Jobs at Bertelsmann

Supports international sales operations by managing customer orders, tracking stock and delivery data, processing orders in SAP, producing Excel reports, checking claims, and coordinating with Production, Inventory, customers, and global colleagues to meet deadlines and publication schedules.

Manage Penguin Press sales across UK and international markets, including key retail account relationships, global product leadership, sales support, budgeting, reporting, and deputising for the Sales Director. The role involves collaborating with editorial, marketing, publicity, and international sales teams to maximise title performance, communicate market opportunities, and support retail partners and sales colleagues.

Supports the Hamish Hamilton publishing team with editorial and administrative duties across the book process, from acquisition through publication. Responsibilities include reading submissions, providing feedback, writing cover copy, maintaining title data, clearing permissions, coordinating proofs and author materials, processing invoices, arranging travel, and liaising with authors, agents, and colleagues. The role requires strong organisation, communication, attention to detail, time management, and a genuine interest in books, ideas, culture, and politics.

Provides administrative and publicity support for the book publicity team, including coordinating meetings, processing releases and expenses, communicating with journalists, handling author enquiries, distributing books, and supporting book launches, interviews, events, travel, and accommodation. The role requires strong organization, communication, multitasking, initiative, creativity, and flexibility, with occasional evening and weekend event work.

Leads group-wide strategy, growth, transformation, and corporate development initiatives from opportunity identification through execution. Develops data-driven insights, market analyses, financial models, and business cases; supports senior leadership forums; drives cross-functional implementation across editorial, marketing, technology, finance, and operations. Identifies innovation opportunities, including AI applications, builds organizational alignment, and mentors colleagues across a global publishing business.

Supports publishing rights sales through administrative coordination, contract and invoice processing, reporting, database updates, event organization, sales material preparation, travel booking, and customer communications. The role also involves negotiating and renewing licenses, supplying production files, supporting book fairs and sales trips, and managing multiple projects and stakeholders while representing authors’ rights across international markets.

Manage Ebury’s backlist production, coordinating reprints, reissues, reformats, print orders, schedules, costs, suppliers, shipping, invoicing, and archiving. The role also involves maintaining production data in Biblio, coordinating with Editorial and Design, supporting the Production Manager, and ensuring projects meet budget, schedule, and quality standards.

Own enterprise threat and vulnerability management, including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, remediation, patching, risk prioritization, metrics, tooling integrations, and process improvement. Support broader security operations through threat monitoring, security control reviews, SIEM activities, incident response, endpoint and network protection, and security initiatives. Collaborate with infrastructure, application, external, and business stakeholders to improve organizational security posture.

Acquire and develop titles for the Penguin Classics series, oversee an existing publishing list, and manage key author estates. The role involves editorial commissioning, editing translations and related material, guiding books from acquisition through publication, and collaborating on positioning, copy, design, publicity, and marketing. Building relationships with authors, translators, agents, and estates is essential, along with providing editorial leadership and sound project management.

Designs scalable cloud data architecture, pipelines, models, schemas, and migration strategies, including legacy modernization into Snowflake. Embeds security, governance, quality, performance, GDPR compliance, and analytics enablement across data environments. Partners with product, engineering, data science, analytics, and business stakeholders to translate priorities into architectural designs and support BI, machine learning, and AI use cases.

Paid, fully remote two-week publishing work placement introducing participants to DK’s departments. Participants will join a creative team, attend meetings, try editing and design tasks, collaborate on a group project, and learn about publishing. No degree or previous publishing experience is required. Applicants must be over 18, have UK work authorization, live in or originate from eligible regions outside London and the Home Counties, and commit to full-time participation.

Design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines, models, automation, and Snowflake environments for DK and PRH. Integrate internal and external data sources, support BI reporting with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, manage CI/CD, data governance, monitoring, documentation, testing, and incident resolution. Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, high-quality data solutions and contribute to technical reviews and best practices.

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.

Lead the SAP Basis function and oversee offshore support activities. Manage SAP HANA installations, upgrades, patches, performance, monitoring, troubleshooting, backups, disaster recovery, transports, and technical changes across SAP environments. Support SAP BTP, Cloud ALM, GRC, IAS, and Signavio while ensuring system availability and resilience. Lead complex issue resolution, documentation, stakeholder communication, team mentoring, and out-of-hours go-live or upgrade support.

Lead and develop software engineers while providing technical direction for integration services. The role focuses on modernizing point-to-point integrations into reusable .NET services, APIs, microservices, and event-driven solutions. Responsibilities include setting engineering standards, overseeing CI/CD, testing, security, observability, Agile delivery, developer capability, recruitment, capacity planning, and production support. The manager will also contribute hands-on through code reviews, architecture guidance, pairing, proof-of-concepts, and complex technical problem-solving.

Manage children's book and custom product production from planning through delivery. Coordinate with editorial, design, sales, inventory, finance, and external suppliers to resolve manufacturing, costing, quality, and scheduling challenges. Negotiate with suppliers, improve production processes, support strategic initiatives, and mentor or train team members while ensuring projects meet deadlines, budgets, and quality standards.

Own and evolve the integration architecture and modernization roadmap across APIs, business events, microservices, and Azure services. Define reusable patterns, security and non-functional standards, migration strategies, and governance for legacy and AI-facing interfaces. Guide architecture reviews, prototypes, technical decisions, and delivery teams while partnering with enterprise architecture, security, cloud, data, and engineering stakeholders. The role requires senior software engineering and solution architecture experience, strong C#/.NET and Azure expertise, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and distributed-systems knowledge.

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.