Sales Assistant, UK Consumer Sales

The Vacancy

UK Sales Assistant, UK Consumer Sales

The opportunity

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

Sales Assistants perform a key support role within the wider UK Sales team working across all [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Consumer titles. The role will include assisting on the day-to-day administration and operations of the team and our customers. This particular appointment will support one specific area of publishing, i.e. Adult publishing and will report in to the Senior Key Account Manager, UK Sales.

This is a superb opportunity to join a high performing UK Sales team of a top 5 UK publisher and to work in a vibrant and successful publishing sales environment.

The role

• General support for the Adult Consumer, Special Interest and Head of Zeus Sales Team
• Administration support for supermarket accounts
• Fielding queries and processing orders
• Preparing presentations for retailers and internal briefings
• Preparing sales figures for the Sales team and senior sales colleagues on request
• Responding to ad hoc requests for book samples/Advance Information (AI) sheets/book jackets
• Assisting at events and signings across the Sales department and organising stock
• Absence cover for colleagues as required e.g. holidays/flexi Fridays
• General ad hoc admin and UK Sales tasks for whole team

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Excellent communicator who is confident with dealing with people at all levels, particularly on the phone and over email/video
• Excellent attention to detail and focused on efficiency at all times
• Strong time-management, prioritisation and organisational skills with keen awareness of deadlines
• Ability to adapt to changing daily tasks
• Strong numerical and written skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Teams, and beneficial to have knowledge of internal systems such as Biblio and Nielsen Bookscan
• Experience in publishing or book trade environment helpful

Additional information

The role is a full time, permanent position.

Salary per annum: £27,000

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

This position is eligible for [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s Rental Deposit Loan Scheme. To assist candidates who want to start and to establish a career in publishing, [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] offers an interest-free rental deposit to support securing somewhere to live. The rental deposit loan can be up to £3,000 and will be paid back over 2 years.

Please apply with a CV (Word or PDF format only) and answer the application questions via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 on Monday 16th of February 2026.

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[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

The Company

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Plc.

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] 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. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s Academic division, it publishes under [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names. Read Our Story for how it all began.

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is committed to creating a working environment that stimulates creativity and collaboration, is respectful of difference, is inclusive and ethical in its practice, and promotes well-being.

Please read more on our Missions and Values here.

Please read our environmental policy here.

Our Benefits

• Pension
• Flexible Working
• Life Insurance
• Staff Discount on Books
• Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP)
• Bike to Work

Employee Testimonials

Here’s what some of our employees had to say about joining [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]:

“It’s a friendly team, I feel part of a community and there’s such a breadth and variety of publishing” - Marketing Executive, Academic

“There is a passion for books and authors. People want to read and that comes from the top” - Commissioning Editor, Special Interest

“[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] has a strong International outlook, it’s good to be part of a global publishing team.” - Intern, Education

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