Full-time, permanent contract

Salary: £28,500 per annum

Hybrid working potential, based in Central London

Closing date: 5 January 2025

World- renowned illustrated publisher Thames & Hudson is looking for an organised, proactive and collaborative International Sales Coordinator to join our busy International Sales team. This is a great role for someone who enjoys keeping complex operations running smoothly, supporting colleagues across multiple markets, and taking real ownership of processes that help our books reach readers worldwide.

You’ll work closely with sales managers, agents, and internal teams across production, marketing and customer services. If you love problem-solving, communicating clearly, and bringing order to fast-moving workloads — and you have an interest in visual culture and illustrated publishing — we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

Supporting international sales

• Helping to grow sales beyond traditional book markets, including non-book retailers.

• Assisting our German-speaking commission sales rep with orders, bibliographic information and returns.

• Coordinating supply-chain queries for our B2C website and ensuring customer orders are delivered smoothly.

Being a trusted team backup

• Providing cover when team members are away — from handling customer enquiries to managing credit issues and processing orders.

• Managing sample requests and supporting agents with accurate bibliographic details.

• Processing author orders to non-UK addresses.

• Supporting all international sales managers during peak periods, especially for exclusive markets.

Sales reporting & communication

• Preparing monthly sales meeting decks and ensuring information is accurate and easy to follow.

• Helping develop digital communication
strategies for our international markets, including messaging and content
creation.

International marketing & event coordination

• Planning and coordinating our presence at major book fairs (Frankfurt, London) — from booking stands to organising stock, graphics and passes.

• Maintaining seasonal sales presentations and new-title order forms.

• Coordinating catalogue mailings and maintaining special-interest title lists.

• Creating and updating backlist/genre/subject catalogues across T&H lists.

• Producing targeted email campaigns that highlight key titles and series.

• Uploading assets to our in-house bibliographic databases.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience in a busy administrative role, juggling multiple tasks and priorities, preferably in a book publishing, sales or retail environment.

• Strong MS Office skills, especially Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

• Confidence working with databases and digital tools, and the use of tools to streamline processes.

• Experience using presentation/design software for marketing and social media.

• Highly organised, attentive to detail and motivated by accuracy.

• A strong communicator who enjoys working with colleagues across departments and cultures.

• A genuine interest in visual arts and the publishing industry.

• Proficiency in additional languages (written and spoken), are a plus.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

At Thames & Hudson, we believe that employing a diverse workforce is essential to succeed and selection decisions are based on applicants’ experience and skills. We welcome applications from everyone, irrespective of age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, race, religion or belief.

To apply, please send your CV with a cover letter to Sophie Castle
at recruitment@thameshudson.co.uk. Use the cover letter to address how you meet the requirements above. The deadline for applications is 5 January 2025.

Some of the benefits of working with us, apart from working with a highly talented and creative bunch of people, we offer:

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Profit share scheme
• Interest-free loan for rent deposit or season travel ticket
• Discounts off our lovely T&H books and co-editions
• Generous pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free entry into hundreds of museums and galleries, nationwide

Full time, permanent contract

Salary: £28,500 per annum
Hybrid working potential, based in Central London
Closing date: 7 January 2026

Thames & Hudson is one of the world’s leading illustrated book publishers. We are looking for a Junior Production Controller to join our highly skilled Production department. This is a brilliant opportunity to be involved in all aspects of high-quality, illustrated, colour book production on reprints and co-editions. If you are someone with some publishing experience, who is keen to pursue the technical and creative side of book production, then this role is for you.

The Role

Working collaboratively within our Production department, you’ll help ensure books are delivered on time, on budget and to the required high standard of quality. With the guidance of the Production Manager, you’ll take ownership of reprints and selected reissues of existing titles.

Your daily tasks will include:

· Selecting suppliers for all aspects of the manufacturing process.

· Repro and print production management for your allocated titles, communicating directly with suppliers.

· Maintaining a high level of quality control throughout all stages of the production process, through careful checking of artwork files, repro proofs and printers’ approval materials.

· Schedule management, communicating clearly with both internal and external stakeholders.

· Working closely with the International Rights department on the production of foreign language co-editions of your allocated titles.

· Keeping up to date with technical developments within the industry and applying them to your working practices as appropriate.

· Working pro-actively and creatively to improve the environmental footprint and sustainability of the list.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Essential: 

· Some previous experience of a book publishing environment.

· A demonstrable interest in how books are made.

· Excellent communication and personal organisational/management skills.

· Strong numerical ability.

· The ability to plan and manage schedules.

· Self-motivated with the drive to deliver results.

· Attention to detail.

· Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, with experience of using a Mac.

· Ability to work on own initiative, while knowing when to ask for advice or assistance whilst supporting other team members.

Desirable:

· Experience in illustrated book publishing.

· Some understanding of the technical pre-press and printing processes involved in the production of books and other related materials.

· Basic knowledge of InDesign and Photoshop

· Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills.

· The numerical ability to understand suppliers’ quotations, prepare production estimates, check suppliers’ invoices and reconcile final costs against budgets.

Personal Attributes:

· Highly focused and enthusiastic.

· Reliable, methodical and conscientious, especially when under pressure.

· Capable of calmly sustaining and delivering the workload to a very high standard.

· Flexible, open-minded and adaptable.

· Responsible, self-motivated and organized.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

At Thames & Hudson, we believe that employing a diverse workforce is essential to succeed and selection decisions are based on applicants’ experience and skills. We welcome applications from everyone, irrespective of age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, race, religion or belief.

To apply, please send your CV with a cover letter to Sophie Castle at recruitment@thameshudson.co.uk. Use the cover letter to address how you meet the requirements listed in Knowledge, Skills and Experience above. The deadline for applications is 7 January 2026.

Some of the benefits of working with us:

Apart from working with a highly talented and creative bunch of people, we offer:

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Profit share scheme
• Interest-free loan for rent deposit or season travel ticket
• Discounts off our lovely T&H books and bought-ins
• Generous pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free entry into hundreds of museums and galleries, nationwide