Job Description

Macmillan Audio seeks a Digital Accounts Manager to manage our relationship with digital audiobook retailers and library accounts and maximize sales growth. The role responsibilities include title presentations, coordinating promotions with authors and narrators, strategizing downprice initiatives, and building connections to boost our sales. The ideal candidate will have experience working in publishing, a passion for books and audiobooks, and the ability to both think big picture and execute detail oriented promotions.

What you'll do:

• Act as the main point of contact for our digital audiobook accounts
• Maximize sales growth by strategizing and partnering with accounts.
• Develop account strategies and sales reporting
• Create and present compelling seasonal title presentations
• Regularly highlight our titles in creative and persuasive ways for our accounts
• Coordinate author and narrator promotions
• Build relationships with libraries and librarians through conferences, accounts, and email marketing
• Strategize and execute downpricing campaigns across titles and accounts
• Analyze, review, and report on sales performance, using metrics to inform future strategy decisions and opportunities for growth
• Communicate all pertinent account-specific information to all stakeholders

What you'll bring:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strategic eye for priorities and opportunities
• Strong persuasive skills
• Highly organized, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects.
• Passion for books and audiobooks
• Collaboration across many different departments and interests
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to run reports, analyze data, and communicate key findings/opportunities.

Ideal Experience:

• 5-7 years working in publishing
• College degree or equivalent professional experience required

This role will have an annual salary of $70,000 - $75,000.


Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.


U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.


We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC. Macmillan

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