Key Account Manager, Vintage

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Key Account Manager to join the Vintage Sales team.

With a catalogue of over 6,000 titles, Vintage publishes some of the world’s most thought-provoking, unforgettable, beautifully designed books – from contemporary trailblazers to our red-spine Vintage Classics. This means that our broad family of authors ranges from world-class prize-winners to emerging talent, including Nigella Lawson, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, Jo Nesbo, Rukmini Iyer, Gabrielle Zevin and Ian McEwan.

This is a key role in a busy sales department where you will have account management responsibility for Waterstones and WHS Travel. You will work collaboratively, and creatively, with Buyers and Booksellers to build a successful relationship with these key retail partners. You will bring market feedback into the Division, generating actions as a result of this insight, and work collegiately with our divisional colleagues as well as the wider sales team.

Your role will also involve working with our Sales Operations, Inventory, and Production teams, managing budgets, and analysing the market for trends and sales opportunities. You will report into the Sales Manager in this role.

We are looking for someone who has a customer-centric mindset, is a strong communicator and someone who has a proven track record of building excellent working relationships with a variety of stakeholders internally and externally.

The ideal candidate would have a proactive mindset, an eye for detail and an analytical mindset. Strong presentation skills, commercial acumen and sales analysis skills are also vital.

Vintage is an exciting place to work. We pride ourselves on our dynamic culture, and the whole division celebrates our successes. Sales colleagues are encouraged to interact with the editorial, marketing and publicity teams to deliver the very best results for our books and authors.

Everyone’s voice is important, and we are looking for someone who can bring a fresh and exciting new perspective to our team.

About Penguin:

We’re the UK’s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you’ll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

How to apply: Please apply with your CV & Cover Letter, address to Malissa, by 23:59 on Sunday the 5th of May. 

Salary: circa £40,000 depending on how you skills and experience align to the role 

Competitive benefits package: Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

• Financial – income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance
• Wellbeing - healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks
• Lifestyle – enhanced parental leave, tech scheme

For our full benefits list please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/what-we-offer/

Hybrid working: We’re experimenting with a hybrid way of working that suits the needs of each team. While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role we expect that you will come to our office in London 2-3 days a week.

The recruitment process: You can read about our recruitment process at https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/how-we-hire/

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we're part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can't take all eligible candidates to interview.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: The Random House Group Limited 

Country: United Kingdom 

State/Region: London 

City: london 

Postal Code: SW11 7BW 

Job ID: 269675