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13th December 2024


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London £23,000pa


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London £50,000pa DOE


Head of Key Accounts, UK Trade Profile Books Limited


Independent Publisher of the Year Profile Books is looking for a dynamic, creative head of key accounts who loves to read and sell a broad spectrum of non-fiction and fiction. Selling to Waterstones, WHS, key booksellers and accounts


throughout the UK, you will be comfortable working with all genres, ranging from our core heavyweight non-fiction such as Mary Beard, Rashid Khalidi and Shoshana Zuboff, to commercial brands including Murdle and Ryan Holiday. In fiction, you’ll enjoy selling Torrey Peter’s literary fiction as much as crime queen Janice Hallett. We are proud that our commercial team is a close


collaboration between sales, marketing and publicity, and you will play a key part in the group. We are ambitious, responsive and tenacious, and we put relationships with booksellers and authors at the heart of all we do. A nuanced feel for the market now and where it might be going is essential, as is a deep commitment to getting books into the right places to find their readers. You will be ready to enjoy the flexibility and entrepreneurial spirit of independent publishing, and to invest deeply in the quality and success of our books and the list as a whole. We pride ourselves on being an outstanding place to work and a supportive team, driven by a love of readers, writers and ideas. This is a full-time position, with a salary of £50,000+


according to experience, and can be adapted to the right person. We’re keen to hear from a wide range of people: whether you’re in sales right now, a bookseller or doing something else completely, please apply in writing with a covering letter and your CV, to careers@profilebooks.com before 9am on 6th January, 2025.


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In this role, you will be reporting to the Head of Marketing and assisting with a range of subscriptions marketing activity. The hands-on position includes marketing across all channels including print, digital and social media as well as facilitating partnerships and attending events and exhibitions. The successful candidate will have some experience in a


marketing role and an interest in developing their subscription marketing skill set.


London £36,000pa


Publicity Manager, Sales – Head of Zeus (maternity cover) Bloomsbury Publishing


Head of Zeus is seeking a well-connected, creative and enthusiastic Publicity Manager to work across our Aries and AdAstra fiction imprints. This role is to cover a maternity leave and reports to the Head of Publicity. The successful candidate will have previous experience in a book publicity team, running publicity campaigns and delivering excellent levels of author care. They will have excellent contacts, including good relationships with sci-fi/fantasy and crime fiction event programmers and reviewers.


London From £37,000pa


Senior Commissioning Editor or Publisher, Classical Studies Bloomsbury Publishing


Classical Studies is one of our most established academic lists, publishing across the UK secondary-school and global higher-education markets. We are seeking an experienced academic Senior Commissioning Editor/Publisher to cover a maternity leave and to continue the consistent growth enjoyed in recent years. The successful candidate will have knowledge of the secondary-school market and exams, as well as academic publishing trends and development. The role will report to our Global Editorial Director for Literary Studies, Classics and Performing Arts.


London £29,500pa


Assistant Editor, Fiction – HCCB HarperCollins


A key member of the editorial team, this role provides editorial support to the Fiction publishing team and is responsible for desk editing, and project-managing final editorial stages, for all titles across the list. This position offers a rare opportunity for an accurate, organised, efficient and creative team player to step into a challenging Assistant Editor’s role in a power-house team, learning key skills for development as an editor.


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