Sales & Marketing Operations Assistant, SMP

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 :

Ideal 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.

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.