Foreign Sales Assistant London, England
Job description
Job title: Foreign Sales Assistant
Reports to: Senior Foreign Sales Manager, Southeast Asia & China
Location: London, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square
Working pattern: Flexible home working up to three days per week
Imprint: Across all Children’s imprints
Department: Co-edition Sales
Salary range: £26,000 - £28,000 per annum (depending on experience)
General Summary
We are looking for a highly organised, creative, and proactive foreign sales assistant to join our dynamic team, selling rights and co-editions to existing and potential partners in various territories.
Key responsibilities
Assist the Foreign Rights team with the selling of subsidiary rights and co-editions, providing full administrative support to the team
Co-ordinating book fair and trip preparations and follow-up
Administer reprints across the team, attending internal reprint meetings and assisting with the coordination of reprints
Request printing costs and schedules from the Production department
Send out marketing and sales materials to customers
General office administration including database maintenance and running regular Biblio reports
Overseeing monthly invoicing and approving royalty payments in conjunction with accounts
Qualifications and Experience
Highly organised, creative and proactive
Proven track of administrative excellence
Sharp eye for detail
Great communication and numeracy skills
Language skills an advantage
Knowledge of Biblio is preferred but not essential
Bonnier Books UK is committed to building a diverse workforce through positive action. Currently, Black, Asian and Multi-Ethnic employees are under-represented in our workforce and we actively encourage applicants from these groups. For further information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Action Plan here.
Competitive Salary
Working with a team of passionate, talented people
Internal learning and development programmes
Career Development opportunities
Fun social events
At Bonnier Books UK, we believe that every book matters. We love to publish stories and content that open our eyes to new perspectives and bring us closer together. We offer a nurturing home for our authors, illustrators and brand partners, publishing bestselling books for readers and listeners everywhere. We know that fantastic stories can come from anywhere and our purpose is to bring them to as wide an audience as possible, a simple ethos that has led to us becoming one of the country’s leading publishers.
The offspring of Bonnier Books, a family-owned top-15 world publisher headquartered in Sweden, we are inspired by a rich literary heritage but not bound by convention. We think in generations rather than quarters, and strive always to operate in an open, curious way that contributes to the future of the planet and its people. As a climate-neutral publisher we are an active participant in the Science Based Target initiative, committed to a strategy to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.
