Sales Assistant
| Posting date: | 20 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £27,000 per month |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 September 2025 |
| Location: | Vauxhall, South West London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Dorling Kindersley |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Are you an enthusiastic team player with excellent communication skills and commercial awareness?
We are looking for a Sales Assistant to join our busy Mass Market, Non-Traditional, B2B Sales & Special Sales Channel within the DK UK Sales department, and be a key member of our team.
Duties will include full administrative support to the Head of the channel, one Sales Manager and two Key Account Managers with a range of tasks, including meeting preparation involving liaising with internal departments to secure materials, gathering and ordering samples and putting together presentations using ESK, PowerPoint and Google Slides.
Other responsibilities include:
Daily order processing including communication with our customer service and warehouse teams.
Completing title submissions grids.
Running sales reports using Business Objects, SAP and Nielsen Bookscan.
Collating marketing and PR information.
Responding to customers’ communication, monitoring competitor activity, and other tasks to enable the team to achieve the channel sales targets.
The ability to prioritise a varied and demanding workload is essential.
The role is also responsible for management of the Sales Inbox and ad hoc small sales, so we are looking for someone proficient at dealing with customers face to face, on screen and on the phone, with excellent written and verbal presentation skills.
The role requires someone who can demonstrate a confident, positive and professional approach in managing relationships with key colleagues across all DK departments and with a variety of external contacts at all levels of business.
We are looking for someone who is highly organised with a can-do attitude, good system skills, a strong eye for detail and the ability to problem-solve, multi-task and stick to deadlines. If you have a passion for publishing, great relationship building experience, are a good team player and are commercially aware and driven then this could be the role for you.
Salary: up to £27,000 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits
Closing date for applications: 2 September 2025
We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our people, some of which are:
25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one, plus bank holidays
Generous pension scheme
Volunteering policy and charity matching
Employee assistance programme
60% discount on company books
Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership
Flex Fridays (1pm Finish*)
Shopping discounts
Up to 30 days remote working from abroad*
And we plant a tree for every new employee to our business
DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background. DK is proud to announce that we have adopted The Halo Code.
DK is a member of the disability confident scheme. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.
DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working weekly from home and in DK’s office.
The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade, but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews or undertaking internships. For more information, visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org
*Subject to certain criteria being met.
We are looking for a Sales Assistant to join our busy Mass Market, Non-Traditional, B2B Sales & Special Sales Channel within the DK UK Sales department, and be a key member of our team.
Duties will include full administrative support to the Head of the channel, one Sales Manager and two Key Account Managers with a range of tasks, including meeting preparation involving liaising with internal departments to secure materials, gathering and ordering samples and putting together presentations using ESK, PowerPoint and Google Slides.
Other responsibilities include:
Daily order processing including communication with our customer service and warehouse teams.
Completing title submissions grids.
Running sales reports using Business Objects, SAP and Nielsen Bookscan.
Collating marketing and PR information.
Responding to customers’ communication, monitoring competitor activity, and other tasks to enable the team to achieve the channel sales targets.
The ability to prioritise a varied and demanding workload is essential.
The role is also responsible for management of the Sales Inbox and ad hoc small sales, so we are looking for someone proficient at dealing with customers face to face, on screen and on the phone, with excellent written and verbal presentation skills.
The role requires someone who can demonstrate a confident, positive and professional approach in managing relationships with key colleagues across all DK departments and with a variety of external contacts at all levels of business.
We are looking for someone who is highly organised with a can-do attitude, good system skills, a strong eye for detail and the ability to problem-solve, multi-task and stick to deadlines. If you have a passion for publishing, great relationship building experience, are a good team player and are commercially aware and driven then this could be the role for you.
Salary: up to £27,000 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits
Closing date for applications: 2 September 2025
We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our people, some of which are:
25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one, plus bank holidays
Generous pension scheme
Volunteering policy and charity matching
Employee assistance programme
60% discount on company books
Cycle to work scheme and discounted gym membership
Flex Fridays (1pm Finish*)
Shopping discounts
Up to 30 days remote working from abroad*
And we plant a tree for every new employee to our business
DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background. DK is proud to announce that we have adopted The Halo Code.
DK is a member of the disability confident scheme. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.
DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working weekly from home and in DK’s office.
The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade, but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews or undertaking internships. For more information, visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org
*Subject to certain criteria being met.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.