2027 Summer Internship- National Accounts Sales Department (NYC)
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HarperCollins Publishers
New York, NY, US
Summary
The intern will assist the National Accounts Sales Department by preparing sales presentations, managing online collections in Edelweiss, and optimizing e-commerce product pages. They will also support sales tracking, analysis, and the creation of promotional newsletters for key accounts.
Job Description
Overview
The National Accounts Sales Department internship role is a unique opportunity for someone who loves a challenge and is eager to learn more about adult and children’s book sales across National Accounts/chain bookstores. Ideally, we’re looking for someone with excellent attention to detail, strong communication skills, knowledge of excel and PowerPoint, an awareness of marketplace trends, and an interest in adult and children’s books.
Join a team of dynamic, innovative, hands-on sales reps responsible for bringing adult and children’s books to an ever-changing marketplace.
Responsibilities
- Help prepare online collections in Edelweiss as well as sales presentations in PPT
- Assist in gathering sales materials (both physical and digital) to aid with sell-in
- Optimize e-commerce product pages with appropriate supplemental images/assets
- Maintain lists of key promotional titles at relevant accounts
- Assist in sales tracking and analysis
- Help build monthly newsletters featuring account promotions
- Help support local buys by identifying appropriate store distribution suggestions
- Perform other special business projects for Sales Management team, as appropriate
Qualifications
- Candidates must be available to work in our NYC office from Monday – Thursday for a total of 28 hours per week, from June 7 – August 12, 2027. Compensation for this internship is $18 per hour.
- Candidates who are available to work in a full-time capacity in 2027 or 2028 are eligible for this internship; open to rising seniors, recent graduates, master’s students, or entry level candidates with up to 1 year of work experience.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
- A resume and cover letter are required; applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Please address your cover letter to “Hiring Team.”
- Ideal candidates are either currently enrolled in or have recently graduated from an undergraduate or master’s program.
- A passion for books is highly valued!
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Must be proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite
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.
The deadline to apply is October 1, 2026 by 11:59 pm ET.
HarperCollins Publishers is an equal opportunity employer.
HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.
Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 15 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 250,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp.
The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.
Founded
1817
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Book and Periodical Publishing
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
New York, New York
HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.
Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 15 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 250,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp.
The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.
Founded
1817
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Book and Periodical Publishing
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
New York, New York
