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04.11.16 JOBS IN BOOKS
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Bookseller £Competitive, London
Wimbledon Books, a thriving bookshop in the heart of Wimbledon Village, is seeking an experienced bookseller for a fixed-term eight month maternity cover contract starting in mid December. The position is part time and the ideal candidate will have a good working knowledge of current children’s titles and previous buying experience. A competitive salary is offered commensurate with demonstrable skills.
jobs.thebookseller.com/Wimbledonbooks/bookseller
Sales Representative £Competitive, Edinburgh
We are looking for a sales representative to join the team and carry our own (and associated publishers) range of books and maps to a wide range of retail accounts across Scotland. The main focus of the job will be across the tourist season and, with this in mind, flexible, seasonal or part-time working will be considered. Current location is not a bar to application.
jobs.thebookseller.com/Birlinn/sales-rep
Development Assistant: Editorial £Competitive, Wiltshire
As part of a small and friendly editorial team, you will work across a range of subject areas including literature, history and cultural studies. You will carry out market research on potential project ideas, assist with proposals and visit archives to research, select and assess appropriate material for new projects. Must be happy to travel.
jobs.thebookseller.com/AM/development-assistant
Inventory Manager £Competitive, London
We have two Inventory Manager Positions that we’re recruiting for here at Penguin Random House. Each role will support two of our publishing divisions, across a breadth of authors, brands and imprints – both frontlist and backlist.
jobs.thebookseller.com/PRH/inventory-manager
South West Regional Area Manager £Competitive, South West
Gardners is looking for a Regional Area Manager to account manage and develop our business across a varied mix of independent booksellers, online retailers and non-traditional booksellers in the South West. The ideal candidate will need to be able to understand the wholesale market and be commercially astute.
jobs.thebookseller.com/Gardners/south-west-RAM
North Territory Regional Area Manager £Competitive, North
Gardners is looking for a Regional Area Manager to account manage and develop a varied mix of independent booksellers, online retailers and non- traditional booksellers across the North. The ideal candidate will need to be able to understand the wholesale market and be commercially astute.
jobs.thebookseller.com/Gardners/north-RAM BUSINESS
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EDITORIAL SALES MY JOB IN Hazel Kenyon BOOKSELLING
Head of publisher account management Nielsen
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Describe your role I look after the team of account managers in Nielsen Book Research who each have a portfolio of publisher clients. We provide support and training for our clients so that they can better understand, use and apply any of our datasets to help make informed business decisions. I also do project work and manage PubTrack Digital UK, our e-book sales tracking service.
What do you like best about your role? Working with publishers is very different from my previous career in academia and books. I also love the fact that it’s so varied. Every day is different and could be spent engrossed in analysing data, presenting market trends to the book trade or at a university training publishing students on how to extract BookScan reports.
Which new areas are you working on at the moment? I’m working to expand the panel of participating publishers for PubTrack Digital UK. I’m also working with one of the account managers to put together a bespoke client presentation where we’ll use data from multiple sources to give them an understanding of how their books are performing against competitors and provide insight into what’s happening in their sector of the market. I’m also starting to work more closely with our international colleagues to help them with the servicing of publisher and retailer clients. It’s really interesting to see how differently things are done in the other BookScan territories and what we can learn from one another to bring our clients the best service.
What is it like working with so many publishers at once? It’s great. Our unique view of the trade means we all have a very good grip on who the main players are across each genre, which titles are selling well and, really interestingly, which new entrants to the market are coming up the ranks. The market is fascinating, fast-moving and never ceases to impress me with its innovation.
What advice would you give to those looking to work in the industry? I strongly believe that a good grasp of data–and, if relevant, the tools for doing that–are increasingly essential in any role, even if you don’t end up working with data. You need an awareness of the potential, audience and performance of your books at the very least.
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