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 trends including 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.
- Create production specifications for new book, books-plus and novelty book formats, including formats that are unique in the marketplace.
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.
Could this be you or someone you know? If you are interested in the position above, please send a CV and covering letter to Amy Goulding at amy@imaginethat.com
Reporting to the Operations Manager you will assist both the operations and shipping teams with administration support as needed. To include but not limited, liaising with freight forwarders along with logistics and buying teams of well-known retailers and distributors.
Key responsibilities:
- Providing support to the Operations team as needed
- Processing customer orders, working to meet customer requirements, and ensuring on time delivery
- Maintaining strong customer service and building on relationships with both customers and distributors
- Providing a range of administrative support to the shipping team
- Communicating with 3rd party suppliers in the Far East to ensure customer requirements are met and deliveries are made on time to the relative freight forwarders warehouse
- Maintaining key supplier relationships
- General administrative duties including, but not limited to, handling emails, raising Purchase Orders, input of data, checking paperwork and maintaining our CRM database
Skills & Experience:
- Using excel to a high standard daily
- Confidence and a good communicator
- Keen attention to detail
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Positive can-do attitude within a fast-changing environment
- A team player
Could this be you or someone you know? If you are interested in the position above, please send a CV and covering letter to Amy Goulding at amy@imaginethat.com
We are recruiting for a confident and passionate junior sales executive to join our sales team, reporting to the Head of Foreign Rights. You will support the growth of our international publishing partner relationships.
This role is ideally suited for someone looking to progress their career in sales. This is an opportunity to join a company that is on a clear path of growth and play a role in developing the existing customer database alongside nurturing new markets.
Key responsibilities:
- Assist with selling co-edition and translation rights to existing accounts, primarily in Eastern Europe.
- Researching accounts and assisting with pitches for any potential new business opportunities.
- Provide admin support and cover for international sales managers.
- Assisting with preparing presentations and follow-up from meetings with accounts.
- Managing schedules and organising meetings.
- Maintaining an up-to-date customer database.
- Liaising with internal departments (production, finance).
- Attend book-fairs if business requires.
- Ad hoc tasks supporting Foreign Rights team
Key skills:
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- Excellent customer service and communication skills.
- Self-motivated, with ability to use initiative.
- Proven organizational, and time management skills.
- Quick-thinking, responsive, and keen to learn
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- A professional attitude towards business practise.
- Determined, positive and a team player
- Confident with Microsoft operating systems
Could this be you or someone you know? If you are interested in the position above, please send a CV and covering letter to Amy Goulding at amy@imaginethat.com
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