Publisher

SUMMARY

Our client is hiring a Publisher to join the team.

A suitable candidate should be a motivated and multi-skilled individual that meets the requirements of the role.

DUTIES TO INCLUDE

• Identifying and evaluating market opportunities for potential titles.
• Review book proposals and manuscripts for suitability for the company’s list, solicit proposals from authors and negotiate contracts with authors or agents.
• Knowledge of publishing industry standards and best practices, as well as an understanding of how to identify and resolve conflicts.
• Managing relationships with authors, agents, editors, reviewers, and other publishing partners.
• Experience with project management, including identifying milestones and making sure tasks are completed according to schedule.
• Negotiating contracts to acquire new titles and manage existing ones.
• Overseeing the design, editing, production, and marketing of the book project including the selection of title pages, cover design, interior layout design, etc.
• Publishing all products that are available for sale across the relevant sites and territories, with the correct: Image, video, and product information including category attributes.
• Working with a studio, buying, marketing, IT and the warehouse to ensure all priorities are published online with business requirements.
• Managing any problem styles through to resolution to ensure all products are available for sale.
• Manually separate each colourway of each product to show separately on the website where required.
• Holding any products which may be held for launches.
• Through effective relationships across the brand and understanding of all business needs, continually strives to identify improvements to processes for the job role.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

ESSENTIAL

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Accurate forecasting of revenues.
• Understanding and interpreting customer insight.
• Skilled people manager.
• Highly organized and cool under pressure.
• Understanding of product market and key drivers for our customers.
• You must be able to keep to deadlines and you should be able to pick things up quickly and to multi-task.
• A great listener and willing learner.
• You must have integrity and a passion for accuracy.
• Ambitious with a real drive to succeed in this role.

DESIRABLE

• B2B media and/or capital markets experience.
• Experience in global sales and business development.
• Experience in sales team management.

Experience developing and launching new