Digital Sales Assistant London, England
Job description
In the role of Digital Sales Assistant, you'll collaborate with a talented team to make sure every book reaches its full sales potential - and learn all there is to know about creating digital bestseller. We're looking not only for a data-driven detail geek, but someone who makes a habit of improving the way things are done, embraces change, and brings creativity to every problem.
What you will be doing -
Supporting our Digital Sales Manager with:
- Retail account management.
- Promotion and merchandising submissions, communications and scheduling.
- Liaising with editorial, operations marketing to ensure the smooth running and maximum impact of promotion.
- Analysing the impact of promotions.
- Analysing sales and ad data to inform package changes and pricing decisions.
- You will be a self-starter with a growth mindset.
- You will prize logical reasoning above all else, be data-driven and confident with numbers, graphs and technology.
- You will have exceptional attention to details, be highly organised, and be great at managing a varied workload with tight deadlines.
- You will be a clear and effective communicator.
- You will be driven to understand the different levers that can make a book sell.
- You have the talent to succeed in a fast-paced, commercial and creative digital business and a clear, demonstrable interest in building a career in publishing.
Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this. In addition to 28 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 community days per year, 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!
The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.
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.
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
Who we are and what we doBookouture is the UK's fastest growing digital publisher, and part of Hachette UK. We celebrated our tenth birthday and record-breaking sales in 2022, and 2023 is set to be another stellar year for us. We have grown rapidly over the last ten years; we are now a team of 50 people and have sold over 60 million commercial fiction and non-fiction books to readers worldwide. Off the back of this incredible success, and with our data-driven philosophy in mind, we're excited to be expanding and developing our commercial team.
