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and market information to the wider team.


2 What do you enjoy about your role?


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Frances Sleigh-Senior Nosy Crow Sales manager


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You have to be quick off the mark and flexible; especially with special sales, where we often have to match up our UK printings with rights and export to make sure we’re making the most of any reprint opportunity.


3 What are you working on at the moment?


I manage supermarket, online and special sales. Day to day, that can be anything from presenting our new titles to buyers, deciding how many copies of a book to print, planning online marketing campaigns, coming up with ideas for and costing special sales, or feeding back trends


1 Describe your role.


It’s ongoing, but last year we brought managing Amazon sales in-house, and it’s been a huge project. You get an incredible amount of data from Amazon, which has really been changing how I think about who’s buying our books, and how these people look for new children’s books.


4 Which skills do you need for your role?


You need to be organised, happy to talk about books, and have an eye for an opportunity. I think there’s an idea that you need to


Commissioning Editor, Design and Photography Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury


London We are seeking an experienced academic commissioning editor to provide maternity cover for our


design and photography lists, which range from highly illustrated books for students and practitioners to research monographs. Experience of working with textbooks and illustrated books is an advantage. jobs.thebookseller.com/Bloomsbury/ commissioning-editor-design-and-photography


Publicity Manager Bloomsbury


London We are seeking a publicist looking to take the next step into the more senior role of Publicity Manager, with the


potential for fast growth in an expanding team. We want some- one who can secure dynamic and impactful media coverage for our talented authors. You will be an excellent communicator, have brilliant relationships with journalists and be full of ambition for your campaigns. jobs.thebookseller.com/Bloomsbury/publicity-manager-2


be hugely outgoing and confident to work in sales, but while you certainly need to be able to build relationships and present with confidence, you also need to be able to sit back and analyse and evalu- ate progress to plan ahead.


5 What advice would you give to those


looking to work in the industry? Look for varied opportunities. I never thought I’d work in sales but it really suits me. Stop and consider: what are your skills, what do you enjoy doing, and what would you be prepared to give a go? Also, broaden your search: there are independent publishers out there doing incredible work, and working at somewhere smaller often means you get a huge range of experience.


Senior Rights Manager (maternity cover) Pan Macmillan


London Macmillan Children’s Books is a division of Pan Macmillan and is one of the UK’s leading


children’s publishers, creating great stories for all ages for over 150 years. This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Rights Manager to join the busy and successful Rights team at Macmillan Children’s Books for a maternity cover contract (12 months fixed term), with the opportunity to sell across our novelty, picture book, fiction and non- fiction lists. You will be responsible for co-edition and sub-licence sales in agreed territories, and you must have a proven publishing rights background with at least 5 years of co-editions sales experience. The role will involve international travel. You should have plenty of self-initiative, be a great team player and have excellent communication skills.


Key tasks of the role will include but are not limited to:  Sell co-edition and translation rights  Maximise rights sales turnover and profit for agreed territories, reaching and exceeding sales targets


 Research and identify prospective new customers and exploit potential for growth


jobs.thebookseller.com/PanMac/senior-rights-manager


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