Jobs at Bertelsmann

Provides administrative and team support to senior entertainment executives and the wider Global Entertainment team. Responsibilities include managing complex diaries, coordinating meetings across time zones, preparing presentations and agendas, taking minutes, supporting client events, maintaining communications, greeting stakeholders, and assisting with general team operations. The role also offers exposure to television production and requires strong organization, communication, problem-solving, and Microsoft Office skills.

Leads enterprise-wide strategy, growth, transformation, and corporate development initiatives for a global publishing business. Responsibilities include advising senior leadership, structuring ambiguous challenges, conducting market and financial analysis, developing business cases, driving cross-functional implementation, identifying AI-enabled growth opportunities, and mentoring colleagues. The role requires influencing C-suite stakeholders, coordinating global forums, and translating strategic recommendations into measurable outcomes.

Lead Century Fiction’s commercial fiction publishing list on a nine-month parental-leave contract. Responsibilities include acquiring authors and IP projects, managing titles from acquisition through publication, conducting structural and primary editing, maintaining author and agent relationships, coordinating Sales, Marketing, Publicity and Rights teams, managing schedules and budgets, shaping publishing strategy, and representing the imprint internally and externally.

Provides creative and technical support within a publishing art department. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, finalizing projects, reformatting designs, compositing images in Photoshop, typesetting cover copy, processing editorial corrections, managing print color, and meeting production schedules. The role requires strong design judgment, technical knowledge of Adobe software, attention to detail, communication skills, and an interest in publishing and print production.

Provides editorial and administrative support for the Penguin Classics publishing list. Responsibilities include permissions clearance, cover copy drafting, proofreading, metadata management, retailer feed monitoring, coordinating with authors, agents, translators, academics and internal departments, organising mailouts and meetings, processing expenses and invoices, and conducting background research. The role requires strong organisation, communication, attention to detail, initiative, and enthusiasm for book publishing.

Manage children’s fiction projects from concept through print, including developmental editing, copyediting, proofreading, author and illustrator liaison, brand approvals, and coordination with licensors and creative partners. Collaborate with sales, marketing, publicity, and international teams, develop book concepts, manage timelines and budgets, and prepare sales materials and presentations. The role requires publishing experience, strong editorial skills, commercial awareness, organization, creativity, and familiarity with licensed entertainment properties.

Support the day-to-day operation and development of a new children’s publishing imprint. Responsibilities include managing editorial schedules and critical paths, proofreading, supporting authors, illustrators and agents, writing and editing publishing copy and metadata, coordinating with internal departments and external partners, reading submissions, and contributing ideas for books, series, intellectual property, positioning and packaging.

Lead cross-functional strategic projects from initiation through implementation and hypercare. Manage project teams, resources, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, vendors, and change requests. Develop plans, estimates, status reports, requirements, and presentations while ensuring stage-gate governance and timely delivery. The role includes technology integrations, SAP development, user-data migration, stakeholder communication, vendor evaluation, and supporting adoption of new processes and systems.

Supports and delivers consumer marketing campaigns for lifestyle books across digital, print, and social media. Responsibilities include managing promotional assets, paid advertising, brand partnerships, seasonal campaigns, budgets, approvals, timelines, and campaign reporting. The role collaborates with authors, agencies, Editorial, Sales, Publicity, and international teams to increase pre-orders, book sales, and audience engagement.

Lead and deliver finance transformation across Fremantle UK: design and execute a roadmap, integrate acquired portfolios, standardise processes, implement systems and automation (SAP/BW/FMIS, dashboards, AI), balance Group and local requirements, and drive change to improve reporting quality, efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction.

Work within a small global security team to operate and improve Fremantle's cyber security services. Liaise with an outsourced SOC for alerting and incident response, tune and manage SIEM/EDR/Darktrace/NAD and cloud security platforms, track and support vulnerability remediation, manage vendor SLAs, maintain playbooks and documentation, and support the Group Cyber Security Manager on security improvements.