Online Sales Executive (FTC until November 2027)

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Online Sales team as an Online Sales Executive. This is a fixed-term opportunity until November 2027.

The role

Maximising sales online in all formats is a key strategic priority for our business. To deliver that it is essential that our books and authors have the strongest presence on retail platforms. As Online Sales Executive in the central online team, you will be responsible for helping to grow online sales across print books, ebooks and audiobooks in all markets.

You will provide administrative and sales support to the busy Online Sales team. Your primary goal will be to help drive sales growth by providing administrative and analytical support, implementing online best practices, and analysing global sales trends.

We are looking for someone who is commercially driven with a genuine interest in sales and is comfortable analysing sales and marketing data.

As an Online Sales Executive you will have excellent communication skills, be an effective and persuasive communicator and have great interpersonal skills.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide regular market and sales trend analysis across all markets, publishing houses and formats.
• Work closely with online sales team to ensure smooth account management and help implement online best practice.
• Support the online sales team in ensuring our products are optimised across global retailer platforms
• Support the online team by helping to provide key retailers with sales, market and consumer insight analysis on key titles.
• Support on digital pricing tests and implementation
• Account management for some digital retail accounts across UK and International territories.
• Provide active new title sell-in, marketing, highlights, and ad-hoc title updates across the entire PRH list to aid title curation and optimal positioning on site for the retailers you manage.

What you’ll bring

• Strong administrative skills, including excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong organisation and time management skills with experience of multitasking and handling competing priorities.
• Demonstrable analytical ability and numeracy skills, with experience in providing regular reporting and analysis.
• Proactive, curious, and a strong team player with interpersonal sensitivity.
• Demonstrate the ability to work autonomously using initiative.

£31,000 - £33,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

AI

Here at Penguin, we believe in the power of authenticity and human creativity. When you apply for a position, we want to encourage you to showcase your unique voice. Throughout our recruitment process, please share your own thoughts, experiences, and skills. This helps us get a true sense of who you are and what you might bring to our team.

We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives, so please be yourself! While we recognise AI tools can be helpful, we recommend using them thoughtfully to ensure your responses reflect you.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. The essential criteria for this role are listed as part of the ‘What you’ll bring’ section. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable with, for us to support your request.

While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role we expect that you will work from our office in London a minimum of two days per week.

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