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About the Role
The Editorial Assistant provides administrative support to an Executive Editor and a Senior Editor within the Forever team, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing. This role requires enthusiasm and knowledge of the romance category.
Responsibilities
- Perform administrative duties, including meeting scheduling, mailings, and expense reports.
- Track schedules, deadlines, and deliverables for assigned projects and follow up with internal and external partners.
- Enter and update title data in the proprietary database system throughout the publishing process.
- Prepare title fact sheets with key selling points and comparative titles.
- Run weekly sales reports.
- Traffic editorial projects through Production, Copyediting, and Marketing, and secure appropriate approvals.
- Prepare pre-acquisition materials, including profit-and-loss statements.
- Read and report on submitted manuscripts and proposals.
- Communicate with authors and agents regarding general questions and updates.
Requirements
- Passion/interest in the romance category.
- Strong organization/administrative ability and meticulous attention to detail.
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Aptitude to communicate effectively in both individual and group settings regardless of audience.
- Ability to anticipate tasks and take initiative to solve problems while taking ownership of situations.
- Knowledge of MS Office programs.
- Knowledge of social media.
Skills
- Romance category knowledge
- Organization
- Administrative ability
- Attention to detail
- Multitasking
- Time management
- Writing skills
- Communication skills
- Problem-solving
- Initiative
- MS Office proficiency
- Social media knowledge
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Hybrid (three days per week in the office)
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry-level
Salary/Compensations
- $52,500
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Basic and supplemental life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Hospital indemnity insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- Health and dependent care FSA
- Commuter benefit plan
- Employee assistance program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Travel assistance
- 401(k)
- Discretionary bonus program
- PTO (15 vacation days, 3 personal days, 10 holidays, generous sick leave)
- Group discounts on auto and home insurance
- Group discounts on legal services
About the Company
- Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.
- The mission of Hachette Book Group is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment, and opportunity.
- HBG is guided by four core pillars: Understanding Consumers, Changing the Story, Owner Mentality, and Growth Mindset.
- As a leading book publisher, HBG believes that including and representing diverse voices in all aspects of its business is fundamental.
- Publishing programs must reflect the broad range of backgrounds, experiences, political views and ideas that shape society and publish books for all readers.
Equal Opportunity
- Hachette Book Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.