service, giving viewers in Scotland the opportunity to watch their favourite STV shows, live or on demand. Across the UK, the free service offers viewers an extensive catalogue of content from around the world, including over 3,000 hours of high-quality drama, sport and factual entertainment series.
STV Player is now pre-installed in three quarters of the UK’s connected TV homes and is available on all major platforms, including Sky Q, Now TV, Virgin Media, Amazon Fire TV and Freeview Play. 
Our content library has grown to over 150 boxsets, including US thriller The Bridge, Irish legal drama Striking Out and Australian eight-parter The Slap. Viewers can upgrade to STV Player+, a subscription service which offers the opportunity to watch Player content advert-free, download shows for offline viewing, and also watch them abroad.
The STV Player is managed, developed and editorially controlled by the STV Digital team. In the role of UX/UI Designer you’ll be working with our in-house development teams, from concept to completion, to transform the STV Player into a world-class content destination. Your challenge is to blend leading edge technology with intuitive user interfaces and engaging user experiences.  
As part of the User-experience and Design team, you will be responsible for defining, and seeing through to their implementation, tactical and strategic user-experience and design updates to the STV Player. You will be part of the Product team and as such, will be a critical part of the STV Player development strategy.
 
Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>Identify user-experience improvements by</li>
<li>Working with the Data &amp; Insights teams</li>
<li>Gathering user feedback, whether via desk or field research. </li>
<li>Contribute to the product roadmap, so that your input is taken into consideration</li>
<li>Prototype solutions for user-testing</li>
<li>Conduct design QA to make sure everything that is released meets our pre-defined standards.</li>
</ul>
 
Knowledge, skills, experience
<ul>
<li>Previously worked on a live, customer-facing product, preferably spanning multiple devices form-factor</li>
<li>Familiar with the most common software development project management frameworks, and how the UX and design process fit with them.</li>
<li>Excellent communication skills, adaptable and able to work well within a small team, as well as establishing wider stakeholder relationships.</li>
<li>Ability to translate business requirements and user objectives into clearly defined problems to be solved.</li>
<li>Demonstrated experience of gathering, synthesising and sharing research from various sources, including competitor analysis, consumer insights and analytics, so that the UX plan is evidence-based.</li>
<li>Experience of conducting user interviews, whether in groups or 1:1</li>
<li>Comfortable taking ownership of projects from requirements gathering to execution, user testing, design QA, release and iteration, working in close partnership with developers, testers and product managers to deliver on expected outcomes.</li>
<li>Highly skilled in producing UI design deliverables: sketches, wireframes, high fidelity mocks and interactive prototypes.</li>
<li>Ability to articulate the value of UX and involving real people as part of the design process - you’re driven by curiosity and like to question the “why?” of user behaviour.</li>
<li>Self motivation and ability to self manage projects and deliver work to required deadlines. </li>
</ul>
 
It would be great if you also had experience of any of the following
<ul>
<li>Facilitating / leading workshops and running design sprints.</li>
<li>Experience of designing for Video on Demand or other streaming media services.</li>
<li>Experience in designing for multiple form factors, i.e. a product stretching from a mobile to a tablet, to a 55’’ TV.</li>
<li>Experience in motion/animation design, in particular designing micro-interactions.</li>
<li>A love of television and film and an awareness of the opportunities facing the media industry</li>
</ul>
 
To apply
Please send your CV and a portfolio of your past projects, or links with an overview of your work via the apply button. 
We’re happy to talk about hybrid working to help you balance work, life, and to achieve your goals in both – we’re focused on creating an inclusive working environment where colleagues can collaborate, create and thrive to deliver results and perform at their best. 
STV is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce and to equality of opportunity for all. We encourage applications from candidates currently under-represented in our industry, so we are keen to hear from people from ethnically diverse backgrounds, disabled and/or neuro diverse people and those from a lower socio-economic background. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

UX/UI Designer

Salary: £25,000 - £28,000
 
Are you knowledgeable about and interested in books? Love working with data and Excel?
You’ll report to the head of inventory for Octopus and Hachette Children’s divisions, ensuring stock availability and a consistent, proactive inventory management approach is applied across these divisions, using data and analysis to maintain appropriate levels of stock, liaising with third parties such as warehouses and printers, and be the first point of contact for internal and external inventory queries. You’ll be responsible for inputting Print Instructions in Biblio and updating other relevant information when a print decision has been made, as well as other ad hoc projects and reporting as required.
 
Who we are looking for
We’re looking for an organised, proactive and highly numerate candidate with excellent attention to detail; someone who is process-driven and methodical, with good communication and relationship-building skills. You should be able to work under guidance and independently. You must be knowledgeable about and interested in books. You will need to be good or very good at Excel, and ideally have prior experience of Biblio and/or SAP.
 
What we offer
Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this. In addition to 25 days annual leave days per year + bank holidays, we have an extensive list of benefits that include: a wide-ranging training library, development programmes including mentoring, Cycle to Work vouchers, Private Medical Insurance, eye care vouchers, up to 70% off book purchases, a charity book shelf, 2 volunteer days per year to use at your charity of choice, many employee networks to join, summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months!), season ticket loans, rent deposit loans, generous pension schemes and much more!
Please note, we're currently recruiting for this role in one of the following Hachette UK office locations; London, Sheffield, Newcastle, or Edinburgh.
 
Who we are and what we do
The Inventory team sits in the wider Group Operations team, which provides sales support, data analysis, and stock management for Hachette’s seven major and award-winning trade publishing divisions, Little Brown, Hodder &amp; Stoughton, Orion, Headline, John Murray Press, Quercus, and Hachette Children’s Group.
Across these divisions Hachette publishes some of the most prestigious authors in the world, including Harlan Coben, Ian Rankin, Stephen King, Enid Blyton, JK Rowling, James Patterson and Stephenie Meyer.
 
About Hachette UK
Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK’s second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone, everywhere, to unlock new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.
We’re made up of 10 autonomous publishing divisions and over 50 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.
Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Orion, which won Publisher of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards; Little, Brown; John Murray Press; Hodder &amp; Stoughton; Headline; Quercus; Octopus and Bookouture. They publish fiction and non-fiction in digital, audio and print format, from the world’s best and most diverse authors, including Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O’Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling, Colson Whitehead and Malala Yousafzai.
We also publish leading authors in many specialist areas of the market, including Mental Health, Business &amp; Finance, Coaching, Autism, Dyslexia, Yoga, Fashion, Art and Photography.
Hachette Children's Group publishes a wide and vibrant range of books for children across all age ranges, while Hodder Education is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools.
Hachette UK is part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third largest trade and educational publisher. As well as our headquarters in Carmelite House, London, and our state-of-the-art book distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, we have recently opened five new offices in Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle and Edinburgh. The UK region also includes offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, the Caribbean and Ireland.
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.
 
Our culture
People at Hachette UK are incredibly proud of the contribution publishing makes to the world and we believe that embracing diversity in all its forms is the key to creating a culture that will make us a better publisher. Our people thrive in an environment that accepts and encourages the sharing of different ideas and opinions, and we publish a wide range of voices to reach the broadest audience possible.
Five years ago, we created ‘Changing the Story’, a programme of strategic policies, cultural initiatives and progressive partnerships to put diversity at the heart of everything we do. It is now one of the four pillars of our business strategy and something that every colleague is involved in from the day they join Hachette UK.
As part of ‘Changing the Story’, we have eight employee networks to foster inclusion and belonging, and to bring about ongoing change in our company and the wider industry. These include Hachette Pride, which is dedicated to sharing the voices of LGBTQ+ staff and authors, Hachette THRIVE, which supports our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and authors, and Hachette Gender Balance, which works to ensure balanced recruitment and progression for all genders within the company. Today, more than a thousand employees are members of one or more of these networks.
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 <a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a>
 
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.

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