- Full time, permanent

- Salary: £35,000, per annum

- Hybrid working potential with 3 days in house, at the Central London office, and 2 days home working

- Closing date: 30 September 2025

Are you skilled at using sales data to inform decisions, drive revenue and achieve budgets? Can you identify commercial opportunities and communicate effectively across multiple relationships?

World-renowned illustrated publisher Thames & Hudson is seeking a confident and commercially focused Sales & Product Manager to join our Distributed Books team.

This is a key role supporting the performance of our diverse portfolio of distributed publishers across global markets. You’ll work closely with the Head of Distributed Books and our global sales teams to monitor title performance, manage stock levels, forecast demand and ensure titles are effectively positioned. You'll also act as a primary point of contact to our distributed publishers in providing feedback and actionable insight.

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded professional who can interpret sales data, communicate clearly and collaborate with teams to drive results and support sales growth.

The Role

• Manage revenue budgets with Head of Distributed Books, focusing on frontlist targets
• Provide strategic support to the global sales teams through reporting, title insights, and analysis for frontlist & backlist titles
• Track sales of seasonal lead titles highlighting stock level risks, ensuring sales targets and forecasts are met
• Deliver market and sales feedback to distributed publishers via updates and business reviews
• Lead on stock ordering and forecasting based on sales trends, promotions, and publisher needs
• Proactively manage inventory: reprints, reorders & excess stock
• Maintain the publication and release schedule aligned with delivery, inventory, and sales opportunities
• Plan and produce the Distributed Publishers seasonal sales catalogue

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Previous experience in publishing with a sound understanding of the publishing process and workflows
• Communication: ability to and have confidence in presenting publishing programmes and participating within sales meetings
• Sales-focused: demonstrates commercial judgement, ability to identify trends and opportunities through analysis of sales reports
• Insight-driven: able to convey sales data both written and verbally into actionable insights that inform decisions and drive results
• Commercially aware: understands how inventory, promotions, and market trends impact sales and profitability
• Collaborative: be able to work closely with distributed publishers and the global sales teams
• Organized & proactive: self-motivated and capable of prioritizing under pressure
• Good knowledge of MS Office, PowerPoint, Excel

Personal Attributes

• Analytical and enquiring mindset with strong attention to detail.
• Organised and able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Collaborative, supportive and proactive team player.
• Creative thinker, open to new approaches and adaptable to change.
• Commercially curious, with a genuine interest in books and the visual arts.

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

At Thames & Hudson, we believe that employing a diverse workforce is essential to our continuing success, 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 covering letter outlining how you meet the requirements above to Sophie Castle, recruitment@thameshudson.co.uk. The deadline for applications is 30 September 2025. 

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

• 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Profit share scheme
• Interest-free loan for a rent deposit or season travel ticket
• Discounts off our lovely T&H books and co-editions
• Generous pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free entry into hundreds of museums and galleries, nationwide

And more!

- Full time, permanent

- Salary: £32,000 per annum

- Hybrid working potential with min 3 days in house, at the Central London office

- Closing date: 28 September 2025

Pictures lie at the very heart of our business at Thames & Hudson, one of the world’s leading publishers of high-quality illustrated books on all aspects of visual culture. There is now an opportunity for you to be part of our dynamic, picture research team, based at our busy offices near King’s Cross. Your keen and wide-ranging interest in art, history, archaeology and culture is demonstrable. In addition to being visually literate you are personable, hard-working, confident, calm and articulate, with excellent organizational, negotiating and computer skills. You enjoy working as part of team as much as on your own initiative and take pride in your meticulous attention to detail.

The Role

• Research high quality, editorially accurate, illustrative material, and clear copyright, for a diverse range of titles
• Liaise with authors, editors, and designers about picture content for each title
• Negotiate competitive reproduction fees and best usage terms
• Provide content to editorial briefs, according to tight schedules and set budgets
• Compile illustration / credit lists following in-house style
• Check and authorise layouts and colour proofs and liaise with production to monitor picture quality
• Clear reproduction permissions with all relevant rights holders
• Select and clear pictures for press and online sales
• Document clearance process, process all relevant invoices and maintain clear and complete filing as per picture research guidelines

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• An arts degree and a willingness to develop your knowledge of archaeology, art history, history, photography, and applied arts
• Familiarity with a wide range of sources including international agencies, artists’ studios, and galleries
• Sound understanding of picture copyright and up-to-date with regulations governing the use of images
• Good negotiating skills
• Demonstrable ability to be proactive, work across multiple projects, prioritise effectively and deliver to
  deadlines and set budgets
• Excellent administration and record-keeping skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office 365/Adobe suite especially Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat
• Knowledge of at least one foreign language 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 our continuing success, 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 covering letter outlining how you meet the requirements above to Sophie
Castle, recruitment@thameshudson.co.uk. The deadline for applications is 28 September 2025. 

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

• 28 days’ holiday plus bank
  holidays
• Profit share scheme
• Interest-free loan for a rent
  deposit or season travel ticket
• Discounts off our lovely T&H
  books and co-editions
• Generous pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free entry into hundreds of
  museums and galleries, nationwide

And more!

- Full-time, permanent contract

- Salary: £28,000 - £32,000 per annum

- Hybrid working potential, based in Central London

- Closing date: 21 September 2025

Are you a passionate and motivated Junior Systems Developer? We have an exciting opportunity to join our collaborative IT team supporting the development, enhancement and maintenance of internal business systems and contributing to the digital infrastructure that powers our daily operations.

World-renowned illustrated publisher Thames & Hudson is seeking an individual with a solid technical foundation and a passion for learning to assist in designing and testing scalable solutions to meet evolving business needs, provide technical support to users, and help maintain critical data workflows and integrations in a fast-paced, supportive environment.

The Role

• Collaborate with the Senior Developer and Business Analyst to translate system requirements into reliable code.
• Develop, enhance and maintain scripts, integrations, and application workflows.
• Test new and existing functionality to identify bugs and performance issues.
• Respond to first- and second-line technical support tickets and liaise with users to troubleshoot problems.
• Contribute to internal knowledge bases and technical documentation.
• Maintain and support our title management and related systems.
• Work with structured data formats including JSON, XML and CSV.
• Assist with data cleansing, import/export, and validation tasks as required.
• Build strong working relationships with colleagues across departments to understand their operational needs. Supporting and guiding users adapting to system changes or upgrades.
• Participate in team meetings and contribute to planning discussions.

Knowledge, skills and experience

You will already have:

• Experience with databases; FileMaker experience is a plus.
• Basic understanding of Python or similar programming languages.
• Familiarity with JSON and API usage.
• An eagerness to learn and develop technical skills.
• Good problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Clear and confident communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A detail-oriented approach, be well organised, and willing to take ownership of tasks.

Experience in these areas are a plus, but not essential:

• Understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
• Experience working with third-party APIs and integrations.
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS and basic web development.
• Knowledge of ETL pipelines or data modelling principles.
• Previous experience in a publishing or creative industry environment

We’re looking for:

• A proactive, adaptable team player with strong time management skills, a collaborative spirit, and a drive for continuous improvement
• An analytical mindset, someone who is always looking for ways to enhance processes

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 21 September 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

And more!