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Sales, Operations and Publicity Assistant – Children’s Books

Little Tiger is seeking a highly organised and creative individual to join their busy sales and marketing team as a Sales, Operations and Publicity Assistant. Reporting to the Head of UK Sales and Marketing, this is an ideal entry level role for a candidate looking to embark on a career in publishing sales or operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with account managers within the team on meeting prep and customer admin support.
  • Provide sales analysis and reports for company-wide use when needed.
  • Maintain UK publication schedules and manage use of Biblio, BooksOnix and Nielsen.
  • Communicate relevant changes to the current publishing schedule internally and to third parties.
  • Oversee reprint orders and liaise with Production team to maintain schedules.
  • Maintain Little Tiger website and process customer orders.
  • Organise mailings for review copies.
  • Maintain customer and influencer mailing lists.
  • Create engaging copy for monthly newsletters.
  • Directly liaise with our UK warehouse and other external partners to provide relevant stock information and fulfil customer orders.
  • Maintain data integrity of titles at the warehouse i.e. market restrictions, pricing, VAT implications and editions.
  • Troubleshoot any issues between LTP departments and our distributor by developing and maintaining a good relationship between relevant teams.
  • Maintain the stock levels of the showroom library so that it can be used to its full potential as a sales material resource.

Key Skills and Attributes:

  • A passion for children’s books and a desire to develop a sales or operations career.
  • Proven organisational skills, and the ability to multi-task.
  • Good analysis and customer service skills, plus the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
  • Highly organised, meticulous and motivated.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Advanced use of Excel and Powerpoint.

Desirable skills:

  • Confidence using content management systems (e.g. Mailchimp, WordPress).
  • Video editing.
  • Experience of social media use within a work setting.

About Little Tiger:

Little Tiger is a creatively led children’s publisher producing engaging and inspiring books for children and young people which are sold all over the world.

This is a full-time role based in our office in Fulham. We operate hybrid working with a minimum of three days a week in the office and up to two days a week working from home. 

Salary: £23,000

Please send your CV and a covering letter outlining your interest in Little Tiger and your suitability for the role to Georgina Hanratty ghanratty@littletiger.co.uk by Monday 27th March 2023.

Only candidates called for interview will be notified.

Our commitment: 

Little Tiger is committed to employing individuals from varied and diverse backgrounds in order to build a team which reflects the different communities of our readers. We employ people based on their abilities, regardless of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality or socio-economic background.

Sales, Operations and Publicity Assistant – Children’s Books

Little Tiger, Greater London
Full-time, Permanent
Publisher
Administration, Assistant, Publicity, Publishing, Operations, Communications, Sales, Business Development
Reference: 
Sales, Operations and Publicity Assistant – Children’s Books
Salary description: 
£23,000

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roven organisational skills, and the ability to multi-task. • Good analysis and customer service skills, plus the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.