Pan Macmillan Careers

Pan Macmillan is an international consumer book publisher based in the UK, publishing a very broad range of books in all formats for today’s readers

Work with us

Everyone who works at Pan Macmillan has a part to play in publishing books that inspire, entertain, educate, inform and comfort. The process begins with our editors and includes designers, production specialists, the rights team who sell our authors’ IP and the legal and contracts teams who protect it, our sales teams who get the books into shops and online retailers around the world, our publicity and marketing colleagues who engage with potential readers for every one of our books and our colleagues in our distribution centres who get our books into the hands of readers everywhere.

Some of the benefits we offer

- 25 days annual leave increasing with years of service + bank holidays
- Generous pension scheme
- 13 weeks company sick pay and discounted private medical insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and Mental Health First Aiders
- Life insurance – 4 x base salary
- Group income protection scheme
- Enhanced family-friendly policies
- Flexible working hours and summer hours (early finish during summer months)
- Volunteer Days
- Learning, development and training opportunities including mentoring
- 75% off all Macmillan books and regular staff book sales (highly reduced rates)
- Season ticket loan/advance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Onsite health checks, flu jabs and massages
- Eyecare contributions
- Discounts on shopping, Tastecard+ and gym memberships; Christmas club savings
- Free breakfast and fruit at our office
- Seasonal parties, author visits and signings
- Give As You Earn
- Employee referral scheme

Workplace & Culture

We pride ourselves not just in winning awards and publishing the bestselling books in the market, but also on the wellbeing and satisfaction of everyone who works with us. This is a company where all voices are heard and new, creative ideas are welcomed.

We seek to recruit and develop talent from all backgrounds, creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. This has a profound impact on our perspective and ideas, encouraging us to learn from each other and to nurture the best talent leading us to publish books that appeal to the broadest possible readership.

Our mission is to publish the very best authors and illustrators successfully and sustainably because we believe that books enrich people’s lives and help build empathy and understanding.

Our values

To ensure that everyone who works at Pan Macmillan delivers on our mission and shares the same goals, we have developed a set of values that define our working culture and are the foundation of our publishing. These values were derived in consultation with the whole company and they are deliberately illustrated in a circle to underline a lack of hierarchy in importance.

Making a Difference

Reading for Life

We work together to build awareness of the life-changing power of reading and listening.
We reach out to reluctant readers and we employ our knowledge, resources and skills to support and improve the lives of children and adults from disadvantaged communities.
Building an inclusive community

We are proud to be a vibrant and inclusive working community, where everyone feels able to be themselves and reach their full potential.
We publish authors and illustrators from all backgrounds for readers and listeners everywhere.
We reach out to communities traditionally under-represented in publishing.
Protecting our planet

We promote an ecologically-minded approach through our publishing.
For many years we have pursued ways to reduce our impact on the environment. We have been carbon neutral since 2017 and we source our paper responsibly - 100% of directly purchased and printer supplied paper in the UK and in Europe is purchased and labelled as FSC.