International Sales and Marketing Executive
Your team:
You'll be part of an award-winning and vibrant team focused on international sales of books in the English language. Our focus is on maximising the global reach of our fantastic publishing programme and fostering strong relationships with partners throughout the bookselling chain, from major retailers and distributors through to influencers and independent booksellers.
Your role:
As an International Sales and Marketing Executive, you'll be an integral part of the International Sales Team. You will support our efforts in marketing, publicity, and sales, helping to broaden our reach directly to retailers and consumers. You'll work closely with the Head of International Sales and Trade Marketing to create powerful marketing materials, manage digital assets, and enhance our sales strategy, contributing significantly to our team's objectives and priorities.
Your key responsibilities:
Support the Head of International Sales on the briefing and creation of ad hoc catalogues, adverts, digital assets, point-of-sale, and general marketing materials
Distribute sales materials and maintain regular communication with sister companies and key accounts
Drive content plan and track engagement with the Pan Macmillan Export Instagram
Provide administrative and logistic support for book fairs and author events
Enhance direct-to-consumer engagement by developing an international influencer network, managing NetGalley and blogger requests, and maintaining a tracker for literary festival appearances to support targeted publicity efforts
Support retailer engagement through digital asset coordination and author video promotions
Analyse engagement and manage a selection of digital newsletters, ensuring effective communication of new titles.
Essential experience, abilities and knowledge you’ll need to succeed:
Excellent administration and organisational skills
Ability to multitask, juggle a busy workload, and stay calm under pressure
Ability to communicate confidently and build strong working relationships
Strong attention to detail
Flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to react quickly when required
Design skills and experience working with Canva or Photoshop
Passion for books.
Desirable skills we’d love you to have:
Experience with working to deadlines
Have used or are familiar with Google for Work (Gmail and Google applications)
Experience working as a bookseller or in publishing.
What you’ll get in return:
In return we can offer you a range of great projects, a supportive and collaborative working environment as well as a competitive salary and benefits package.
Salary starting from: £29,000
Closing date: 22 October 2024
Some of the benefits we offer:
28 days’ annual leave increasing with years of service + bank holidays
Generous pension scheme
Discounted private medical insurance
Group income protection scheme
Enhanced family pay and leave
Flexible working hours and summer hours (early finish on a Friday during summer months)
2 Volunteer Days per year
75% off all Pan Macmillan books and regular staff book sales (highly reduced rates)
Season ticket loan/advance
Cycle to work scheme
Discounts on shopping, Tastecard+ and gym memberships; Christmas club savings
Daily free breakfast and monthly company lunch
This is a full time, permanent role, and will be based in our offices in Farringdon, London, with some flexibility to work from home each week.
All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to live and work in the UK in order to be considered for this role.
At Pan Macmillan, we are highly committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion at every level of our organisation. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Our efforts to promote DEI are ongoing, and we continually strive to learn and improve our policies and practices. You can read our full Diversity & Inclusion Pledge here: https://www.panmacmillan.com/about/diversity-and-inclusion
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- Department
- International Sales
- Locations
- Farringdon, London
Farringdon, London
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.
International Sales and Marketing Executive
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