Sales and Marketing Assistant
The Mare Nostrum Group is an ambitious and growing, full-service publishing company providing distribution, sales, marketing, consultancy and recruitment services to commercial and university academic publishers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Based in the UK with an in-house team of 30 employees, we provide a fully collaborative service for both print and digital content, which complements and extends the work of our client publishers.
We are recruiting for a Publishing Sales and Marketing Assistant here at Mare Nostrum. In this role you would be selling and marketing print and e-product to our client publishers in Europe.
Responsibilities:
- Building relationships with academics and winning textbook adoptions in the territory through in house conversations and field visits
- Developing and managing relationships with key territory contacts such as libraries and professional associations
- Execute special sales projects to deliver bulk sales of trade and practitioner books
- Working with wider marketing and sales teams to ensure campus, trade and special sales is co-ordinated
- Marketing and selling digital content to institutions directly and via third party vendors
- Attend conferences
- Formulate sales strategies to maximise revenue and win new business
- Forecast sales and contribute to group business planning activities
Requirements:
- Business proficiency French
- Some experience of selling, and ideally some familiarity with publishing/media sales or with the academic marketplace
- Ability to communicate effectively, both in written and verbal form
- Positive, proactive and professional approach
Benefits:
- Annual company bonus
- Private healthcare
- Pension plan via NEST
- 25 – 28 days holiday
- One day off to celebrate your birthday
- Team building days and events
- Hybrid working
We welcome applications from all members of society and embrace a diverse workforce.