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Picador sales director Christine Jones has been appointed as UK sales director at Pan Macmillan.
The announcement follows the departure of of Anna Bond who has been named m.d. of Octopus Publishing Group.
Jones, who has over 30 years of experience in trade publishing, takes up her role immediately and is joining the company's executive team. Divisional sales directors Sarah Clarke, Stuart Dwyer and Brid Enright will report directly to Jones, who will continue to perform her current sales director role for Picador for the immediate future.
Starting off with children's marketing at Penguin in the US, Jones joined Penguin UK and rose to become head of special markets. From there she joined Simon & Schuster UK, where she managed non-traditional sales for the company and led custom publishing unit Martin Books, before being promoted to the role of UK sales director.
In 2010 she joined Australian lifestyle publisher Murdoch Books before coming to Pan Mac in 2014 as non-fiction sales director. She worked on the launch of the Bluebird list and led on retail strategy for the first four titles from Joe Wicks. Since 2018 she has been Picador sales director with special responsibility for supermarkets and special sales channels.
Jones said: “The six years since I joined Pan Mac have been the happiest of my career so far: being part of such a wonderful group of people during such a dynamic and successful time has been hugely rewarding to me personally. It is therefore a delight and a privilege to be asked to lead the exceptionally talented UK sales team, alongside my incomparable colleagues Sarah Clarke, Stuart Dwyer and Bríd Enright, and to join Anthony and his hugely impressive senior colleagues on the exec. I am tremendously excited to be part of the next phase of the Pan Mac success story.”
Pan Mac m.d. Anthony Forbes Watson commented: “I have known Christine since our time together at Penguin and have long admired her strategic grasp, clear thinking and collaborative, team-building approach: She has been a key architect of Picador’s resurgence as a leading literary imprint and she brings a full deck of commercial skills and leadership qualities to the role.
He added: "We have been very fortunate to be able to call on a formidably strong and bonded UK sales team over the past three months and I would like to thank Sarah, Stuart, Brid, Christine, and every member of the UK sales team, for the terrific job they have all done as they pulled together to bring us through a period of great disruption. It never even entered my head that this could be anything other than an internal appointment, such is the strength and depth of our team.”