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10.02.17 JOBS IN BOOKS JOBS in BOOKS
Marketing Offi cer £Competitive, London
We are looking for a unique person to join our London team as a marketing offi cer, focussing on our education and book fairs areas. You’ll be a dynamic and creative thinker, full of ideas and exceptional organisational skills that will help us deliver outstanding marketing and PR campaigns across our businesses.
jobs.thebookseller.com/scholastic/marketing-offi cer
Educational Sales Consultant £Competitive, home-based (Staffordshire)
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, which furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. We are looking to recruit a Primary Educational Sales Consultant to sell our highly regarded and successful range of
publishing into primary schools.
jobs.thebookseller.com/OUP-educational-sales
Assistant Editor/Editor £Competitive, London
Harlequin Mills & Boon (a division of HarperCollins) are looking for an assistant editor or editor, depending on experience, for the series acquisition team (acquiring historical, cherish, modern and medical romance).
jobs.thebookseller.com/HC/editor International Sales
and Marketing Manager £Competitive, London
Hachette UK is looking for a new member of the group international sales team to fi nd new ways of selling and marketing a wide range of the group’s non-fi ction lists to specialist accounts.
jobs.thebookseller.com/hachette-int-sales-manager
Editorial Assistant/Assistant Editor, Social Science £Competitive, Yorkshire
We are currently recruiting for an Editorial Assistant/Assistant Editor for our newly-formed, highly dynamic Books Division, working within the Social Sciences team.
jobs.thebookseller.com/Emerald/editorial-assistant
Senior Commissioning Editor/ Commissioning Editor £Competitive, Yorkshire
We are currently recruiting for a senior commissioning editor/commissioning editor (level dependant on experience) for our newly-formed, highly dynamic books division, working within the business, management and economics team.
jobs.thebookseller.com/Emerald/commissioning-editor EDITORIAL EDITORIAL
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Maureen Baker Executive assistant Octopus Publishing Group
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Describe your role I report to the chief executive and support her four board of directors. My role entails the usual PA support but more than that I am involved in project management and event organising.
What do you like best about your role? Being the oracle—well that’s what some have called me! I have worked with chief executive Alison Goff for over 10 years and it’s true to say I know every person employed by Octopus and if anybody needs anything they will invariably come to me fi rst. I love that I am left to carry out my work and run my projects single-handedly and with the full support of Alison. Meeting, greeting and becoming friends with some of our authors is a real treat too. It is such a good time for Octopus as we are having success after success with some of our titles at this point in time and I have never been happier.
Which new projects are you working on at the moment? Apart from organising the numerous staff events for this year, I am currently looking after elements of our annual sales conference, supporting the marketing team. The redesign of our reception area, which looks fantastic already, has also given me an added task of choosing and ordering about 160 titles from the warehouse. I am just waiting for the tower of boxes to arrive at my desk!
Which skills do you need to work as an executive assistant? Good administrative skills are a must and accuracy is important. Excellent organisational skills and diary juggling especially if you have five executives to look after. An executive assistant can be classed as the offi ce manager these days and would be involved in pretty much every aspect of the business. Don’t forget that all important smile…it works wonders.
What advice would you give to those looking to work in the industry? From an executive assistant’s point of view, I would say don’t be fussy on what level you want to start off at. Whether it’s supporting the c.e.o., a board director or manager, you will not regret working in this industry.
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