Sales Operations Assistant

Description

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

Rebellion Publishing is seeking an enthusiastic, confident and well-organised Sales Operations Assistant to join our team! This is a full-time, fixed-term contract for 12 months, based at our Oxford HQ.

Sales operations executives play a vital role in driving the success of a company's sales and production team. They are responsible for optimizing sales processes, analyzing data, management of stock holding and ensuring the smooth operation of sales activities

The role includes maintaining metadata, handling the operational and logistical aspects of customer/specials orders, support sales managers with presentations and reports. Working on the company’s stock management, managing reprint recommendations, and book, comic and tabletop game distribution to provide support in the smooth running of all sales operations related functions.

This is an excellent entry-level opportunity for someone wanting to take their first steps within an incredibly creative, innovative and award-winning publisher, as part of a successful and highly motivated team.

This role is based at our riverside headquarters in Oxford, offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success. We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Keep our publishing metadata accurate, up to date, and on schedule across all imprints.
• Track and analyse sales and stock data, recommending reprints and spotting opportunities.
• Monitor frontlist and backlist stock to ensure the right books are in the right place at the right time.
• Be the go-to link between distribution, sales, production, editorial, and finance.
• Create impactful sell-in materials that help our sales team shine in meetings.
• Work closely with distributors, warehouses, and fulfilment partners to keep operations running smoothly.
• Manage special order requirements, from packaging to customs paperwork.
• Make sure direct customer orders are processed and invoiced without delay.

Requirements

• Strong administrative and organisational skills.
• Confident using Excel and other MS Office programs.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build productive relationships.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Quick to learn new processes and systems.
• Self-assured and able to work well under pressure.
• Publishing degree (BA or MA) or equivalent knowledge/experience is a bonus.
• Previous publishing or office/admin experience is helpful but not essential.

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days) & Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

Life at Our Oxford HQ

Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.

Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city’s train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.

Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!

Inside Rebellion

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Find out more about us here

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers