National Accounts Coordinator: Dds

Hachette Australia is currently seeking a National Accounts Coordinator: DDS to join our Sales team. You will be responsible for providing administrative support to the National Accounts Sales team and DDS customers while coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.

National Accounts Coordinator: DDS will be a key support person providing crucial administrative support to the team and maximising sales through collaborative promotional activity and rigorous inventory and data management analysis. 

This role reports to the Senior National Sales Manager: DDS and Non-Trade. This is an excellent opportunity for someone passionate about Sales, and books, and keen to develop in the Sales field. It is a full-time permanent position based in Sydney. 

Key responsibilities include: 

• Provide responsive support to DDS retailers as the first point of contact. 
• Provide administrative support from sales materials for retail presentations to sales reporting, range forecasting and analysis. 
• Management of DDS orders through the lifecycle from order confirmation to delivery to stores.
• Work closely across Hachette departments and our distribution partner ADS.

To be successful in this role you will ideally possess the following skills and experience:

• A tertiary qualification or equivalent work experience 
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in Sales or Business Administration
• Intermediate Skills with Excel and Microsoft Office suite. 
• Strong time management, administration, and organisational skills
• Excellent attention to detail and communications skills
• Experience using feedback and data analysis to make informed and strategic decisions.

What we offer

At Hachette, our people are our greatest assets, and our benefits reflect this. In addition to 20 days annual leave per year and public holidays, we have an extensive list of benefits that include: a wide-ranging training library, development programs including mentoring, up to 50% off book purchases, two community days per year to volunteer at your charity of choice, many employee networks to join, a blend of office-based (three days) and home-based working (two days) per week, mental health support and awareness with free counselling and much more!

Who we are and what we do

We seek out the best stories. We nurture them. Then we share them. Hachette Australia/NZ is a team of expert publishers, publishing professionals and passionate readers dedicated to discovering and supporting talented writers and illustrators in working with them to craft exceptional stories. We select the very best, whatever the genre – from bestselling commercial fiction to literary prize-winners, award-winning children’s books to attention-grabbing memoirs and eye-catching history, lifestyle and sport. And then we pour 100 years of publishing excellence into every page, bringing them to readers in the formats they love.

We are proud to have discovered, nurtured and shared some of the most exciting and bestselling authors in Australia, NZ and the world, including Stephen King, Geraldine Brooks, John Grisham, Maggie O’Farrell, Jessica Townsend, and Rebecca Yarros.  In Australia, we are incredibly committed to seeking out and developing diverse writing talent and publishing stories that reflect the experiences of all Australians. Our ambition is for our staff, our publishing, our authors, illustrators and designers to reflect the society we live in, and our Changing the Story initiative was created to have impactful, meaningful and sustainable change in all areas of diversity and inclusion.

Our Commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend an interview, please let us know.

Applications

If you’re interested in working in our great Sydney CBD location and being the first to hear about and read the biggest and best books in the world, then please submit a resume and a cover letter which outlines your suitability for the role to *******@hachette.com.au by the closing date of Wednesday 13th March. Please note, due to the large volume of applications only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.