Sales Assistant

Overview:
**Company**: HarperCollins Canada

**Department**: Sales

**Title**:Sales Assistant

**Reporting To**: Senior Sales Director

**Status**: 12-month Contract Full Time

**Location**: Toronto, Ontario (Hybrid)

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 are 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, and people of colour, and members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, and persons with disabilities.

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**Job purpose**

Sales Assistant, reporting to the Senior Sales Director, will provide support for Amazon sales representative, digital sales team, and general sales department support. Duties include assisting with regular Amazon reports, promo analysis, backend systems support and general catalogue seasonal set-up.

**Responsibilities**:

- **Online & Digital Sales Support (55%)**
- Provide sales support to Amazon rep for Amazon.ca account
- Assist in creating regular sales reports and analysis as needed.
- Assist in creating presentation materials for internal stakeholders.
- Assist in preparing seasonal and monthly buying grids
- Assist in the creation of BL lists for promotion and sales
- Assist with Amazon stock tracking and projections
- **General Sales Support (35%)**
- Attend and assist in setup of the CGTA gift show held twice annually
- Support with title presentation at CND sales conference and other account presentations.
- Performs other duties as assigned or required
- ** Sales Data Support (10%)**
- Assist in the building of seasonal Edelweiss catalogues and launch catalogues
- Audit images and bibliographic data for all digital catalogues
- Assist in loading titles and images to Catalist in advance of national buying appointments
- Assist in loading titles and images to BookManager throughout buying season

Qualifications:

- 1+ year of experience in publishing or book retail would be an asset
- Post-secondary degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
- Publishing Program Certificate would be an asset.
- Knowledge of Canadian Publishing industry.
- Strong data analysis skills
- Strong written & oral communication and critical thinking skills.
- Able to multi-task, and work in a fast-paced environment.
- Must be results driven and take appropriate steps to achieve goals.

**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.