Key Account Manager

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working pattern

25 days holiday

3.5 days Christmas holiday

Two paid Personal Wellness Days

Flexible Fridays

Work Anywhere Fortnight

Season Ticket Loan

Share save Scheme

AXA Healthcare Plan

In-house Doctor

Eye care Voucher Scheme

Job summary

A leading publishing company is hiring a Key Account Manager to enhance sales strategies across various divisions. This full-time position involves managing client portfolios, identifying business opportunities, and driving the backlist strategy. Applicants should have strong relationship-building, problem-solving, and negotiation skills, along with a good understanding of financials. This role offers a hybrid work pattern and a salary between £35,000 and £38,000 per year.

Qualifications

• Excellent client relationship building and development skills.
• Self-starter with strong initiative and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of financials and ability to negotiate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied portfolio of accounts and ensure best practices.
• Identify new business opportunities in non-trade sectors.
• Provide market insight and contribute to sales strategy.

Skills

Client relationship building

Problem solving

Negotiation skills

Commercial awareness

Knowledge of Biblio, Vista, Nielsen, Cognos

Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Job description

The Key Account Manager will contribute towards our ambitious growth strategy for the Special Sales channel working across all Bloomsbury publishing divisions to sell our extraordinary list of bestselling authors and brands. Our list encompasses Children’s, Head of Zeus, Adult Trade, Cookery and Lifestyle including the following authors: William Dalrymple, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Johan Hari, Elodie Harper, Dan Jones, SJ Maas, Madeline Miller, Poppy O’Toole, J.K Rowling and Katherine Rundell.

The candidate will have responsibility for sales made to a range of Special Sales accounts with a specific focus on driving backlist strategy in close collaboration with publishing teams.

• Manage a varied portfolio of accounts, creating and ensuring best practise is followed at all times.
• Actively identify new business opportunities in the non-trade and non-traditional retail sector.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness and an in depth understanding of P&Ls in order to build bulk print runs working closely with the UK Sales and Export teams to maximise ROI for the business.
• Represent the Special Sales team at relevant internal meetings, providing market insight, contributing to and shaping sales strategy.
• Feed into internal reporting across all publishing divisions, including, but not restricted to business reviews, acquisition discussions and weekly sales updates.

Skills, knowledge, experience

• Demonstrate excellent client relationship building and development skills.
• Self-starter, able to use initiative with excellent problem solving skills.
• Strong negotiation skills with a clear understanding of the commercials.
• Knowledge of Biblio, Vista, Nielsen and Cognos would be advantageous.
• Skilled at Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

The full job advert for this role can be viewed by clicking the ‘Apply’ button.

Bloomsbury Benefits

• Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)
• 25 days holiday
• 3.5 days Christmas company holiday
• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays
• Work Anywhere Fortnight
• Season Ticket Loan
• Share save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye care Voucher Scheme

And a range of other benefits as listed on our company website: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/connect/work-with-us/rewarding-you/

Additional information

The role is a full-time, 12 month fixed term contract position. Due to start by April 2026.

Salary per annum: £35,000 - £38,000

Application Deadline: 23:59 on Friday 23rd of January 2026

Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.