Overview

Sales Executive, HQ and Avon HarperCollins Publishers

Employment Type Full time

Location Hybrid · London, UK 3+ days office based

Salary £28,500 (GBP)

Seniority Junior

+ Closing:11:56pm, 11th Sep 2025 BST

Perks and benefits

Work from home option

Wellness programs

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Mentoring/coaching

Cycle to work scheme

Candidate happiness

8.65 (30933)

Responsibilities

• Administrative support to the HQ & Avon Sales team
• Compile sales reports and circulate relevant sales information across the team
• Customer communication for Mills and Boon series titles
• Distribute advance samples / proofs to retailers / team
• Create internal and external PowerPoint presentations
• Answer internal and customer queries quickly and effectively
• Ad-hoc administrative tasks e.g. formatting presentations, creating graphs and charts through Excel
• Liaise with the Field Sales team, Divisional Sales teams, Marketing, PR, Distribution and Editorial, Commercial Finance
• Process customer orders in a clear and timely manner, liaising with Glasgow distribution, credit control and customer services to ensure the effective distribution of orders so that invoices may be raised and books despatched in the business’ best interests
• Raise any required marketing PO’s
• Collating data from customer reports across the business
• Keeping abreast of the commercial book market and being an ambassador for HQ and Avon titles

Experience required

• Experience of maintaining and developing working relationships
• Knowledge Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience of producing sales presentations
• Experience of working in a busy environment and managing priorities

Skills required

• Ability to communicate at all levels, both written and verbally
• Professional, reliable, able to work quickly under pressure and use own initiative
• Effective team player
• Organised, efficient, proactive and able to hit deadlines
• Willing to take on new challenges
• Keen interest and passion for books particularly across commercial fiction and non fiction.

Benefits

• Work from home option
• Wellness programs
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Mentoring/coaching
• Cycle to work scheme