Sales Assistant - Sheffield, United Kingdom - hachette

hachette

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Sheffield, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

What you'll be doing

We are looking for an exceptional assistant to join our Hachette Group Digital and Online sales team, working across Hachette's publishing divisions.

The role is varied, you will be working with team colleagues and with the wider publishing business to ensure the highest quality and professional standards of account support for the Online and Digital sales team.

Tasks range from working closely with Amazon to optimise how our titles are displayed, to preparing for sales meetings, analysing sales patterns, running reports and generally supporting the Digital and Online sales team.

You should have an interest in digital and online sales and have an inquisitive mind and be eager to learn.

This role is a great opportunity to work in publishing sales and learn about Online and Digital sales.

Who we are looking for

Support and assist the digital and online sales team, delivering a high level of service to customers and colleagues, with a good understanding of how each function operates
Coordinate sales material (including PowerPoint presentations), liaising with colleagues outside the department where required.
Produce sales data when required, including assisting with running and distribution of monthly reports
Develop, by forming relationships with customers and sales colleagues, a knowledge of customers, markets and products, the daytoday operation of the sales team, and an understanding of the publishing process and the financial imperatives and drivers of the company
Management, use and reporting from the Amazon Vendor Central platform

Publishing and/or sales experience would be an advantage, as is any form of experience in an office environment.

You'll need to be proficient with Microsoft Office (especially Excel and PowerPoint) and ideally have some experience with data analysis.

What we offer
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 Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

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.

Who we are and what we do

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 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.

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 & Stoughton; Headline; Quercus; Octopus, Bookouture and Dialogue Books.

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.

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 adaptati