Sales Assistant – Full time, Mare Nostrum Group
Following recent significant growth, we are continuing the expansion of a dedicated team set up to manage the sales and marketing of a key academic and professional textbook publishing client. We are looking to recruit a Sales Assistant to promote and sell professional textbook products reporting to, and supporting the Sales Manager, this would be an ideal first or second role for someone looking to build on their sales experience in publishing, or broaden their responsibilities from a previous role.
Duties of the role include:
- Building relationships with key clients and organisations / associations / training centres, processing orders from these clients on a daily basis, and responding to client queries in a professional and timely manner
- Working closely with the Sales Manager and wider internal sales team to deliver sales strategies for key products, striving to maximise revenue and win new business
- Conducting market research at the direction of the Sales Manager, establishing new markets for key products
- Attending selected trade / professional conferences within the UK to represent our client publishers’ product portfolio
- Build relationships with key partners and associations to promote and sell textbooks
- Collaborating with the marketing team to ensure a range of sales support materials are produced.
- Developing and maintaining a comprehensive knowledge of our client publishers’ product portfolio.
Skills required:
- Ability to communicate effectively, both in written and verbal form
- Positive, proactive and professional approach
- Team player
- MS Office proficiency
- A genuine passion for books and publishing
We welcome applications from all members of society and embrace a diverse workforce.
To enable an equitable experience for all and give you the best chance of success, if you have any specific requirements for any stage of the interview process, please let us know by emailing: recruitment@mare-nostrum.co.uk.
Mare Nostrum Group is a full-service publishing company with an in-house team of over 50 employees, providing distribution, sales, marketing, data management, recruitment, and consultancy services to academic and professional publishers in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. With over 25 years’ experience and a reputation for providing a comprehensive, tailored service, Mare Nostrum Group is widely considered to be the premier academic sales and marketing agency outside of North America.