Jobs at Bertelsmann

Leads complex, cross-functional strategic projects spanning marketing, sales, technology, supply chain, and operations. Defines scope, requirements, deliverables, and business cases; creates project plans and work breakdowns; coordinates stakeholders, developers, and testers; manages rollouts and handoffs; provides executive status communications; and leads retrospectives. Requires strong business analysis, process improvement, relationship-building, and change management skills.

Develop and execute publicity campaigns for 5–7 titles per season, conduct media outreach, create press materials, manage budgets, coordinate author tours and events, and collaborate with authors, agents, internal teams, and external partners. The role also supports senior staff, maintains media databases and lists, and requires travel to festivals, conventions, and local events.

Supports and maintains Penguin Random House’s SAP publishing operations system. Responsibilities include troubleshooting user and data issues, analyzing large datasets, maintaining SAP data, documenting requirements and processes, creating functional specifications, supporting testing, training users, and collaborating with developers and business teams on system solutions and projects.

Supports the Global CIO Office and Technology leadership by translating strategic vision into priorities, initiatives, workplans, milestones, and progress measures. Coordinates global technology programs, prepares executive communications and presentations, manages agendas and recommendations, documents decisions, and ensures follow-through. The role also supports organizational change management in partnership with HR and requires strong strategic thinking, project management, communication, organization, and stakeholder collaboration skills across geographies.

Lead day-to-day governance and coordination for a global SAP S/4HANA transformation. Maintain integrated milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions; prepare executive communications and recommendations; coordinate regional, business, technology, finance, and change-management workstreams; and manage alignment with consulting and systems integration partners.

Provides legal support for procurement and commercial contracting, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating vendor, supplier, technology, SaaS, and professional services agreements. Advises procurement and business stakeholders on contract risk, commercial terms, policies, and approvals. Maintains contract templates and playbooks, conducts legal research, monitors regulatory developments, and supports selected corporate, employment, compliance, and policy matters.

Lead 8–10 marketing campaigns per year for bestselling and high-profile fiction and nonfiction titles. Develop creative, data-informed strategies; execute digital and social marketing; collaborate with authors, agents, editorial, publicity, sales, and leadership; and manage and mentor 2–3 marketers. Use audience insights, market trends, and sales data to optimize campaign performance while managing competing priorities.

Design, develop, and maintain SAP BTP applications, automations, and integrations. Implement UI5/Fiori apps, SAP Build projects, CAP/Node.js services, and API/OData integrations. Configure BTP services, security (XSUAA, IAS/IPS), Cloud Foundry runtimes, CI/CD pipelines, and ensure code quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Support monthly close with variance analysis and journal entries; produce regular sales and financial reporting; assist budgeting and rolling forecasts; collaborate with UK and US finance teams and stakeholders to deliver commercial analysis and improve processes.