Jobs at Bertelsmann

Design distinctive book covers across fiction and nonfiction genres, developing concepts from briefs through finished artwork and print. Commission and collaborate with illustrators, photographers, designers, authors, and agents while working closely with Editorial, Sales, and Communications. Manage multiple projects and deadlines, communicate creative ideas clearly, and stay informed about design, publishing, and visual culture.

Leads European sales strategy, revenue growth, market share, and sales performance across international territories. Manages sales budgets, market and customer insights, retailer and partner relationships, and collaboration with publishing, marketing, publicity, and product teams. Serves as Product Lead for a publishing division, aligning international opportunities with publishing priorities and influencing senior stakeholders across the organization.

Delivers HR projects and people initiatives across multiple UK sites, supporting organisational change, TUPE transfers, process improvement, workforce planning, employee engagement, and business transformation. Partners with operational leaders and HR teams, uses HR data and metrics to guide decisions, and supports consistent implementation of people strategies. Requires strong UK employment-law knowledge, stakeholder management, project coordination, communication, and analytical skills.

Drive international sales of DK and Sourcebooks titles across European, South American, and Caribbean markets. Manage customer relationships, sales targets, forecasting, negotiations, promotions, orders, market research, and international book-fair participation. Collaborate with marketing and accounts teams to expand market reach, identify growth opportunities, and support global export strategy.

Supports the Quadrille rights team in selling translation rights and fulfilling co-edition and sub-rights agreements. Responsibilities include coordinating with overseas publishers and internal departments, managing production meetings, submitting sales materials and samples, maintaining rights data, producing progress reports, and organizing book fairs and sales trips. The role requires strong communication, organization, multitasking, attention to detail, IT literacy, collaboration, and customer-care skills.

Provides first- and second-line technical support through service channels, walk-up support, deskside assistance, and audiovisual meeting support. Responsibilities include diagnosing and resolving incidents, escalating issues, managing end-user hardware and software assets, configuring mobile devices, maintaining inventory, documenting requests, and communicating with users. The role also supports device provisioning, decommissioning, stock management, and compliance with security requirements while working onsite across London offices.

Manage music copyright clearances, licensing, rights records, cue sheets, contract documentation, and compliance across television productions and digital platforms. Liaise with labels, publishers, collecting societies, composers, producers, broadcasters, and distributors; negotiate routine licences; monitor restrictions and expirations; support budgets, audits, reporting, and rights-management improvements. Advise production teams on copyright risks and assist legal colleagues with music-related commissioning and streamer agreements.

Design market-leading fiction and non-fiction book covers, special editions, box sets, and print-ready artwork. Oversee freelance designers, present concepts to editorial and sales teams, manage artwork and suppliers, and support marketing assets. The role requires strong typography, visual research, print production, commercial awareness, stakeholder management, and the ability to deliver multiple high-quality projects on schedule and budget.

Plans and delivers data-driven marketing campaigns for published books, focusing on in-market, paperback, and backlist titles. Identifies growth opportunities through sales, audience, consumer, and cultural insights; measures and optimizes campaign performance; collaborates with media teams, agencies, designers, and launch teams; and develops reader communities through content, book clubs, influencers, creators, Reddit, and YouTube.

Manage editorial and publishing partnerships for commercial fiction titles, guiding books from existing manuscripts through cover development, production, metadata, and publication. Responsibilities include writing cover and sales copy, coordinating freelancers and proofreads, maintaining author and agent relationships, managing deadlines, updating Biblio and internal systems, and supporting metadata optimization, pitching, and campaign activities.

Leads SAP Basis operations and the technical SAP environment, overseeing offshore support, installations, upgrades, migrations, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, transports, backups, disaster recovery, and system resilience. Manages SAP HANA, ECC, BTP, GRC, Cloud ALM, and Signavio environments; mentors the Basis team, maintains documentation, supports technical changes, and provides on-call assistance for go-lives and upgrades.

Manage fiction and nonfiction titles from manuscript through final files, coordinating authors, editors, designers, freelancers, and production teams. Ensure high-quality copy-editing and proofreading, resolve complex editorial matters, support freelance editors, maintain house styles, and improve workflow-monitoring systems. The role also deputises for the Managing Editorial Director, contributes to production meetings, proofreads marketing materials, and mentors less experienced colleagues.

Oversee books from manuscript through publication, coordinating copy-editing, proofreading, indexing, schedules, budgets, freelancers, authors, and cross-functional teams. Review editorial materials, resolve queries, maintain systems, and ensure titles meet editorial standards and deadlines across fiction and nonfiction. The role requires extensive in-house publishing experience, strong editorial judgment, exceptional attention to detail, and effective relationship management.

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.