Are you a proactive, detail-driven individual who likes helping to strengthen and grow businesses with data analysis and strategy? Dundurn Press is looking for a Metadata and Inventory Associate to join the company, supporting the team with inventory management and creating, managing, and finessing our metadata and analytics systems. This is a role for someone with a keen interest in supporting your colleagues with excellence.

Reporting to the Publisher and Chief Financial Officer, this two-part role is a full-time hybrid position that will include a minimum of  two (2) days per week at Dundurn Press’s Leslieville office.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

METADATA

1. Ensure metadata records are accurate and updated when required:
   1. Support the Sales and Marketing team with metadata updates for catalogues and other materials and activities as requested
   2. Support the Editorial and Production team with timely metadata change requests, Cataloging In Publication (CIP), and ISBN orders, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) submissions, and other activities as requested
   3. Support Finance/Accounting with inventory and metadata reports on request
2. Action regular updates and modifications to metadata to meet sales and other deadlines, catalogue production, and to ensure metadata feeds are accurate and up to date at all times
3. Handle associated tasks in a systematic and reliable fashion (e.g. price changes, ISBN updates, etc.)
4. Systematize a house style for metadata based on onix best practices to encourage discoverability and sales revenue growth
5. Directly communicate and liaise with ebook distributors for assets management and fulfillment efficiency
6. Ensure metadata feeds to print distributors, ebook distributors, the web development team, and others, are submitted with accuracy and without errors 

INVENTORY

1. Action ongoing inventory management tasks, including daily view, reprints under consideration, reprints in progress, titles at risk, bulk order requests, etc according to inventory, sales profile by title, and company-directed printing requirements to meet sales and other deadlines
2. Directly communicate and liaise with book distributors for  inventory management and fulfillment efficiency
3. Manage inventory and logistics matters at various warehouses maintained by 3rd party fulfillment providers
4. Manage consolidated shipments between warehouses and providers for both new publications and backlist titles
5. Reconcile print on demand orders and invoices and liaise with POD vendor(s) to understand and resolve supply, billing, set-up or other issues
6. Support true print on demand economic analysis and title set-up
7. As part of a team, determine target inventory levels for publications by region and manage third party provider inventory issues 
8. Manage print-to-order and pulp-on-return status for existing titles with third party fulfillment providers
9. Manage ecommerce and direct sale order logistics as needed, including issue resolution

GENERAL

1. Proactively address potential issues, troubleshoot, and flag risk considerations to the Publisher and Chief Financial Officer
2. Other tasks as assigned

The ideal candidate for this position has skills and experience in the following areas:

• Proactive attention to detail
• Inventory management and analysis
• Metadata management and Onix best practices
• Web development and backend website maintenance
• Working independently, completing tasks in support of the team and the company overall
• Understanding the unique nature and needs of the publishing industry in North America
• Working with a variety of integrated and partially-integrated digital workspace environments including Google Workspace, BooksOnix, DropBox, knowledge of HTML and website management, etc

This is a full time position with a benefits package available following a successful probationary period. Annual salary in the range of $45,000-$50,000 and is commensurate with skills and experience. Dundurn Press is an inclusive company striving to represent Canada in its full diversity through our practices and publishing list. To ensure equity of opportunity, we encourage applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds. We recognize all diverse experiences including but not limited to ancestry, culture, ethnicity, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status.

Interested candidates can submit their cover letter and resume to [email protected] with the subject line “Metadata and Inventory Associate” no later than June 26, 2026 by 5pm Eastern time. We thank all applicants for their interest but only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

ABOUT DUNDURN PRESS

Dundurn Press is one of the largest independent publishing houses in Canada with a focus on nonfiction including Canadian history, politics, and society, true crime, biography and memoir, and business and finance books as well as fiction including mystery and thriller. Our Rare Machines imprint publishes innovative and engaging literary fiction representing the diversity of experience across literary communities. Our backlist includes over 2,000 active titles.