Senior Sales Support Associate (NYC Hybrid)

Harpercollins 360 Senior Sales Support Associate

HarperCollins 360, publisher of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dream Harbor series and Tina : The Dog Who Changed the World, is seeking a Senior Sales Support Associate, HC360 Children's to join the New York-based team of HarperCollins' global publishing program, publishing a select group of titles from HarperCollins affiliates in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India into the US marketplace. This is a unique opportunity to broaden your children's publishing background and have a critical impact on this international business.

Responsibilities

The Senior Sales Support Associate will report to the Senior Manager, Sales Ops and 360 Children's Publishing. This role is responsible for the flow of metadata and title information from the international HC affiliate businesses into the HCUS systems, liaising with affiliate offices to ensure timely ordering and maintenance of inventory for frontlist and backlist titles and assisting the US sales and marketing functions with materials needed to support the goals of HarperCollins 360. We are a small and innovative team; if you love books, are a problem solver and a stickler for schedules, have a positive, can-do attitude, and enjoy working in a small, collaborative environment within a larger organization, we look forward to meeting you. Experience with Children's Book Publishing a plus.

In this role, you will :

• Collaborate with our international affiliates' inventory, sales, and marketing departments to create and track workable schedules that support Sales deadlines and ensure timely delivery of titles to market.
• Coordinate materials required for sales and marketing, including ensuring books are cataloged and galleys and egalleys are available as applicable, create fact sheets and PowerPoints for launch and positioning meetings.
• Analyze rate of sales and inventory levels to estimate replenishment needs and resolve inventory-related issues as they arise.
• Monitor and maintain warning levels in inventory planning system, factoring in lead times and minimum reprint quantities.
• Prepare and track bindery shipments to select customers.
• Initiate warehouse work orders for various displays, promotions, and stock maintenance.
• Attend all relevant meetings including pub schedule review, launch and positioning, monthly imprint reviews, quarterly children's brainstorm and special markets updates
• Provide support with the children's marketing plans and budgets

Qualifications

HarperCollins Publishers is a company full of people who are passionate about books. When you apply for a position, we want to know why you want to work here, and why you are interested in the job. That's why cover letters are strongly preferred.

The salary range for this position is $57,000-$65,000. We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

HarperCollins Publishers is an equal opportunity employer.

HarperCollins Publishers is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and / or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at TalentManagement@harpercollins.com. Note : we will only respond to accommodation requests.