Sales Representative, Gift and Special Markets

Overview:
**Company**: HarperCollins Canada

**Department**: Sales

**Reporting To**: Senior Sales Representative, National Accounts

**Status**: Regular Full Time

**Location**: 22 Adelaide Street West, Toronto (hybrid model, with occasional travel within North America, as needed)

We celebrate and support the differences that make each of us unique, striving to create a welcoming workplace that ensures everyone has a voice and is able to do their best work. We welcome all applicants, including those who identify with groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry including, but not limited to, Black, Indigenous, people of colour, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, and persons with disabilities. Join us, and share your story.

**Job Summary**:
In this role, you will be responsible for selling HarperCollins and Harlequin titles to the Canadian Gift markets, and non-traditional markets including corporations, subscription box programs and author orders/events.

**Responsibilities**:
**Manage Gift Market accounts**:

- Process Gift account orders
- Organize for the Bi-Annual Toronto Gift Fair
- Acquire new accounts

**Process non-traditional orders**:

- Corporate sales
- Event sales
- Author sales
- Subscription Boxes

**Code new accounts for the Sales Department**:

- Code new delivery accounts end of each month
- Update any account changes

**Hire and Supervise Sales Interns**:

- Manage their workload
- Assign them projects and tasks

Qualifications:
Specific training or job experience required includes:

- 1-2 years of relevant sales experience
- High degree of written and verbal communication skills
- Able to multi-task, prioritize, and remain cool under pressure
- Able to work in a team environment and independently
- Excellent organizational abilities
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite, including strong knowledge of Excel
- Excellent leadership skills
- Book publishing courses or certificate an asset
- Driver’s License an asset

**What's in It For You?**
- The opportunity to be part of a company on the leading edge of publishing, working with a very talented team and exceptional books
- Summer Hours from late May to early September
- Remote work, flexible start/stop times
- Paid time off days and vacation allotment, starting at three weeks (prorated based on start date)
- Flexible benefit plans to fit your needs and pension matching
- Various virtual social activities to keep you connected - we love trivia
- Virtual author events and access to discounted books
- Working with passionate people

**About HarperCollins Canada and Harlequin**

**Harlequin** is a leading publisher of commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. We publish more than 100 titles a month that reach audiences globally. Encompassing highly recognizable imprints that span a broad number of genres, we are home to many award-winning New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors. Harlequin is a division of
**HarperCollins Publishers**, the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Through HarperCollins’s global publishing program, Harlequin titles are published in 17 countries and 16 languages.

Known worldwide for the quality of its list,
**HarperCollins Canada** is the proud home of many bestselling and award-winning authors, including Esi Edugyan, Heather O’Neill, and Lawrence Hill. It is our vision to publish the best books of our generation and to work with authors over the length and breadth of their careers. Our authors are at the centre of everything we do. In addition to the Canadian publishing program, HarperCollins Canada is responsible for the sales, marketing, and publicity of HarperCollins titles from around the globe.

HarperCollins Canada and Harlequin are