Commissioning Editor/Senior Commissioning Editor (Non-Fiction)

£30,000 – £38,000 per annum, depending on experience

London

Who we are and what we do

Wildfire is a boutique imprint, part of the Headline Division of Hachette UK, and home to numerous best-selling authors across our fiction and non-fiction lists. From best-selling phenomena like Fleishman is in Trouble and Blood Orange, to prize-winning and high-profile non-fiction authors such as Kim Ghattas, Dr Richard Taylor and Professor Heino Falcke – Wildfire has a broad and eclectic range of titles, books which get people talking, books with a bit of soul.

What you’ll be doing

Commissioning and publishing unmissable non-fiction, particularly focusing on the growing serious non-fiction sector of the UK market. You’ll be looking at market trends, spotting potential ideas for books, developing and maintaining external connects, thinking creatively about how to approach your own curated non-fiction list, and working with the publishing team on the strategic development of the Wildfire imprint. Reporting to the Publishing Director, you will be working within a small and supportive team and be obsessed with excellent metadata and SEO for your books.

Who we are looking for

You’re proactive and tenacious, a non-fiction enthusiast who generates, develops and delivers on ideas for titles across all formats and who approaches potential authors with a vision for how they could be published by Wildfire. You could be relatively new to commissioning or have a number of bestsellers under your belt – the salary and job title will reflect that – and understand the important role you have in terms of negotiation. You will have an appetite for a range of serious non-fiction, from popular science to social issues, from quirky humour to big ideas. You will think about global, as well as local, sales opportunities, and niche areas alongside the more mass market.

What we offer

You will be joining a friendly, committed team of skilled editorial and publishing colleagues, working together to produce books we can all be proud of. As part of Hachette UK, you will also have the opportunity to benefit from company-wide schemes such as mentoring.

Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this. In addition to 25 days annual leave days per year plus bank holidays, we have an extensive list of benefits that include: a wide-ranging training library, development programmes including mentoring, Cycle to Work vouchers, Private Medical Insurance, eye care vouchers, up to 70% off book purchases, a charity book shelf, two volunteer days per year to use at your charity of choice, many employee networks to join, delicious subsidized canteen food, summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months!), season ticket loans, rent deposit loans, generous pension schemes and much more!

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.

Closing date: 17 May 2021.