Children's Sales Analyst

Overview

We are seeking a data-driven, and detail-oriented Children's Sales Analyst to join our Sales Analysis team, supporting reporting and analysis across our children's book business. This role partners closely with editorial, marketing, and sales colleagues, translating data into insight that informs decisions from weekly sales tracking to author, agent, and estate conversations.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills with a genuine passion for the children's and young adult publishing category. They are eager to deepen their understanding of industry trends and interested in transforming complex data into clear, actionable insights.

This role reports to Sales Analysis leadership.

Responsibilities

• Deliver weekly analysis and reporting on internal sales performance, highlighting key trends, opportunities, and areas of concern.
• Contribute market intelligence and category insights to a weekly newsletter distributed to internal stakeholders.
• Present analyses of market trends, competitive activity, and industry developments during company-wide monthly business reviews.
• Identify titles facing challenges or opportunities and flag them for stakeholder attention.
• Monitor title performance, proactively identifying risks and opportunities and communicating insights to stakeholders.
• Conduct seasonal market-wide analyses of the children's category.
• Develop data-driven analyses and reporting to support author, agent, and estate discussions.
• Partner closely with sales account teams, sales management, and other departments such as editorial and marketing to anticipate and respond to data needs.
• Participate in all relevant weekly meetings for the children's department.
• Provide ad-hoc reporting for business inquires.

Qualifications

• College degree or equivalent work experience.
• NYC Hybrid preferred.
• An analytical outlook and desire to look deeper to understand the data, translating findings into a clear story and actionable takeaways.
• Excellent attention to detail, with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize competing asks.
• Outstanding working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Experience querying relational databases or data warehouses (Access, SQL, BigQuery, or similar) and using business intelligence tools preferred (PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, etc.).
• Interest in or familiarity with the children's and young adult publishing category.

HarperCollins Publishers is a company full of people who are passionate about books.  When you apply for a position, we want to know why you want to work here, and why you are interested in the job. That’s why cover letters are strongly preferred.

The salary range for this position is $70,000-$75,000. We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.  

In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.     

HarperCollins Publishers is an equal opportunity employer.

HarperCollins Publishers is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Note: we will only respond to accommodation requests.