Sales Manager

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🕒 2 days ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £40k - £45k / year

⏱ Part Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🤑 Sales

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Wonderful Recruitment & Development

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2 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

📚 Education

Recruitment • Education

Wonderful Recruitment & Development is a London-based recruitment, development and learning organisation that works internationally across sectors including Publishing, Toys & Games, Licensing, and Events. It provides bespoke recruitment and talent development services across a broad range of functions from entry-level to C-suite, and emphasises quality over quantity, long-term partnerships, and measurable improvements in service for clients, candidates, and participants. The company also offers learning & development programmes and positions itself as a collaborative partner to hiring managers, candidates, and employees.

📋 Description

• Develop business across major UK trade accounts, independent bookshops, specialist outlets, and less traditional retailers • Re-engage previous customers and identify new opportunities for frontlist and backlist titles • Grow direct-to-reader and direct-to-customer sales • Work with the wider team to test new approaches and build sustainable revenue • Grow print and digital sales across specialist publishing • Develop relationships with institutions, professional bodies, academics, practitioners, and other relevant customers • Identify opportunities across overseas markets, particularly the US • Develop existing distributor and partner relationships and find new international routes to market • Work directly with authors and colleagues on events, talks, promotional activity, and other sales-driving opportunities • Take ownership of agreed priorities and keep colleagues informed of progress, opportunities, and challenges • Report to the Managing Director

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in book sales • Good understanding of the UK book trade • Ability to identify and develop commercial opportunities • Confidence building existing customer relationships and approaching new accounts, customers, and potential partners • Proactive and self-motivated approach • Ability to work independently, take responsibility, and contribute practical ideas • Clear and effective communication skills • Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, authors, customers, and distribution partners • Strong organisational, financial, and digital skills • Ability to track contacts, sales, invoicing, and follow-up activity • Desirable: experience across trade, direct-to-consumer, academic, professional, and/or international channels • Desirable: knowledge of specialist or non-fiction publishing markets • Desirable: experience developing international distributor relationships or overseas sales • Desirable: experience working directly with authors to support events, talks, promotional opportunities, and sales-driving activity

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working pattern of 3 days per week • Remote working within the UK • Genuine scope to shape the role and sales activity • Autonomy and variety in an independent publishing environment