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Jobs
Working at Imagine That Publishing is an opportunity to be part of an innovative, creative and energetic company, with a success story that continues to grow.
Current Vacancies:
Finance Assistant
We are currently recruiting for a Finance Assistant to join our team who has experience in either purchase ledger or sales ledger but with the confidence to learn the other necessary elements of the role, training will be provided. The role will also include other adhoc finance duties such as credit control, credit card management, month end and staff expenses.
We are ideally looking for two people to job share, but full-time will be considered.
Key responsibilities:
- Purchase Ledger Maintenance including agreeing invoices, investigating queries and monthly reconciliation.
- Sales Ledger Maintenance including allocating customer receipts and investigating customer queries.
- Customer invoicing and credit notes.
- Perform monthly reconciliation of sales ledger to the general ledger.
- Perform credit control and debt chasing tasks.
- Apply for credit insurance and carry out credit checks.
- Send out customer statements and overdue letters.
- Processing staff expense claims.
- Processing credit card statements.
- Assist with ad hoc finance tasks as required.
Skills & Experience:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent numerical skills and understanding of sales & purchase ledger accounting transactions.
- Proven organizational and time management with an ability to work to deadlines.
- Hands on, organised and accurate in working methodologies with an eye for detail.
- Passionate and hardworking personality.
- MS Office; a hands-on knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- A professional attitude towards business practise.
Could this be you or someone you know? If you are interested in the position above, please send a CV and covering letter to Jo Fenn at jo@imaginethat.com
Custom Publishing Editor
Reporting to the Publishing Director, you will be responsible for project managing and developing all co-editions, reprints (across the company’s imprints) and custom publishing projects. You will identify opportunities in the mass market and will develop new book formats and product specifications in conjunction with the Production team to meet schedules, client budgets and safety requirements.
Key responsibilities:
- Identify opportunities with middle mass market clients worldwide, creating new formats, series and titles that meet their pricing and merchandising requirements.
- Utilise backlist artwork created by the Imagine That and Top That teams to create brand new product lines.
- Managing co-edition, rights and reprint file supplies, ensuring that work meets with client requirements.
- Managing a small team of in-house designers ensuring continued development and training of talent that is in keeping with department and company objectives.
- Managing in-house schedules and workflow to hit critical targets and deadlines.
- Commission third party freelance designers and creative agencies, as and when required.
- Conceive unique and original ideas that reflect distinct needs of middle mass market clients.
- Editing texts and writing your own texts using artwork asset created by the company’s other imprints.
- Providing second edit and proofing checks across the company’s other imprints.
- Developing and maintaining knowledge of key custom publishing clients’ title, theme, format, submission deadlines and pricing requirements to maximise opportunities for presenting new products.
Key skills:
- Extensive knowledge of the middle mass market in the UK and US.
- Book and books-plus format development experience and ability to write new product specifications that can be used by our Production department to get quotes and prototypes.
- Excellent writing, editing and project management skills.
- Experience of managing freelancer designers and suppliers.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Ability to identify design and illustration trends and a good understanding of composition.
- Aptitude for spotting emerging trends that can be incorporated into new title development.
- Good MS Word skills, InDesign skills an advantage.
- Positive, enthusiastic and eager for success.
Could this be you or someone you know? If you are interested in the position above, please send a CV and covering letter to Jo Fenn at jo@imaginethat.com
Designer Imagine That Imprint Team
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated designer to work with the Managing Editor to create a distinct creative vision for our Imagine That imprint and to maintain the quality control of this vision from concept stage through to finished copies.
Key responsibilities:
- Maintain awareness of competitors in the marketplace and be astutely aware of the company’s position within the middle mass market.
- Support design decisions with industry benchmarking and external artistic references.
- Identify new design and illustration trendsincluding areas outside of the book industry and integrate them into commercially successful book design.
- Maintain daily communication with the Managing Editor to ensure timely and cohesive execution and follow-through from manuscript to bound books.
- Build relationships with design and illustration agencies to ensure the company is offered the best work for the best terms.
- Project management and briefing of in-house artworkers, external freelance designers and illustrators.
- Build a network of reliable and talented freelance designers to work on projects during peak periods.
Key skills:
- Minimum of five years commercial design experience.
- Fantastic typographical and cover design skills and a strong aptitude for the Adobe Creative Suite, and above all a real passion for eye-catching, child-focused design.
- Ability to identify new design and illustration trends and to integrate them into commercially successful design.
- Proven track record of preparing books for supply to printers.
- Creative, passionate and hardworking personality.
- Positive, enthusiastic and eager for success.
- Ability to think quickly and adapt to unforeseen challenges at a moment’s notice.
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced deadline driven environment.
- Vector character art illustration aptitude would be beneficial.
Could this be you or someone you know? If you are interested in the position above, please send a CV and covering letter to Jo Fenn at jo@imaginethat.com
Designer Adult Publishing Imprint Team
We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated designer to work with the Managing Editor to create a distinct creative vision for our new adult publishing imprint and to maintain the quality control of this vision from concept stage through to finished copies.
Key responsibilities:
- Maintain awareness of competitors in the marketplace.
- Support design decisions with industry benchmarking and external artistic references.
- Identify new design and illustration trendsincluding areas outside of the book industry and integrate them into commercially successful book design.
- Maintain daily communication with the Managing Editor to ensure timely and cohesive execution and follow-through from manuscript to bound books.
- Build relationships with design and illustration agencies to ensure the company is offered the best work for the best terms.
- Project management and briefing of in-house artworkers, external freelance designers and illustrators.
- Build a network of reliable and talented freelance designers to work on projects during peak periods.
Key skills:
- Minimum of five years commercial design experience, ideally within adult books-plus, adult game packaging or stationery.
- Fantastic typographical and cover design skills and a strong aptitude for the Adobe Creative Suite, and above all a real passion for eye-catching, child-focused design.
- Ability to identify new design and illustration trends and to integrate them into commercially successful design.
- Proven track record of preparing books for supply to printers.
- Creative, passionate and hardworking personality.
- Positive, enthusiastic and eager for success.
- Ability to think quickly and adapt to unforeseen challenges at a moment’s notice.
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced deadline driven environment.
- Vector art illustration aptitude would be beneficial.
Could this be you or someone you know? If you are interested in the position above, please send a CV and covering letter to Jo Fenn at jo@imaginethat.com
Book Prototyper
We are recruiting for a prototyper to work across the company’s imprints. The role involves making up prototype book formats and preproduction sales presentation material using board card and digitally printed paper.
Key responsibilities:
- Creating handmade dummies and other sales presentation materials.
- Assist with design tasks as required.
- Ordering stationery materials needed to create dummies.
Key skills:
- Creative, neat, precise, and dexterous.
- Competent daily use of sharp hand cutting tools such as modeller’s scalpels, adhesives, and laminating film materials.
- Knowledge of working with design applications such as Adobe Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator would be preferable but is not essential as training will be given.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and excellent time management.
- A passionate and hardworking personality.
- Positive, enthusiastic and eager for success.
- A professional can-do attitude and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Could this be you or someone you know? If you are interested in the position above, please send a CV and covering letter to Jo Fenn at jo@imaginethat.com
Mac Artworker
We are looking for an experienced Mac Artworker to work in collaboration with our team of Designers. Reporting to the Custom Publishing Editor, you will be required to print-ready complete design layouts to clearly established briefs as well as handling reprints and custom editions for direct sale to clients. Additional day-to-day duties include correcting and re-supplying archived titles that are necessary for reissues, reprints and foreign co-editions and to create barcodes and other materials required by clients for various purposes.
Key responsibilities:
- Producing print-ready artwork with speed and accuracy.
- Meticulously following artwork briefs.
- Prioritising your work to meet strict production deadlines.
- Using your initiative to find new solutions to art working problems.
- Adapting existing artwork to alternative layouts and/or formats.
- Adapting and/or create templates and cutter guides.
- Creating mock-up images of completed work as and when necessary.Archiving completed work and ensuring that the company Intranet is kept up-to-date with approved work.
Key skills:
- In-depth knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite; in particular InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
- 1-2 years of experience in art working books and brochures for print.
- Keen eye for typographic and reprographic detail, with strong layout skills and a good understanding of composition.
- Possess demonstrable design skills.
- A passionate and hardworking personality.
- Self-Motivated.
- Ambitious and keen to learn.
- Positive, enthusiastic and eager for success.
- Good communication skills.
- Able to work to work quickly and accurately to short deadlines.
Could this be you or someone you know? If you are interested in the position above, please send a CV and covering letter to Jo Fenn at jo@imaginethat.com
International Sales Manager
Location:
Woodbridge, Suffolk
Hours:
Full-time, minimum 1 day a week in the office
The Person:
It is important for us that you can demonstrate the desire and hunger for sales growth, to ensure that you are fit for our team.
You show a passion for process, ensuring that the customer is at the centre of everything you do. Taking time to understand new markets, new trends and highlighting key aspects of our program that is relevant to your customer base.
Through the skills you have developed over your career so far you would be required to think strategically about your territories but also spend time with your colleagues collaborating and sharing new ideas to find solutions to customer problems, ensuring you all converge on the same goal.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage and grow sales within the defined territory.
- Identify new sales opportunities and refine our value proposition to new accounts.
- Negotiate on price, cost, delivery and specifications with buyers and managers.
- Analyse commercial effectiveness of sales activity and use that analysis to develop sales strategies going forward.
- Grow existing partnerships and forge exciting new ones.
- Develop strong relationships with our international English language sales agents to ensure they have everything they need to maximise sales opportunities.
- Deliver fresh new ideas to your team and champion collaboration.
Key skills:
- Proven relationship builder, problem solver and customer champion.
- High level of experience preparing, delivering and servicing a variety of customers.
- Show pride in your work and a clear passion for Children’s books.
- Strategic thinker and contributor of ideas.
- Proven track record in exceeding sales targets.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Ambitious, self-motivated and ability to use initiative.
To be considered for this job vacancy, please submit a Cover Letter, CV and current / expected salary to Jo Fenn at jo@imaginethat.com
Foreign Rights Sales Manager
Key responsibilities:
- Sell co-edition and translation rights across our three children’s imprints to existing accounts.
- Identify and research new business opportunities for sales growth.
- Maximise rights sales turnover and profit for agreed territories.
- Negotiate on price, costs, delivery and specifications with buyers.
- Liaise with internal customers to satisfy the business and customer needs.
- Manage annual trip budget and forecasting.
- Attend book fairs and undertake regular sales trips to allocated territories.
Key skills:
- Established rights sales experience within Children’s Publishing.
- Experience in selling co-editions.
- Strong and highly developed leadership skills.
- Proven track record in exceeding sales target.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Fluency in a second language is desirable.
- Financially and commercially astute.
- Proven organizational, time management and strategic planning skills.
- Ambitious, self-motivated and ability to use initiative.
- A professional attitude towards business practise.
Could this be you or someone you know? If you are interested in the position above, please send a CV and covering letter to Jo Fenn at jo@imaginethat.com
Speculative Applications
Are you a sensational sales person? Marvellous marketer? Dazzling designer? Excellent editor?
We are always interested in hearing from creative, passionate and driven individuals who want to work in the world of children’s books.
If you would like to make a speculative application for any of the departments listed below, please send a CV and covering letter to Jo Fenn at jo@imaginethat.com
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