Group Sales Executive

Working closely with the Group Retail Sales Director, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of selected Key Accounts as well as supporting the wider account base to drive sales and ensure delivery of our overall profit and sales goals. You will be liaising closely with divisional sales teams as well as Commercial, Inventory and Sales Operations colleagues.

We are looking for a candidate who is customer focused, strategic and proactive with an ambitious, commercial mindset. This includes the ability to build customer relationships, combined with strong organisational skills. Meticulous attention to detail, the ability to multi-task and prioritise and an ability to manage workload to hit deadlines are essential. The role also calls for frequent liaison with internal stakeholders and as such, we're looking for someone with excellent communication skills and ideally previous experience working closely with publishing colleagues.

A true team player who is happy to support the rest of the team when needed, with an enthusiasm for working in a fast-moving commercial environment, the successful candidate will be committed to building internal and external relationships, supporting Hachette Sales strategy and beating sales budgets.

Excellent Microsoft Office skills (especially Excel and PowerPoint) and data analysis skills are essential and we are looking for someone with proven experience in a publishing sales environment and demonstrable presentation skills and sales analysis experience.

About Hachette UK

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.

We're made up of 12 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.

Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Orion, which won Publisher of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards; Little, Brown; John Murray Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Headline; Quercus; Octopus, Bookouture and Dialogue Books. They publish fiction and non-fiction in digital, audio and print format, from the world's best and most diverse authors, including Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O'Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling, Colson Whitehead, and Malala Yousafzai. Hachette Children's Group publishes a wide and vibrant range of books for children across all age ranges, while Hodder Education is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools.

Hachette UK is part of Hachette Livre, the world's third largest trade and educational publisher. As well as our headquarters in Carmelite House, London, and our state-of-the-art book distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, we have recently opened five new offices in Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The UK region also includes offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, the Caribbean, and Ireland.

It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and TV are the foundation of the UK's creative industries., The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org

From £28,000 dependent on experience (+bonus +benefits),

• 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.