Area Sales Manager, Ireland - 12 month FTC, Remote/Field Based

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Publishing is looking for an Area Sales Manager, Ireland maternity cover to join our established sales team of 3 people selling the Bloomsbury Consumer – Bloomsbury Adult, Children’s, Special Interest and Head of Zeus - titles into the territory of Ireland.

This role presents an exciting opportunity for an experienced, enthusiastic and sales-hungry professional with a real passion for launching and growing the sales of titles from new and established authors, to be a part of the wider, fast-growing, fast-moving and high-performing Sales Team of a top 5 UK publisher.

Bloomsbury is known for some of the bestselling authors in the Irish market, including: J.K Rowling, Madeline Miller, Peter Frankopan, Johann Hari, Elodie Harper, Dan Jones, Sarah J. Maas, Katherine Rundell, Samantha Shannon, Sarah Crossan, Sinéad Crowley, Catherine Doyle, Faith Hogan, Neil Jordan, Louise Kennedy, Colum McCann, Fintan O’Toole, Myles Dungan, Alan Murrin and Niall Williams.

The Role

We are looking for a confident communicator to work collaboratively with internal and external contacts to ambitiously increase our Irish sales in line with Bloomsbury’s overall growth plans working in tandem with our wider sales team to lead our best-in-class salespeople in delivering ambitious and sustainable sales, profit and market growth for authors across the lists.

The Area Sales Manager, Ireland may be responsible for a specific area of the lists and customer base depending on the broader expertise and opportunities that come up through the recruiting process.

The role will report into the Senior Key Account Manager, Ireland and will be based from home in Ireland with team support from the 3rd  team member, a sales assistant based in London, and will require periodic trips to our London office (likely 4 times a year).

• Responsible for sales in the territory, management of the trading relationships and working directly with all customers to grow sales and achieve UK Sales team targets.
• To work closely with different Consumer Teams to maximize all divisional sales through the Irish market.
• Identifying and developing new relationships with potential customers, ensuring customer needs are understood and selecting appropriate product solutions.
• Working with the wider Bloomsbury teams to ensure customers have all the necessary material and information to maximize sales of our books and liaise with office-based contacts to coordinate author events
• Provide general support to the Senior Key Account Manager, Ireland as required, including market research, gathering market feedback and data analysis.
   

Knowledge, skills and experience 

• Previous sales experience required
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Self-motivated and Independent, a self-starter
• Must have a full clean driving license

Additional information

The role is a full-time, 12 month fixed term position, based remotely in Ireland, to start as soon as possible.

Salary Range: £30,500  – £35,000 pa / €35,550 – €40,750 pa depending on experience

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 on Friday 23rd October 2026.

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Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

Bloomsbury Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

Working Pattern

• Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

• 25 days holiday
• 3.5 days Christmas company holiday

 Other Benefits

• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Work Anywhere Fortnight - For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Learning & Development - Free access to LinkedIn Learning, BookMachine Campus, InRehearsal & IPG Skills Hub
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Ride to Work Scheme
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• EAP Advice and Counselling

Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

For additional benefits see below

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required