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An exciting opportunity has arisen within our Publishing Operations team for a Production Assistant who loves books.
Your role
As the Production Assistant, you will be involved in the creation and delivery of trade titles and will be working across global markets to provide effective support to the team.
You will gain experience within Adult and Children’s book production and you will work very closely with a wide range of teams at Pan Macmillan, including editorial, design, rights and sales.
Your key responsibilities
- Assist with all aspects of book printing and production
- Expand and develop our POD programme in partnership with other team members
- Order and monitor reprints from confirmation to final delivery
- Ensure orders, materials and communications are timely, clear and accurate
- Produce accurate costings to facilitate business decisions
- Negotiate schedules, specifications and prices in conjunction with senior members of the team
- Agree, monitor and report schedules and approvals in-house
- Check and code invoices carefully and accurately
- Supply data and information to other internal departments, including quotes, schedules, files, etc.
- Ensure system records are accurate and up to date
- Other tasks relevant to the position as required.
About you
Essential experience, abilities and knowledge you’ll need to succeed
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise and multitask
- Strong natural communicator with the ability to build strong relationships
- Thrives in a dynamic environment where collaborative working is essential
- Excellent time management
- Enjoys problem solving and offers effective solutions
- A passion for books.
Desirable skills we’d love you to have
- Confident PC/Mac user. Experience of Adobe CS would be a bonus
- Negotiation
- Administrative skills
- Numeracy and financial awareness
- Project-planning skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
What you’ll get in return
In return we can offer you a range of great projects, a supportive and collaborative working environment as well as a competitive salary and benefits package. Some of the benefits we offer:
- 28 days annual leave increasing with years of service + bank holidays
- Generous pension scheme
- Discounted private medical insurance
- Group income protection scheme
- Enhanced family pay and leave
- Flexible working hours and summer hours (early finish on a Friday during summer months)
- 2 Volunteer Days per year
- 75% off all Pan Macmillan books and regular staff book sales (highly reduced rates)
- Season ticket loan/advance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounts on shopping, Tastecard+ and gym memberships; Christmas club savings
- Daily free breakfast and monthly company lunch
This is a full time, 6 month fixed-term role, and will be based in our offices in Farringdon, London, with some flexibility to work from home each week. All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to live and work in the UK in order to be considered for this role.
At Pan Macmillan, we are highly committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion at every level of our organisation. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Our efforts to promote DEI are ongoing, and we continually strive to learn and improve our policies and practices. Y
Workplace culture
We pride ourselves not just in winning awards and publishing the bestselling books in the market, but also on the wellbeing and satisfaction of everyone who works with us. This is a company where all voices are heard and new, creative ideas are welcomed.
We seek to recruit and develop talent from all backgrounds, creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. This has a profound impact on our perspective and ideas, encouraging us to learn from each other and to nurture the best talent leading us to publish books that appeal to the broadest possible readership.
Our mission is to publish the very best authors and illustrators successfully and sustainably because we believe that books enrich people’s lives and help build empathy and understanding.
Our values
To ensure that everyone who works at Pan Macmillan delivers on our mission and shares the same goals, we have developed a set of values that define our working culture and are the foundation of our publishing. These values were derived in consultation with the whole company and they are deliberately illustrated in a circle to underline a lack of hierarchy in importance.
