Key Account Executive (12 month FTC)

Hachette UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading publishing group as a Key Account Executive on a 12-month contract. In this dynamic role, you'll support operations for key retail partnerships, manage orders, and collaborate with internal teams on various campaigns. We seek a confident communicator with a passion for books and excellent organizational skills.

Benefits

28 annual leave days

Private medical insurance

Community days

Summer hours

Retail discounts

Cycle to Work scheme

Training library access

Development programmes

Up to 70% off book purchases

Season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Comfortable multitasking in a fast-paced environment.
• Eager to learn and contribute ideas.
• Publishing experience is a plus but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day operations of the retail partnership.
• Ensure orders are placed and coordinate sales materials.
• Produce and distribute weekly sales reports.

Skills

Communication

Organizational Skills

Attention to Detail

Customer Focus

Education

Experience in Sales Support or Customer Service

Job description

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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 Hachette Learning 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 book distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, we have recently opened five new offices in Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The UK region also includes offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, the Caribbean, and Ireland.

It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and TV are the foundation of the UK's creative industries.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Waterstones Key Account Director for Hodder & Stoughton and Octopus Divisions, you will play a vital role in supporting the day-to-day operations of this key retail partnership. This is a dynamic position with wide-ranging responsibilities. You will ensure that orders are placed, will coordinate sales materials and presentations, and will produce and distribute weekly sales reports. You will also manage the supply and distribution of proofs and will collaborate with internal teams—including production, marketing, and publicity—to support a wide range of joined-up campaigns, announcements, competitions, bookseller outreach initiatives, and special editions.

Who we are looking for

We’re looking for a confident communicator and team player with excellent organisational skills and strong attention to detail. You should be comfortable multitasking and managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. A passion for books and the publishing industry is essential, along with a customer-focused mindset and a willingness to go the extra mile. You should be eager to learn, take initiative, and contribute ideas. While experience in a commercial, sales support, or customer service role is desirable, publishing experience is a plus but not essential.

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
• 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
• 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!

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.

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 www.booktradeentrysupport.org

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Industries

  Book and Periodical Publishing

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