Inventory and Sales Operations Manager (Maternity Cover)
HarperCollins Publishers
Employment Type: Contract open to part time, 4 days per week. Mat Cover - with the potential to extend.
Location: Hybrid · London, UK 3+ days office based
Seniority: Mid-level
* Closing: 11:55pm, 2nd Mar 2025 GMT
Perks and Benefits
* Work from home option
* Wellness programs
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
* Mentoring/coaching
* Cycle to work scheme
Job Description
HarperCollins is one of the UK’s foremost, diverse and innovative multi-platform publishers. We publish a wide range of books, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction to block-busting thrillers and from fantasy literature to children’s literature and enduring classics. Collins has been publishing educational and informative books since 1819.
Our Sales Operations team is looking for an Inventory and Sales Operations Manager to manage physical inventory and all associated processes, with specific responsibility for the Education and Reference divisions. This is a busy position and you should have previous publishing or inventory management experience, excellent data analysis skills, and a meticulous eye for detail.
Responsibilities
1. Manage stock availability for new titles and backlist through regular stock and sales data analysis and consultation with the sales teams.
2. Deal with queries business-wide regarding customer orders, stock availability, and series titles.
3. Identify reprint requirements and create reprint meeting agendas, proposing quantities, considering stock turn, seasonality, lead times, and margins.
4. Work closely with Production to ensure product is received as required.
5. Act as a key link between various areas in the business, including Customer Services, HarperCollins Distribution, the workshop, UK, Export and School Sales, and Commercial Finance.
6. Identify overstocks and run regular excess stock meetings. Propose actions and deal with pulp, remainder, and donation orders where agreed.
7. Manage multi-title packs, creating workshop orders and monitoring stock levels. Work with the Schools Marketing team, the Workshop, and Production, to ensure optimal availability.
Qualifications
1. Knowledge of publishing or stock management processes – experience of sales operations or inventory management within a bookselling or publishing environment is strongly preferred.
2. Commercially aware, with excellent numerical and analytical skills.
3. Confident in data manipulation within Excel.
4. Strong communication skills with the ability to develop productive working relationships with relevant stakeholders.
5. Excellent organisational skills with high attention to detail.
6. Ability to learn new processes and systems.
7. A self-confident individual who works well under pressure and can take initiative.
8. Experience of problem-solving, proposing solutions, and seeing through to conclusion.
At HarperCollins, we value authenticity and integrity in our recruitment process. To ensure a fair and accurate evaluation of all applications, we ask that all responses to assessment questions reflect your own thoughts, experiences, and capabilities.
If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to stephanie.jemmett@harpercollins.co.uk with subject heading ‘Vacancy Query’ plus the job title and we will aim to get back to you within 5 working days.
Please note, if you are interested in the role you would need to submit your application via Applied. We do not accept email applications.
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