Book Promotion Specialist

7 months ago

Winnipeg, Canada FriesenPress Full time

**Book Promotion Specialist**

FriesenPress is the only 100% employee-owned publishing services provider in the world — and we’re growing

We are currently looking for a Book Promotion Specialist to join our remote workforce.

As Canada’s largest publishing service provider, FriesenPress helps authors realize their dream of publishing a book. Our suite of products includes various publishing packages containing a wide range of professional services. From editing, book layout and design, channel distribution, and marketing support, we help writers self-publish and succeed.

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**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Maintain a high level of customer satisfaction throughout a collaborative, multi-faceted, and high touch publishing process.
- Manage author relationships to build a reputation for excellent service and generate repeat business.
- Coordinate activities associated with an author’s book promotion strategy, including assessing their marketing goals and needs, guiding them through market and product analysis research, discussing demographics and advising on target markets and developing a Unique Selling Point to strengthen marketing strategies.
- Provide coaching to authors on how to develop and market an online promotion campaign, build an online audience, and manage various platforms.
- Develop and implement an ongoing sales strategy to meet monthly sales targets. Identify add-on products or services opportunities for authors based on their promotional goals.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that the execution of the author’s project meets their expectations.
- Proactively manage accounts to anticipate potential issues that may impact authors, and promptly resolve any concerns that may arise during the publication process.
- Participate in weekly team meetings in building new strategies and sharing best practices.
- Perform other job assignments as prescribed by Operations Manager, Administration, Design, and Promotion Services.

**Job Requirements**
- Ability to make sound business judgments to meet customer and business goals in the most cost-effective way.
- Ability to proactively identify and manage challenging situations and communicate expectations to both authors and internal parties.
- Self-motivated, with the ability to work as part of a team or independently as required.
- Excellent display of critical thinking and problem-solving skills while upholding a high level of professionalism. Attention to detail is a must.
- Possess strong administrative, organizational, and time-management skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Fluent in written and spoken English.
- Advanced computer literacy; familiarity with Weebly, business marketing with blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, LinkedIn, and other social networking sites.
- Minimum two years of strategic marketing related and customer service experience.
- Prior use of CRM software would be an asset.
- Prior book publishing knowledge would be an asset.

**Core Competencies**
- Accountability and Dependability: Takes personal responsibility for the work they do. Can be trusted to do what is right. Follows through on the things that are expected or required of him/her in his/her position as an employee of FriesenPress.
- Creative and Innovative Thinking: Develops fresh ideas that provide solutions to all types of workplace challenges.
- Communication: Clearly conveys information to a variety of audiences using the tools necessary, engaging the audience to ensure the message is delivered and understood, creating a positive first impression with confidence and respect.
- Customer Focus: Ensures and maintains customer satisfaction with products/services offered by the organization.
- Problem Solving: Resolves difficult and complicated challenges.
- Providing Consultation: Partners with clients to identify and resolve complex and sensitive issues.
- Quality Orientation: Completes tasks keeping in mind all aspects involved regardless of magnitude, checking tasks and processes while having attention to details.
- Teamwork: Promotes cooperation and commitment with the team towards the attainment of common goals. Gets others excited about and committed to furthering the organization’s objectives. Enables cooperative and productive group interactions.
- Time Management: Maximizes time to accomplish as many tasks as possible in a timely manner keeping in mind prioritizing tasks as needed.

**About FriesenPress**

Our team of employee-owners is a dynamic, diverse, and fun-loving group, united by our passions for beautiful books, wonderful writing, and fantastic stories.

Since our founding in 2009, FriesenPress has helped over 5,000 authors realize their dream of publishing a book. As a publishing services provider, our mission is to embrace each book as our own and empower our authors to share their best stories with the world. Our s

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