Key Account Executive - London, United Kingdom - hachette

hachette

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Key Account Manager for North America and 3rd Party Clients you will be responsible for maximising the sales and profitability of the Hachette UK Distributed list of titles to North America (this is the sale and distribution of HUK titles via HBG USA).

You will also manage relationships and maximise sales for some of our 3rd party clients.

In addition, you will support the Key Account Manager with their management of Hachette Book Group US Imports (this is the sale of HBG USA titles via HUK).

Key tasks:

US Distribution:

Manage the scheduling and sell in of HUK distributed titles to HBGUSA
Ensure metadata and materials are supplied to HBG according to deadlines
Build and manage relationship with HBG client services working with them to achieve sell in timelines and manage processes
Manage print confirm and key title forecasts
Monitor and analyse sales and feed back to key stakeholders

3rd Party Clients:

Develop and manage relationships with the agreed publishers
Manage the sales of the lists from early title forecasts, feedback on scheduling, prices and pub dates, input re inventory and monitoring of sales to key territories
Presenting and selling new titles on a regular basis
Dealing with general queries and information requests

The above list is not exclusive or exhaustive and the job holder may be required to undertake such other duties as may reasonably be required.

Not all tasks will be required within every division, as operating processes may vary.

Who we are looking for

We're looking for a calm, confident team player who has excellent communication and organisational skills, attention to detail, an ability to multi-task and prioritise, and an enthusiasm for working in a fast-moving commercial environment.

Ideally you will enjoy working with data from collating title metadata to analysing sales data.

We need someone who is self-motivated, committed, loves books and can talk about them with conviction and passion whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

Some sales experience is required as well as knowledge of the publishing industry.

You'll need to be proficient with Microsoft Office (especially Excel), comfortable working with numbers and ideally have some experience with Biblio.

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 London office, Carmelite House, 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 11 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 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.

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 boo