Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a proven leader in commercial fiction publishing to join our stellar and expanding editorial team. Working across the list, which includes Hodder Fiction, Hodder Digital and Hodderscape, you will lead the fiction team and strategy, line management, commissioning and brand building, seek new business opportunities and drive the publishing programme. The role covers a range of editorial and management responsibilities, including embedding a clear publishing strategy to build strong business growth, ensuring quality and delivery of the publishing programme, maintaining good relationships with authors, agents and third‑party partners, and overseeing all aspects of the publishing programme, including budgets and P&L. You will manage the team to ensure high levels of productivity, inclusivity, entrepreneurial thinking, commitment and morale, and participate in wider Hodder & Stoughton initiatives as part of the Heads of Department group.
Responsibilities
* Embed a clear publishing strategy to drive revenue and profit growth while ensuring quality and delivery of the publishing programme.
* Maintain strong relationships with authors, agents and third‑party partners.
* Oversee all aspects of the publishing programme, including budgets and P&L management.
* Manage the fiction team to achieve high productivity, inclusivity, entrepreneurial thinking, commitment and morale.
* Participate in wider Hodder & Stoughton initiatives as part of the Heads of Department group.
Qualifications & Experience
* Significant publishing experience in relevant areas, including creating programmes of commercially successful publishing.
* Excellent relationships with a wide range of agents and contacts.
* Expert market knowledge and the ability to conceive strategy in this area.
* P&L management experience.
* People management experience.
* Superb communication skills and an entrepreneurial and business development aptitude.
* Proactive, highly organised, confident candidate ready to hit the ground running.
* Team player with meticulous attention to detail, a can‑do and enthusiastic attitude, and genuine interest in learning and development.
* Self‑starter able to manage time effectively, prioritise and work well under pressure across teams.
* Demonstrable passion and enthusiasm for commercial fiction in all its forms.
Benefits
* 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years’ service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years’ (+ bank holidays)
* Private medical insurance
* Dental insurance
* Generous pension schemes
* Rent deposit loans
* 2 community days per year
* Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
* Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Eye care vouchers
* Wide-ranging training library
* Development programmes (including mentoring)
* Up to 70% off book purchases
* A charity bookshelf
* 12 Staff‑led employee networks that are voluntary, including AgeWise, Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
* Season ticket loans
* And much more!
Location & Working Arrangements
The role will be based at our London or Sheffield office, with a blend of in‑office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week. We employ people on the basis of their abilities and aim to attract and develop talent from a broad range of backgrounds, including age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio‑economic, regional and cultural backgrounds. If you are shortlisted and need any adjustments to help you attend an interview, please let us know.
About the Company
Hodder & Stoughton is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 10 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. With over 150 years of ground‑breaking publishing, we love to find new ground, audiences and voices with every title we publish. We are passionate readers who believe in the power of words to change lives.
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