Editorial Assistant

Who we are and what we do

Octopus publish books for everyone. We love to enlighten, nourish, entertain and most of all inspire readers and listeners everywhere.

Octopus is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 10 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.

This position sits within Summersdale Publishing, part of the Octopus Group. Summersdale is a vibrant, award-winning publisher that provides entertaining, informative and innovative content in the genres of general non-fiction, health and well-being, and gift and humour across books, games, decks and other non-book product. We produce a diverse range of over 130 titles per year, with a backlist of over 800 titles.

What you'll be doing

The role

The focus of the role will be to project manage allocated titles, seeing each one through a full series of stages, as well as general editorial and admin tasks. You will be actively contributing to idea generation, creative direction and IP development.

Project management:

• Managing editorial processes (in-house and freelance) for each title and working to a set deadline
• Regularly updating the project management system and other in-house information databases (a working knowledge of Biblio would be advantageous)

Editorial work:

• Writing briefing documents for new...

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