Sales Associate - Macmillan : Job Details

The Sales Associate will provide administrative support to the eBook trade sales team, with some contact with eBook accounts. What you'll do:

• Monitor and troubleshoot scheduled eBook price promotions
• Create meeting agendas
• Create monthly email memos and pub alert emails
• Work as primary eBook contact for Scribd, support Senior Manager with digital library accounts
• Participate in regular sales and marketing meetings, account calls, and quarterly title presentations
• Support team in ad hoc administrative tasks
• Develop a strong relationship with Macmillan's wholly owned and distribution publishing teams, as well as the teams for Amazon, Library Marketing, Data Analytics, digital audio, and Central Marketing

What you'll bring:

• Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) and customer service skills
• Strong organization skills and attention to detail
• Proven ability to work independently on deadlines and manage time efficiently
• Ability to perform basic analytic tasks in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, vlookups, and calculating percent change
• Proficiency in Gmail, Google Sheets, and Google Slides
• Interest in sales and the publishing industry

Ideal Experience:

• 1-3 years of experience in publishing and/or sales

This role will have an annual salary of $54,000-$56,000. Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats. U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.