Product Assistant
- Location: London
- Contract type: Permanent
- Salary: £24,000
- Hours: 35 hrs per week
- Job reference: 14.21
Are you passionate about children’s books and getting books into the hands of every child? Was your favourite day at school the Scholastic Book Fair where you could buy a Goosebumps book, a poster of a puppy and a handpointer to terrorise your siblings with? Here’s your chance to work as part of that team!
The Product team at Scholastic are responsible for reading, commissioning and buying all the books we sell at our book fairs, in our clubs leaflets and in our online shop. From lift-the-flap board books to young adult thrillers, the latest Netflix tie in to space encyclopaedias, award winning authors to books about Baby Shark, we sell everything!
Working in the Product team is the perfect job to start your career in publishing. You will work with every department in the company, getting an insight in to what they do day-to-day and the part they play in the publishing chain. You will have a hand working on all aspects from buying, sales, merchandising, marketing and design. Not only that, but you will make great relationships and have regular meetings with all children’s publishers. You will see everything that is being published – an insight into the children’s market that no other role in publishing offers.
As the Product Assistant, you will be responsible for assisting the managers and director across all aspects of their roles, and undertaking any accompanying admin tasks. You will have a demonstrable high standard of written and verbal communication, as well as an eye for detail and high-accuracy proofing skills. You will be as good with numbers as you are words – you’d be surprised how much work in publishing is achieved through Excel and data reports! You will be just as comfortable working on long-term projects as with short deadlines and schedules. This requires excellent multi-tasking skills, high levels of organisation and proven time management skills. Most importantly, you will be passionate about getting children reading and our mission to get every child access to books.
This really is one of the most diverse roles in publishing with so much opportunity to experience different things – no two days are the same. Join us!
If this sounds like the role for you please get in touch by sending your CV, along with a covering letter, quoting job reference number 14.21 to vacancies@scholastic.co.uk
