Sales & Marketing Operations Assistant, SMP

St. Martin’s Publishing Group is looking for a Sales & Marketing Operations Assistant to manage key weekly and seasonal publishing operations including launches, sales conference presentations, and regular interdepartmental meetings. 

This role provides an opportunity to learn about publishing from a bird’s eye view and work with departments across the organization. The Ops Assistant will work closely with members of SMPG’s Sales & Marketing Operations team and communicate frequently with members of the Marketing, Publicity, Editorial, Sales, and Creative Studio teams, in addition to our publishers, to ensure that milestones in the book publishing process are met each season.

What you'll do:

• Coordinate Sales & Marketing Meetings for SMPG, Wednesday Books, and eBooks: build agendas, procure and communicate materials
• Coordinate Weekly Marketing Status Meeting
• Manage seasonal Launch meetings and quarterly eBook Launch Meetings: scheduling, organizing, vetting materials, recording presentations 
• Support the Managing Editor in maintaining the editorial pipeline
• Manage monthly eBook downprice submissions
• Prepare Sales Conference presentations for all of SMPG’s imprints, coordinate between departments to ensure materials are prepared and distributed and all deadlines are met
• Regularly distribute reports to keep colleagues apprised of important developments (weekly pub schedule, account promotions, availability of manuscripts and sales assets, etc)
• Assist Ops team members with projects ad hoc

What you'll bring:

• Meticulous eye for detail
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Strong work ethic and critical thinking skills
• Exceptional organizational skills and interpersonal skills
• Curious about how things work and why, comfortable asking questions, an eye for inefficiencies
• Proficient in Google Suite and Microsoft Office Suite (especially Google Sheets and Excel)
• Confident communicating clearly and professionally with a variety of people at all levels in all departments within the organization
• A passion for books with an interest in business/operations
• Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team

Ideal Experience: 

• Entry-level to 1 year of office administrative experience
• An internship in book publishing or publishing adjacent industry a plus
• College degree or equivalent experience

This role will have an annual salary of $50k.

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.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

Macmillan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, consistently striving to foster a culture where everyone belongs. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities. Qualified applicants are evaluated without regard to race, color, religion, age, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, physical ability, neurodiversity, genetic information, protected veteran status, family and economic status, and background or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.