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Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world, publishing a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats. Macmillan Publishers is committed to our authors, our employees, and to the environment.
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St. Martin's Publishing Group seeks a Publishing Co-ordinator to support the SVP, Publishing Director and another VP, Associate Publisher with titles across many of the St. Martin's Publishing Group lists. This is a terrific opportunity to gain exposure to all areas of the publishing process, while working in a fast-paced environment.
The St. Martin’s Publishing Group is a leading publisher of books designed to entertain, inform, and delight. Our imprints include St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books, Wednesday Books, St. Martin’s Griffin, St. Martin’s Essentials, and Castle Point Books. St. Martin’s Press has a long, storied history of publishing books across a wide range of tastes and interests. From blockbuster authors to inspired debuts, from political heavyweights to literary talents to social media superstars, we publish commercial and upmarket fiction and nonfiction.
The ideal Publishing Co-ordinator candidate is a detail-oriented, self-starter who can manage a diverse set of responsibilities efficiently and effectively, and is comfortable asking for help when needed. We are looking for a strong organizer who can prioritize assignments while managing multiple requests and queries, which must be responded to in a courteous, efficient, and timely manner. The day-to-day responsibilities include a combination of project support for the publishing team focused on the calendaring, packaging, sales, and growth of new titles on the St. Martin's Press, Griffin, Essentials and Paperbacks imprints. Additional activities include maximizing opportunities for backlist titles, including anniversary editions, movie tie-ins, metadata, and other promotion. The job will include liaising with internal departments such as editorial, design, production, marketing, publicity, and sales, as well as externally with authors and agents. We are looking for someone who is interested in the work that is done to bring a book to market from a business and operational standpoint. Candidates should possess strong interpersonal skills, a keen eye for detail, and an interest in market research and trends.
This is a hybrid position with in-office responsibilities approximately two days a week in our Manhattan office.
What you'll do :
- Support publishing team in all facets of the publishing process, for ~150 frontlist titles a year
- Communicate to internal publishing departments, as well as externally with authors, agents and estates
- Coordinate logistics for meetings, including calendar schedules, preparing meeting materials and taking notes
- Research trends and competition, including sales research on comparative titles (timing, pricing)
- Identify worthwhile opportunities for renewed promotion of backlist titles, including movie / TV tie-in coordination, and potential reissues
- Run reports from various systems to pull & analyze sales, category & trend data
- Track inventory needs for priority titles
- Help handle special projects to support the overall efforts of the imprint
What you'll bring :
This role will have an annual salary of $54,000-$58,000.
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.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.
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Salary : $54,000 - $58,000
