Sales Associate

Macmillan is seeking an Associate to join the Special Markets Sales team. Reporting to the Custom Sales Manager, the Associate will be responsible for supporting custom sales projects for the entire team, tracking and managing subscription box orders and requests, and ensuring deadlines are met. Our ideal candidate has 1-3 years of trade publishing experience and is highly organized and detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task across multiple projects. Custom publishing experience is a plus. 

What You'll Do: 

• Support Special Markets managers in end-to-end workflow of custom sales projects
• Regular communication with accounts, publishers, order entry team, and customer service for subscription box orders 
• Organized tracking of subscription box licensing projects
• Creating title collections and sending newsletter blasts to accounts
• New account research and outreach

What You'll Bring:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office & Google Suite
• Strong project management skills
• Extremely organized and detailed
• Skilled in verbal and written communication
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once and prioritize across tasks
• Ability to work with a variety of team members and departments across Macmillan
• Minimum 1-3 years of trade publishing experience
• Custom Publishing experience is a plus
• Bachelor’s Degree

The salary range for the role is $58,000-$60,000.

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. 

Macmillan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer consistently striving to foster a culture where everyone belongs. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities. Qualified applicants are evaluated without regard to race, color, religion, age, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, physical ability, neurodiversity, genetic information, protected veteran status, family and economic status and background or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.