Editorial Assistant/ Assistant Editor

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom hachette Full time

What you’ll be doing
You will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of administrative and editorial processes on our lists, as well as assisting the wider team. You will contribute to meetings and brainstorms (including helping to come up with IP ideas) and you will liaise with authors, agents, freelancers and internal teams to ensure high levels of care and energy across our publishing. You will be expected to master the publishing systems and the editorial and production processes that go into making a finished book. You will work closely with the Commercial Fiction team, assisting with market research and gathering data, as well as completing administrative duties including processing invoices, updating metadata, minuting meetings, checking ebooks, and dealing with contracts. You will need to regularly ead and report on submissions, and there will be the opportunity to shadow the senior editorial team on edits for existing and debut authors. In time there will also be opportunities to look after your own backlist authors. You will be expected to be proactive and have a strong understanding of commercial, and digital, fiction plus a willingness to learn and be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team. Ability to work smoothly with Production and understand the editorial to production process is essential.

Who we are looking for

Applicants must have excellent spelling and grammar and a sharp eye for detail, as well as a keen understanding and enjoyment of the digital and commercial fiction market. We value imagination, ambition and collaboration, and are looking for somebody who is eager to grow their skillset and hit the ground running.

**Please note this is not currently a commissioning role.**

What we offer
Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

- 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years’ service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years’ (+ bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- Generous pension schemes
- Rent deposit loans
- 2 community days per year
- Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
- Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Eye care vouchers
- Wide-ranging training library
- Development programmes (including mentoring)
- Up to 70% off book purchases
- A charity bookshelf
- 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including _Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing _and religious networks
- Season ticket loans
- And much more

The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Our Commitment
Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

Who we are and what we do
For over 150 years, Hodder & Stoughton has been one of Britain’s leading publishers of fiction and non-fiction.

This role will sit within the Hodder Fiction team with a focus across commercial and digital publishing, and include genres such as crime/thriller, book club and reading fiction, romantic comedies, historical fiction and general fiction.

**Hodder Fiction **publishes household names and undiscovered gems, books that sweep you away or leave you looking at the world with new eyes. We are the publishers of many brand name fiction writers, including John Grisham, Stephen King, Sophie Hannah, Mike Gayle, David Nicholls, Stephanie Garber and Lucy Score.

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