International Sales Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and organised sales person to join the award-winning Bloomsbury International Sales team (selling across our Adult and Children's, Special Interest and Head of Zeus divisions) as International Sales Manager, reporting to the Head of International Sales., As International Sales Manager, you will be responsible for sales of Bloomsbury titles to Scandinavia and Southern Europe as well as to UK Exporters, managing direct sales relationships with a wide range of customers and providing them with exceptional customer service. You will provide feedback on your territories to colleagues across the company and represent the department at meetings with particular divisional responsibility for the Children's Education list.,

• Pitching and presenting new books to customers and providing them with up-to-date information on new titles, this will include attending book fairs and visiting customers in territory.
• Setting and reviewing sales targets and working directly with all customers to grow sales and achieve targets.
• Agreeing promotions with customers, submissions for catalogues and any other marketing plans.
• Dealing with orders, queries from customers and working closely with our distributor to ensure orders are delivered in a timely fashion.
• Identifying and developing new relationships with potential customers, ensuring customer needs are understood and selecting appropriate product solutions.
• Identifying ways in which Bloomsbury can increase market share in the designated territory, through further product development, distributor relations, sales events, and promotional campaigns.
• Conducting competitive analysis and gathering market data to channel back to the International Sales team.
• Acting as the departmental liaison with the Education team - attending divisional meetings and feeding back to the International Sales team on new products and opportunities in this division.
  
  We are looking for a proactive candidate with strong commercial initiative and a love of books who will thrive in a fast-paced environment. Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2-3 years' sales experience including managing accounts and be open to travel within the territory and to book fairs as required. We will consider exceptional candidates with less experience of direct account management.
In return, we can offer invaluable global sales experience, a wide understanding of the publishing process, and the opportunity to work with a variety of stakeholders in the industry.,
• Experience of key account management
• Sales, presentation and negotiation skills
• A love of books
• Passion for pitching and presenting
• Organisation and efficiency
• Confident communication skills
• Ability to work as a team member as well as independently
• Exceptional time-management
• Good attention to detail
• Knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and Word
  
  Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney.
  
  As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:
Working Pattern
• Hybrid working as above
Holidays
• 25 days holiday
• +3.5 days Christmas company holiday
Other Benefits
• Two paid Personal Wellness Days (from 2025)
• Flexible Fridays - take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Work Anywhere Fortnight - For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
Company culture - Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and 14 Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources