Key Account Manager - Vintage

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Do you love recommending your latest read? Do you get a buzz when something you are passionate about becomes a commercial success?

And are you looking for a role offering influence at every stage of the publishing process? If so an exciting opportunity has arisen for a Key Account Manager to join the Vintage Sales team.

Vintage is a commercially and critically successful publisher with a catalogue of over 6,000 titles, which has also seen three years of consecutive growth. We publish some of the world's most thought-provoking, unforgettable, beautifully designed books - from contemporary trailblazers to our red-spine Vintage Classics. This means that our broad family of authors ranges from world-class prize-winners to emerging talent, including the winner of the 2024 Booker Prize, Samantha Harvey, and the winner of the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize, Richard Flanagan. As well as Margaret Atwood, Tim Spector, Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison, Ocean Vuong, Jo Nesbo, Nigella Lawson, Sean Hewitt, Gabrielle Zevin, and Ian McEwan.

Vintage is an exciting place to work. We pride ourselves on our dynamic culture, and the whole division celebrates our successes. Sales colleagues are encouraged to interact with the editorial, marketing, and publicity teams to deliver the very best results for our books and authors. This is a key role in our successful sales department where you will have account management responsibility for Waterstones (Fiction), WHS Travel, and Tesco.

Everyone's voice is important, and we are looking for someone who can bring a fresh and exciting new perspective to our team.

Key responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively and creatively with buyers and booksellers to build a successful relationship with these key retail partners.
• Proactively feeding your expert market knowledge back into the division and working with key stakeholders to influence and drive strategy across the business.
• Read widely across the Vintage catalogue to find opportunities to bring books back to market and work collegiately with our publishing colleagues, as well as the wider sales team.
• Engaging with our Sales Operations, Inventory, and Production teams, managing budgets, and analysing the market for trends and sales opportunities.

What you'll bring

Essential criteria:

• A strong communicator and someone who has a proven record of building excellent working relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• A passion for publishing and demonstrable interest in working specifically for Vintage.
• Strong presentation skills. The ability to influence.
• Commercial acumen and sales analysis skills .
• An attention to detail.

Application instructions

Please apply with your CV and cover by 11:59pm on Monday 10th March. Within your cover letter, please tell us why you would like to join the Sales team at Vintage.

Please ensure you include a cover letter, as it is a crucial part of our assessment process. The cover letter offers an opportunity to show how your experience and interests align with the role requirements. Typically, we expect the cover letter to be no more than one or two pages in length.

Salary

Up to £39,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

What you can expect from us

Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

• Financial - income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance
• Wellbeing - healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks
• Lifestyle - enhanced parental leave, tech scheme, free and discounted books

For our full benefits list please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/what-we-offer/

Hybrid working

While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role we expect that you will come to our office in London 2-3 days a week.

About Penguin

We're the UK's largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you'll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

The recruitment process

You can read about our recruitment process at https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/how-we-hire/

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. The essential criteria for this role are listed as part of the 'What you'll bring' section. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: London

City: London

Postal Code: SW11 7BW

Job ID: 277720

Date: 18 Feb 2025

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