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    Commissioning Editor - London, United Kingdom - Bookouture

    Bookouture
    Bookouture London, United Kingdom

    4 days ago

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    Full time
    Description

    Who we are and what we do

    Do you understand what makes a great story? Are you interested in creating bestsellers?

    We're looking for the very best talent to join our editorial team – from both within publishing and beyond.

    Bookouture is the UK's fastest growing digital publisher, and part of Hachette UK. We have grown rapidly over the last twelve years to a team of 54 people, we have sold over 70 million commercial fiction and non-fiction books to readers worldwide, and 2023 was a record-breaking year for us. Off the back of this incredible success, we're excited to be growing our editorial team.

    What you'll be doing

  • Acquiring New Talent – Honing agent relationships and ensuring you are pursuing high-potential submissions and authors, and generating exciting IP ideas to bring the best new talent to the list with a focus on tapping into global bestselling trends in commercial fiction.
  • Editorial Collaboration – Working with authors on concepts and editorial to ensure page-turning and intriguing reads.
  • Exemplary Publishing – Maximising revenue for our authors by creating attention-grabbing, persuasive and search-optimised packages and descriptions.
  • Monitoring Performance – Constantly reviewing the success of your books by checking sales data, and leading conversations on your titles with the wider team, making changes to optimise where needed.
  • Author Management – Managing a list of authors across the whole publishing process and providing exemplary author care, including regular and timely communication.

    • Who we are looking for

  • You're a creative person with a passion for stories, able to spot trends and understand what makes a reader tick.
  • You use data to inform your work, and love using your analytical brain to understand what's working and what could be done better.
  • You're a strong communicator, capable of building good relationships and unafraid of having challenging conversations when needed.
  • You have a relentless focus on results, and on getting our books to the broadest possible readership. You're agile and reactive, thriving on change and taking risks.
  • You will be invested in diversifying our business, making our books as diverse as the range of readers we aim to reach.
  • You may have a background in working on commercial fiction in a publishing role, but this is not essential, if you can demonstrate that you have all of the other skills that we're looking for.

    • What we offer

    Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

  • 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
  • Private medical insurance
  • Generous pension schemes
  • Rent deposit loans
  • 2 community days per year
  • Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
  • Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Eye care vouchers
  • Wide-ranging training library
  • Development programmes (including mentoring)
  • Up to 70% off book purchases
  • A charity bookshelf
  • 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
  • Season ticket loans
  • And much more

    • This role can be based at our London or 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.

    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

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