This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy, fast-paced sales team providing support to Key Accounts and Group sales functions as well as the wider and busy UK Trade and Export Sales Team for the HarperFiction and HarperNonFiction lists.

The role will require an extremely high level of organisation and detail, as well as an ability to rapidly acquire a high level of competency on company systems and confident use of Microsoft Office applications.  Most of all we’re looking for personable, bright individual who can learn quickly and use their own initiative. The candidate will ideally have a junior level of account management experience, or customer service experience as well as a love of reading, excellent inter-personal skills and be able to think creatively and bring new ideas.

This role offers the opportunity to gain great experience working on both incredible blockbuster authors (such as George RR Martin, Dawn O’ Porter, CL Taylor, Jay Shetty and Rob Beckett) as well as exciting new debut voices across our non-fiction and fiction lists within a dedicated and friendly wider team. There is also great sales experience to gain through establishing relationships with our key retail accounts as well as working with our Account Managers and Sales Directors.

Core responsibilities

• Supporting the Sales Directors and Key Account Managers

• Internal champion across brands and accounts to key stakeholders

• Create internal and external PowerPoint, presentations, and Excel reports

• Answer internal and customer queries quickly and effectively

• Assist with author signings and signed stock

• Liaise with the Field Sales team, Divisional Sales teams, Export Sales Teams, Marketing, PR, Distribution and Editorial, Commercial Finance

• Raise any required marketing PO’s

• Running reports and updating trackers

• Organising sales materials

Experience required

• Sales, administration, or customer services experience or knowlegde

Skills and Behaviours

• Keen interest in sales, publishing and reading

• Organised, efficient and pro-active

• Professional, reliable, able to work quickly under pressure and use own initiative

• Effective team player

• Good attention to detail

• Outstanding communication

• Proactivity

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 internships or entry level positions. For more information visit http://www.booktradecharity.org/