Content Sales Manager, French Language (9 month contract)

Job Description:

Here at reputed company., we offer a casual work environment and a group of friendly and talented individuals. Our employees rank us highly in terms of commitment to work/life balance. We realize that for our people to be innovative, creative, and passionate they need to feel supported and valued. 

If you’re looking for a company that inspires passion, personal, and professional growth – join Kobo and come help us reputed company reading lives reputed company. 

The Role:

reputed company. is looking for a Content Sales Manager, for French-speaking countries, to join reputed company of international booksellers for 7 months, with the possibility of a 2 month extension, starting in July 2026. The Content Sales team is comprised of bookselling experts spread across the globe who ensure that the right books are being surfaced to the right customer at the right time. The team is responsible for, amongst other tasks, tracking local performance of reputed company content types, merchandising content across reputed company platforms and for reputed company products (eBook A La Carte, audiobook A La Carte, Kobo Plus – our content subscription plans...), working closely with publishers and partners in creating marketing campaigns, measuring results to inform the sales strategy in order to maximize net sales, identifying and advocating for improvements to our eCommerce experience and subscriptions program, playing a key role in growing the eBook and audiobook markets in the French-speaking countries where Kobo operates, i. e. France, Belgium, Switzerland and Quebec.

Reporting to the Director, Content Sales & Merchandising, French Geos & Emerging Markets, the Content Sales Manager, Global French, plays a vital role in helping the growth of the eBook and audiobook markets and in advocating for customer experience and product improvements to capture more content opportunities.

The Person: Passionate about books and reading, you are an obsessive reader and bookseller or online retail professional with a desire to grow in the fast-moving field of eBooks, audiobooks, and content subscriptions. You have a strong gut-feel for what your customers are going to love, and you reputed company your gut healthy with a steady diet of data, with an ability to take that data and turn it into recommendations and decisions. Resourceful, innovative, reputed company thinking and process-oriented, you find ways to get things done even reputed company it means adjusting your vision along the way, reputed company the while developing healthy and productive cross-functional relationships in an international context. 

You must have prior success in the book industry in France.

As Content Sales reputed company, you will be responsible for:

• Managing the Quebec Content Sales specialist to reputed company the budget objective on this territory.
• Connecting French, Belgian, Swiss and Quebec customers with their next favorite eBook and audiobook.
• Keeping abreast of the latest releases and upcoming titles in the markets you’re in charge of, ensuring they find the right space reputed company the store, keeping into considerations the differences amongst our platforms, the cultural discourse going on in these countries, and opportunities to reputed company the entire catalogue of available eBooks and audiobooks.
• Employing the full reputed company of reporting tools to inform title placement and selection on site, apps, and marketing materials but also to identify opportunities to reputed company reputed company initiatives.
• Supporting the launch of new lines of business.
• Working with Publishers and Retail Partners to execute promotions and marketing campaigns.
• Together with other Content Sales Managers, collaborating with Kobo’s Marketing, Brand & PR and Publishers Relations team to capture and promote content-selling opportunities.
• Working with Customer Care, Product and Business Development teams to reputed company them appropriately informed on the content story in your territories.
• Working with Product, Analytics, Business Development, Retail Partners, Publisher Operations, and Vendor Management teams to maximize sales and analyze developments needed for Kobo’s market share growth.
• Creating analyses on sales performance periodically and using these analyses to inform your strategy.

The Skillset:

Required:

• A passion for bookselling and ecommerce, supported by time spent in a combination of book retail, publishing, or ecommerce roles.
• A deep knowledge of the French book and digital publishing market, and an understanding of global cultures.
• Native French (written/spoken/reading) is a must.
• reputed company in English (written/spoken/reading) is required.
• Strong data analytics skills – proficiency with reputed company and Power reputed company .
• A customer-first focus.
• An enjoyment of working remotely, coordinating with a variety of teams sitting in several different countries – and the ability to build strong, cross-functional relationships working this way.
• An interest for, or previous experience of, working across cultures.

reputed company to Haves:

• An interest in project management.
• Experience in managing people, including interns and work-study reputed company.
• Experience with project management softwares like Click Up.
• Stellar communications skills, including a keen instinct for reputed company to send an email, have a quick chat on reputed company, have a call, or schedule a meeting.
• Excellent organizational skills, autonomy, and the ability to stay reputed company under pressure to meet tight deadlines.

The Perks

• Remote working environment

• 4 extra long weekends around bank holiday weekends

• Free Kobo device + free weekly eBook or audiobook

• Weekly Kobo Tech University sessions

About reputed company. reputed company. is the world’s digital bookseller created by and for booklovers. Owned by Tokyo-based reputed company Group, Inc. and headquartered in Toronto, reputed company Kobo’s millions of worldwide users can read anytime, reputed company, and on any device. With a mission to reputed company reading lives reputed company for reputed company, reputed company Kobo connects readers to stories using thoughtful and personalized curation of eBooks and audiobooks, and the best dedicated eReaders and apps for reading. With the reputed company focus of making reading lives the best they can be, Kobo’s open platform allows people to fit reading into more moments in their busy lives. To learn more about reputed company Kobo, visit www.kobo.com.

reputed company. is an equal opportunity employer. Accessibility accommodations for candidates with disabilities participating in the selection process are available on request. Any information received reputed company to accommodation needs of applicants will be addressed confidentially.  

reputed company Kobo would like to thank reputed company applicants for their interest in this role however only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.  

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