Publishing Executive

4 days ago

London, United Kingdom hachette Full time

What you’ll be doing
- Supporting our editors to ensure that our books are as good as they can be. This will include overseeing editorial schedules, managing manuscripts from copy edit stage through to typesetting / eBook conversion - focusing on producing smooth reading, error free final files and updating them. There will also be opportunities to shadow-edit and contribute ideas for cover development.
- Supporting editors with author communication - updating authors on publication plans and sales.
- Assisting editors in creating persuasive, effective product pages, marketing materials, metadata and keywords for every one of our books.
- Assisting our Digital Operations Manager to ensure that our books are distributed to as broad an audience as possible with accurate pricing and metadata.

Who we are looking for
- You will be a keen and wide-ranging reader, with an insight into which books work and why, looking for your first or second role in publishing.
- You will have impeccable attention to detail, excellent organisation skills, and the ability to prioritise a busy workload on tight deadlines.
- You will be logical and analytical in your approach to all things.
- You will love using data to enhance creativity, and challenging and changing the way things are done.
- You will have a growth mindset.

What we offer
Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this. In addition to 28 days annual leave days per year + bank holidays, we have an extensive list of benefits that include: a wide-ranging training library, development programmes including mentoring, Cycle to Work vouchers, Private Medical Insurance, eye care vouchers, up to 70% off book purchases, a charity book shelf, 2 community days per year, many employee networks to join, summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months), season ticket loans, rent deposit loans, generous pension schemes and much more

This role can be based at our London office, or at any of our new regional offices in Edinburgh, Newcastle, or Sheffield, 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
Bookouture is the UK’s fastest growing digital publisher and part of Hachette UK. We are only ten years old but we have grown rapidly every year and have now sold over 60 million books to readers worldwide. To keep up this incredible rate of growth, we’re looking for someone to join our fiction editorial team.

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