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Sales Assistant, eBook

🇺🇸 Remote - US 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $50K 💻 Sales 🗓️ August 3rd, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

Macmillan Publishers is hiring a Sales Assistant, eBook. The role involves providing comprehensive administrative support to the eBook trade sales team, managing communication and coordination for sales efforts including Amazon Kindle collaborations, and preparing sales materials and presentations. The Sales Assistant will also handle scheduling, promotions monitoring, and participate in sales strategy meetings to support the sales process.

Highlights
  • Provide full administrative support for the eBook trade sales team
  • Participate in sales and marketing meetings, account calls, and quarterly title presentations
  • Create meeting agendas and monthly communication emails
  • Monitor scheduled eBook price promotions
  • Coordinate support for the Amazon sales team for Kindle
  • Use Microsoft Excel for basic analytics including pivot tables and vlookups
  • Proficient in PowerPoint and Google Slides for preparing title presentations
  • Strong communication, organization, and workflow development skills required
  • Preference for 1-3 years experience in publishing and/or sales and a college degree or equivalent
  • Salary for the position is $50,000

Sales Assistant, eBook Full Description

Sales Assistant, eBook

  • Remote
  • 120 Broadway
    New York, NY 10271, USA
  • Remote
  • Sales
  • Full-Time
  • Requisition #: SALES003452

Description
The eBook Team Sales Assistant will provide full administrative support for the eBook trade sales team.
 
What You'll Do:
  • The Sales Assistant will provide full administrative support for the eBook trade sales team, with some contact with eBook accounts
  • Participate in regular sales and marketing meetings, account calls, and quarterly title presentations
  • Create meeting agendas
  • Monitor scheduled eBook price promotions
  • Create monthly email memos and pub alert emails
  • Coordinate and support for the Amazon sales team for Kindle

What You'll Bring:
  • Outstanding communication skills (verbal and written) and customer service skills
  • Strong organization skills and attention to detail
  • Process-oriented with the ability to develop, document, and improve workflows while ensuring accuracy and consistency
  • Proven ability to work independently on deadlines and manage time efficiently
  • Able to perform basic analytical tasks in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, vlookups, and calculations
  • Proficient in PowerPoint and Google Slides
  • Ability to prepare designed title presentations for customers
  • Understanding of AI tools
  • 1-3 years in publishing and/or sales preferred
  • College Degree or equivalent
The salary for this position is $50,000.

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.