Penguin Random House UK

About Us

Join the Penguin team at our distribution centre in Colchester, Essex, where you’ll work in a friendly environment, taking satisfaction in a job well done. You'll leave your hard work at the door and be rewarded with a competitive benefits package.

Our specialist teams come together to play their part in facilitating the UK’s leading book distributor.

Customer service, finance, tech, HR, warehouse and distribution colleagues all sustain the scale of our operation with over 650,000 square feet of storage space and 120,000,000 books dispatched each year.

Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

What it’s like to work for us?

You can find out more about what it's like to work for us here: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/what-we-offer/

Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:

27 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days

Medical cover

Life assurance

Cycle to Work scheme

Discounted gym membership

Generous pension scheme

Summer working hours (role dependent)

Volunteering policy and charity matching

Employee Assistance programme

Mentoring programme

Extended gender neutral parental leave

Access to free and discounted books and eBooks across Penguin Random House UK

Each site has trained mental health first aiders

We plant a tree for every new employee to our business

The type of jobs we recruit for?

Customer service

Finance

Technology

Warehouse & Distribution

HR

Benefits

Flexible schedule
Work from home
Discounted or free food
On-site parking
Life insurance
Private medical insurance
Private dental insurance
Company pension
Employee discount
Sick pay
Store discounts