International Sales Assistant, Trade

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, well-organised and confident communicator with excellent time-management skills and attention to detail to work within our dynamic and ambitious International Sales department.

The International Sales Assistant performs a key support role within the wider International Sales team, working across all Bloomsbury Consumer, Head of Zeus and Special Interest titles, and with our client publishers Alma Books and Titan Books. The role will include assisting in the day-to-day administration and operations of the team and supporting sales to customers around the world, including bookshops, distributors and online retailers. This role will report to the Head of International Sales (Special Interest).

This is a superb opportunity to join the high performing and award-winning International Sales team of a top 5 UK publisher and to work in a vibrant and successful publishing sales environment. Based in our Bedford Square office this will be a hybrid-working position.

The role
• General support for the International Sales team
• Fielding queries from customers and processing orders through our distributor
• Working closely with the warehouse and Bloomsbury Operations team to be sure of successful supply to all accounts
• Maintaining the key titles order form and presentation
• Creating slides for internal sales meetings
• Preparing sales figures for customer meetings and book fairs
• Running title sales reports when requested
• Preparing the team for book fairs and attending London and Frankfurt book fairs as required
• Responding to requests for catalogues / book samples / title information sheets / book jackets
• Representing the International Sales Team at ad hoc internal meetings

The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid working pattern of 2 days office based (or fully office based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are: Monday and Tuesday

We’d love it if you had…

• Excellent communicator who is confident with dealing with people at all levels, particularly on the phone/Teams and email
• Excellent attention to detail with a focus on efficiency and a keenness to learn
• Excellent time-management, prioritisation and organisational skills, with a close eye for detail and keen awareness of deadlines
• Experience of multi-tasking and prioritising a busy work-load with competing demands on your time
• Ability to adapt to changing daily tasks
• Strong numerical skills, written and verbal communication skills
• Strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Teams
• Some prior publishing experience is desirable for this role

Employer details

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names. Read Our Story for how it all began.