Thobile Mkhize

Marketing Department

Assist with the administration for the Marketing Co-ordinators, Freelance Marketers, Product Trainers and Temporary Marketers, by:

• Checking and processing salary and petrol claims
• Preparing training material for marketers
• Requisition and distribute promotion copies
• Book flights and accommodation
• Assist with the checking of catalogues: titles, ISBN’s and prices are entered correctly.
• Assist at reception/switchboard when necessary.

Publishing Department

Personal Assistant to Publishing Director

• Liaising with Authors and Publishers.
• Proof reading and editing.
• Maintain a comprehensive filing system.
• Tabulate and retrieve Publishing Director’s official expenditures and claims.
• Some research, media relations and promotional work.
• Undertake any other duties as requested by the Publishing Manager.
• Co-ordinate Publishing Director’s travel.
• Assist Public Director manage output, workflow and office deadlines.
• Liaise with relevant individuals, external organisations etc to arrange meetings, prepare agendas.

Publisher (Setswana)

• Co-ordinate author teams, illustration, designers, editors.
• Monitor book development process.
• Maintain and monitor book budgets.
• Keep and maintain schedule of publishing schedule.
• Attend to administrative work.
• Attend to legal obligations of publishing projects.
• Administrative work pertaining publishing project.

Assistant Publisher - Humanities

• Reviewing documents and compiling files in preparation for publication, organising financial or publishing data into a weekly or monthly report.
• Maintain and monitor book budgets.
• Coordinating schedules, liaising with authors and editors, proofreading, and managing documentation.
• Handling communication with different departments, writers, or editors within the company.
• Assist the senior publisher and commissioning editor with development and delivery of a manuscript.
• Provides administrative support to the editorial team (including writing minutes, invoicing and diary management) and throughout the editorial process from manuscript to publication.
• Keep databases, spreadsheets and other records up to date.
• Read documents and make corrections.
• Deal with rights and permissions.
• Commissioning editors, illustrators and proofreaders.
• Liaise with production studio and freelance DTPs for books.
• Plan, coordinate, and revise material for publication in books and ebooks.
• Manage translations for in different languages.
• Proofreading documents before they go into the print press.

• Optimized call scripts by incorporating persuasive language techniques for more impactful conversations with prospects.
• Mastered product knowledge to confidently address customer inquiries while positioning the company''s offerings as an ideal solution for their needs.
• Expanded client base through targeted prospecting efforts, generating new leads for the company''s products or services.
• Boosted sales revenue by consistently meeting and exceeding daily, weekly, and monthly targets with efficient telesales strategies.