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Online and Digital Sales Assistant/Coordinator
full-time•New York•$50k - $55k
About this role
Hachette Book Group seeks an Online and Digital Sales Assistant/Coordinator to join our dynamic, results-driven sales team. This role plays a key part in supporting HBG’s online and digital business by maintaining accurate sales reporting, coordinating account-level needs, facilitating communication across teams and accounts, and assisting with marketing and editorial workflows across major online and digital partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and distribute sales reports on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.
- Provide sales representatives with data and title information and research in advance for account preparation.
- Manage vendor-specific marketing requests and ensure accurate, prompt delivery of materials.
- Draft and send monthly communications to various online retailer teams with key title information, marketing materials, publicity information and galley availability.
- Communicate key title accolades and editorial picks internally
- Assist online sales team with various tasks related to vendor-specific metadata requests.
- Assist with departmental mailings to key accounts
- Support editorial presentations for various online retailers
- Attend key retailer meetings and record detailed notes, action items, and follow ups.
- Collaborate with sales, editorial, and marketing teams to ensure smooth execution of digital sales initiatives.
- Processing invoices and supporting ebook and audio book pricing updates
Qualifications
- Experience in publishing, digital sales, or related fields preferred.
- Advanced Excel skills (V-look ups; pivot tables; etc.), and high degree of comfort with PowerPoint and Outlook preferred
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including working with large amounts of data
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) with the aptitude to communicate effectively in both individual and group settings regardless of audience
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines with accuracy and attention to detail.
- Proven ability to deliver timely, accurate work product and demonstrate good follow up and follow through
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multi-task, prioritize and manage time effectively while also ensuring accuracy of work through attention to detail
- Familiarity with online retail platforms and publishing workflows is a plus.
As a leading book publisher, we believe that including and representing diverse voices in all aspects of our business is fundamental to what we do. Our publishing programs must reflect the broad range of backgrounds, experiences, political views and ideas that shape our society and publish books for all readers.
Hachette Book Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
The compensation range for this position is $50,000 - $55,000. Salary can vary based on a number of factors including skills, experience, and location — talk with your recruiter to learn more. There may be times that you will be required (or requested) to work overtime due to the nature of your role or exceptional workload issues or special projects.
The following benefits are offered by the company: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life, short-term and long-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, critical illness, hospital indemnity, long-term care, health and dependent care FSA, commuter benefit plan, employee assistance program, tuition reimbursement, travel assistance, 401(k), discretionary bonus program, PTO (15 vacation days, 3 personal days, 10 holidays and generous sick leave) and group discounts on auto and home insurance and legal services. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification, hours worked and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.
What you'll do
- The Online and Digital Sales Assistant/Coordinator will prepare and distribute sales reports, manage marketing requests, and assist with communication across teams. This role also involves supporting the online sales team and attending retailer meetings to document key information.
About Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading U.S. trade publisher dedicated to making it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment, and opportunity. As part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher, HBG is home to dozens of esteemed imprints including Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown and Company for Young Readers, Grand Central Publishing, Orbit, Basic Books Group, and Workman Publishing. We publish across all formats and genres including fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks and books for young readers—as well as audiobooks, puzzles, games, stationary, calendars, and other book-related products that inspire and engage readers of all ages.
We provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to other publishers. HBG is headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Boston, MA; Lebanon, IN; Nashville, TN; Boulder, CO; North Adams, MA; Berkeley, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, OR; and Chapel Hill NC. Hachette Book Group Canada, our marketing and publicity company, is based in Toronto.
HBG’s mission is guided by four strategic pillars: Understanding Consumers, Changing the Story, Owner Mentality, and Growth Mindset. These values shape how we publish, how we operate, and how we support our authors, employees, and readers. We’re committed to publishing content that resonates and fostering a culture of equity, inclusion, and belonging; for our staff, authors, and partners alike. Our DEI efforts include employee resource groups, inclusive hiring practices, and publishing programs that amplify historically underrepresented voices.
We’re proud to offer a dynamic and collaborative workplace where creativity is values, innovation is encouraged, and every team member plays a role in shaping the future of publishing.
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