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Editorial Director

Team: HarperFiction Literary Estates

Role closes - 12:00pm, 11th Feb 2020 GMT (Europe/London)

London

An exciting and incredibly rare opportunity has arisen to join the HarperFiction Literary Estates team. The Estates team are a boutique department within the broader HarperFiction division dedicated to supporting, curating and continually driving both innovation and growth around some of the most significant literary estates in the world.  At the heart of the list sit Agatha Christie and JRR Tolkien.

The Editorial Director will play an important role with both authors, working with the Publisher and Deputy Publishing Director, but the role also comes with a brief to think creatively and ambitiously about what the future of the list could look like, and to acquire accordingly. The Publisher works three days a week, so the Editorial Director will be a key lynch-pin for the department; proactive and effective liaison with sales, marketing, publicity and design teams is also crucial.

We are looking for an Editorial Director with entrepreneurial publishing talent who can demonstrate knowledge of the UK and international markets, together with an understanding of how best to bring books to market in a creative, commercially successful and market-leading way.

The role creates a rare opportunity to combine working on some of the greatest and most loved authors in the UK’s literary heritage, with an exciting brief to work creatively and strategically to grow a hugely important part of the HarperCollins business.

Role posted - 11:45am, 27th Jan 2020 GMT

Editorial Director

HarperCollins, London
Full-time, Permanent
Publisher
Commissioning Editor, Editor, Publishing Support, Other Publishing, Editorial

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