Head of Literary Marketing, Little Brown

Little, Brown

CLOSING DATE: 30/06/2019

CONTACT: Hermione Ireland
[email protected]
+44 (0)20 3122 7000

Who we are and what we do

Little, Brown Book Group, four-time winner of the Publisher of the Year Award, is one of the most successful and dynamic publishers in the UK. Across fourteen imprints, we publish as wide a range of titles as anyone in the industry, and pride ourselves on the quality, variety and diversity of our publishing output. Our award-winning marketing department creates consistently impactful and innovative campaigns, building buzz and awareness and driving book sales.

What you’ll be doing

Little, Brown Book Group is looking for a talented, energetic marketer to take on strategic management of all our literary marketing activity under the Little, Brown, Virago, Dialogue, Fleet, Corsair and Abacus imprints. These imprints are home to a wide range of literary fiction and non-fiction, including bestselling, award-winning authors such as Sarah Waters, David Sedaris, Jane Harper, Alexander McCall Smith, Celeste Ng, Margaret Atwood and many more.

Reporting to the Marketing Director, this is a senior role in the team, with involvement in the acquisitions and publishing strategies for these imprints and line management of a Senior Marketing Executive.

Job requirements include:

• Strategic responsibility for all our literary marketing activity
• Close involvement in acquisitions
• Campaign work across our top authors
• Expert knowledge of social media
• A thorough understanding of direct-to-consumer channels
• Developing successful working relationships with key colleagues across the business
• Proactively seeking out creative ways to promote titles
• Rigorous analysis of campaign results

Who we’re looking for

The ideal candidate will be motivated, proactive and, crucially, a big reader of literary fiction and non-fiction. They will also have experience of managing people and of working in a busy marketing department at a trade publisher and with senior colleagues across the business.

To be considered for this role you will need to demonstrate campaign experience, so in addition to sending us your CV, please include this in your covering letter.

Skills should include:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Professional experience using all major social media platforms (including scheduling and advertising platforms)
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Excel
• Good working knowledge of WordPress and Photoshop

Our Commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

Please apply with a cv and a covering letter including your campaign experience. Apply to [email protected].

Salary: £45-50,000 depending on experience

Closing date: 30^th June 2019. Applications after this date will not be considered.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Digital Marketing Manager, HarperCollins

HarperCollins

CLOSING DATE: 28 June 2019

CONTACT: na

Role overview

A dynamic and exciting marketing role working for HarperCollins’ new dedicated digital publishing division, One More Chapter. Working across a diverse and dedicated range of Digital fiction titles, including Crime and Thriller, General Fiction and Romance, with responsibility for leading and executing the marketing strategy for titles published across both the UK and US, which deliver clear-consumer cut-through and demonstrable return on investment.

Responsibilities

• Originating digital marketing strategy to drive sales and build brand equity across the list

• Planning and executing marketing campaigns across a range of titles and authors

• Developing year-round strategies alongside the Publishing Director to cover PPC, Search, CRM, and social media

• Line-managing the Marketing Executive, setting clear goals and objectives

• Working closely with bloggers, vloggers and influencers to drive interest and sales

• Working closely with reading communities and platforms to maximise exposure and engagement for each book release

• Working closely with authors to advise best practise to maximise sales potential

• Responsible for consumer-facing marketing channels, including managing social media and website

• Working closely with the digital sales team to coordinate marketing activity in support of digital promotions

• Working closely with the pricing team to maximise consumer reach and return on investment

• Exploring and securing brand and media partnerships to increase title and brand awareness

• Ensuring competitive advantage and analysing the marketplace for growth opportunities

• Originating and managing the marketing budget

• Analysing all marketing activity and setting clear metrics for growth

Role Requirements

Key Skills/Experience

• Degree or equivalent

• Digital experience from the publishing industry

• Digital marketing professional qualification preferred

• Success in planning and running digital marketing campaigns with proven ROI

• Full grasp of web-related technology and web marketing techniques

• Experience of working to budgets and deadlines

• Experience in an editorially-riven culture

• Asset creation and Photoshop/InDesign knowledge

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to express technical and creative vision clearly

• Copywriting skills

• Strong eye for design

• Excellent organisational skills

Disposition

• Professional

• Innovative

• Analytical

• Collaborative

• Sense of humour

Apply here.

Marketing Manager, Cornerstone

Cornerstone

CLOSING DATE: 26/06/2019

CONTACT: Rebecca Ikin

Are you full of creative and exciting ideas?

Know what it takes to deliver a great marketing campaign?

Want to work with high-profile commercial and literary titles and brands across fiction and non-fiction?

If you answered yes to the above, we might have the perfect opportunity for you.

We’re looking for a Marketing Manager to join our Cornerstone division. You’ll develop marketing campaigns for a range of Cornerstone titles – from pitch at acquisition, right through to post-campaign review.

As Marketing Manager, you’ll manage all aspects of campaign strategy and execution across both business-to-business and direct-to-consumer activity including: writing copy and briefing designers, planning media with our agency and liaising with a wide range of creative and digital agencies and partners. There may also be the opportunity to work across divisions on key group projects.

This role is both creative and strategic, so you’ll be able to demonstrate a strong track record in successfully planning, implementing and analysing a wide variety of campaigns.

The ideal candidate will have a marketing background, solid experience in running digital campaigns, excellent copywriting skills, delight in creativity and possess a strong eye for design. A background in publishing or entertainment/culture/brands would be an advantage.

You’ll be a self-starter, organised and able to work to tight deadlines, often under pressure and with excellent attention to detail.  It also goes without saying you’ll be able to connect with and influence people, from presentations and stakeholder management, to working exceptionally well in a team.

On top of that you’ll have a results-driven approach to delivering quality work, strong digital and social media skills, and a proven commitment to maintaining and enhancing your learning in this area.

This is senior campaigns role within the Cornerstone Marketing team and requires demonstrable experience at this level.  You might be a Senior Marketing Executive ready for the next step, or you could already be a Marketing Manager looking for a new challenge.

If this sounds like your ideal role, please apply here with your cover letter, CV, and an example of a recent campaign that demonstrates your suitability for this role by 25^th June.

About us: Cornerstone publishes a broad portfolio of titles across fiction and non-fiction; commercial and literary. We have five hardback imprints: William Heinemann, Hutchinson, Century, Preface and Random House Books, and two paperback lists: Arrow (and Young Arrow) and Windmill – which between them publish something for every reader. We are proud to publish some of the most successful fiction and non-fiction brands in the world including: James Patterson, E L James, Harlan Coben, Robert Harris, Sebastian Faulks, Star Wars, Katie Fforde, Tim Peake, David Jason, and John Cleese.

Deputy Head, Children’s Marketing

The Quarto Group

CLOSING DATE: 14/06/2019

CONTACT: Katherine Josselyn
[email protected]
+44 (0)20 7812 8651

This is an exciting opportunity for a senior children’s marketer to develop their leadership qualities and shape strategies to directly drive sales growth.

As Deputy Head, Children’s Marketing you will oversee UK consumer and trade marketing activity across Quarto’s children’s lists including Wide Eyed Editions, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, words&pictures and QED. Working closely with the Campaigns Director you will manage and implement strategies that drive sales for the Little People, Big Dreams series, Pre-school, Education and individual lead title campaigns. You will collaborate with UK Sales to develop Trade marketing campaigns and be responsible for delivering an exciting AMS revenue growth target.

You will manage the day-to-day children’s marketing budget and title allocation, reporting to the Campaigns Director. You will enjoy having a leading role in energizing our children’s team to achieve their goals, collaborating with our US colleagues and providing an experienced voice for Publishers.

Key Responsibilities include

• Amazon Marketing Services (AMS) campaign execution, budgeting and reporting
• Little People, Big Dreams brand management within global growth strategy including budget, consumer, retail activity and online presence
• To manage Pre-school and Educational campaigns across lists, including paid and earned promotions, core outreach, Levelling and resources, and developing focus groups
• Plan and execute effective marketing strategies for lead titles supported by the team
• Trade marketing – develop key account and wholesale school/library promotional strategies and attending meetings
• Leadership – line manage Children’s Campaigns Officer and freelancer(s), plus manage the Children’s responsibilities of the Communities and Social Media Executive

Skills, knowledge and experience

Essential

• Enthusiastic, focused team player with people management experience
• Direct experience running AMS campaigns
• Excellent knowledge of children’s 0-12 age marketing opportunities including school and library associations, pre-school and non-fiction
• A demonstrable interest in digital-first marketing and community building
• Hard-working, proactive, collaborative – enjoy working with close-knit teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication including internal and external relations plus effective writing, briefing, pitching, presenting
• Confident negotiator
• Exceptional organisational, time management and prioritisation skills, with experience working across multiple imprints

Desirable

• Passion and drive to deliver for a strong growth area of the business
• A flair for creative marketing to make our design-led titles stand out in the market
• Independent yet collaborative – able to use initiative to realise effective, efficient working practices

Salary

Competitive + benefits

Please send CV and covering letter by 14^th June to the Campaigns Director, [email protected]

Marketing and Publicity Assistant

Bloomsbury Publishing

CLOSING DATE: 10/06/2019

CONTACT: Bloomsbury HR
[email protected]
(0)20 7631 5600

Marketing & Publicity Assistant (Special Interest Non-Fiction)

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Publishing is looking for an enthusiastic and meticulous Marketing and Publicity Assistant to join the creative and innovative Adult Marketing and Publicity team at Bloomsbury Publishing, working across the Special Interest non-fiction imprints. Imprints include: Continuum, Green Tree, Sport, Business, Wildlife, Philip Wilson and Sigma. Our award-winning publishing lists include a wide range of distinguished non-fiction from current affairs to popular science, from religion to wellbeing, and from business to fine art, alongside with the world’s most famous sports book, The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Our acclaimed list of authors includes: Douglas Murray, Vassos Alexander, Diana Moran, Tony Little, Jules Howard and Christine Armstrong.

The role

• Provide support to the marketing and publicity teams across their campaigns including assisting with and organising events and accompanying authors to events and interviews
• Ownership of some marketing and publicity campaigns and involvement in development of special interest strategy and outreach
• Creation of social media campaigns and assets
• Management of administrative tasks
• Responsibility for internal communication of publicity coverage and events schedule
• Administrative support on quarterly marketing launch & review meetings
• General publicity and marketing contact for public and media, via phone and email
• Responsibility for writing e-newsletters and updating areas of the website
• Assisting with set up and manning of stands at exhibitions
• Reporting line to Senior Head of Adult Marketing and Publicity – Non-Fiction

Skills, knowledge, experience

• Excellent organizational, timekeeping and multi-tasking skills
• Great attention to detail
• Passion for reading
• Keen interest in social media
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong relationship building skills, internally and externally

The role is based at Bloomsbury’s London office – 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP.

To apply, please send a CV, covering letter, current salary details and notice period to [email protected] closing date is 10^th June 2019.

Marketing Executive

Hachette Children's Group

CLOSING DATE: 09/06/2019

CONTACT: Fi Evans (Marketing) Anna Cavender (HR)
[email protected]
020 3122 6000

Who we are and what we do
Hachette Children’s Group is one of the largest children’s publishers in the UK with an excellent track record in creating bestselling and award-winning books for children of all ages and interests. Across its imprints, Hachette Children’s Group publishes a diverse range of books to cater for every child, including picture books, fiction, non-fiction and series and licensed publishing. We are the home of award-winning bestsellers such as Kes Gray and Jim Field, Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees, Cressida Cowell, Jessica Townsend, Nadiya Hussain, Patrice Lawrence, Piers Torday, Onjali Q Raúf, Dermot O’Leary, Lauren Child and Francesca Simon.

What you’ll be doing
The successful candidate will be responsible for creating, delivering and measuring on and offline campaigns across Hachette Children’s Group’s pre-school, picture books, series, licensing and young & illustrated fiction and non-fiction list, ranging from established authors and brands to debut launches.

They’ll report to the Senior Marketing Manager and work closely with them, and the rest of the team, to provide support across high profile campaigns as directed. They’ll have specific responsibility for managing the picture book channels and HCG’s PopJam digital channels, with supervision.

Who we’re looking for
The successful candidate will be creative and passionate about marketing in the world of children’s books, with at least 2 years’ experience in marketing, ideally within the publishing industry.

They will be an excellent communicator, have strong copywriting skills, an eye for design and knowledge of all areas of book marketing – from digital to sell in, advertising to partnerships. Some experience of Photoshop or InDesign would be preferable. The successful candidate will have a can-do attitude and be able to effectively manage their time and prioritise their workload.

What we offer
We offer a creative and dynamic environment within an enthusiastic and collaborative team. As part of Hachette, you will benefit from an extensive training library and development schemes such as mentoring.

Our Commitment
Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

Salary
circa £25,000 depending on experience

For further infromation, or to apply online visit: https://jobs.hachette.co.uk/jobs/job/Marketing-Executive-Hachette-Childrens-Group/115?_ga=2.138020656.1287785742.1559209706-2105061417.1539786602

Marketing Officer

Walker Books

CLOSING DATE: 09/06/2019

CONTACT: Jill Kidson (Marketing); Kim Davey (HR)
[email protected]
020 7396 2698

Reports to: Head of Consumer Marketing

Introduction to this role

Walker Books, the UK’s leading independent children’s book publisher, is home to a prestigious list of award-winning and bestselling authors, illustrators and brands.

We have an opportunity for a creative and proactive Marketing Officer to play a key role in our busy consumer marketing team, devising and implementing effective campaigns across our list.

Your role will involve writing engaging copy, briefing our in-house design team and external agencies, managing campaign budgets, developing partnerships with third parties, and      co-ordinating consumer marketing activity at events.

Working with our Digital Marketing Officer you will co-ordinate the digital and social elements of your campaigns, including running our picture books blog, setting up social media advertising, creating videos/trailers, sending email newsletters and updating campaign websites.

We’re looking for a creative marketeer with plenty of ideas for campaigns that will engage readers and drive sales. You will have a strong background in marketing, be a confident communicator, and adept at juggling a range of projects and deadlines.

The position requires a passion for children’s books and publishing, therefore candidates will need to have previous publishing experience, or experience working with key children’s brands.

Role profile: 

To be responsible for the creation, implementation and execution of innovative consumer marketing plans for books, brands, authors and licensed product 

• Contribute ideas and opinions to marketing strategy and campaign planning meetings, working closely with colleagues in publicity and trade marketing to co-ordinate activity
• Write engaging promotional copy across a wide range of marketing materials and media
• Brief in-house designer and external agencies (e.g. media agency) on projects
• Develop relationships with appropriate third parties to promote Walker Books, brands and authors
• Cost and monitor budgets for campaigns, ensuring the in-house budget is updated
• Develop relationships with print suppliers and liaise with in-house production team to ensure best price for promotional material
• Analysis of campaigns to inform future planning
• Maximise opportunities for sampling/data collection at events and organisation of marketing events where relevant
• Develop relationships with key authors and their agents/estates and communicate marketing plans with them on a regular basis
• Co-ordinate consumer marketing activity at events as appropriate
• Contribute to monthly board reports updating on consumer activity

To work with the Digital Marketing Officer on all aspects of digital marketing, social media and website activity 

• Assist with and co-ordinate digital marketing elements of campaigns including:
• Social media advertising
• Working with illustrators/freelancers on the creation of videos and trailers
• Pulling together assets and content for online campaigns
• Updating campaign mini sites and competition pages
• Creating and managing email newsletters
• Liaising with authors on their online marketing ideas, and supporting them where appropriate
• Working with PR on campaign ideas to engage online influencers
• Keeping abreast of emerging digital trends, with an awareness of the new opportunities presented by digital marketing

General responsibilities 

• To attend events as and when necessary, including evenings and weekends
• To undertake any additional duties as required in order to support the Marketing Department in order to achieve the objectives of the department and Walker Books Ltd

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Marketing Officer

The following experience, skills and knowledge are essential:

Experience of:

• The basic principles of marketing
• Minimum two years in a publishing environment
• Copy-writing, design and marketing skills
• Communicating confidently both in-house and out-of-house
• Working to tight deadlines and juggling a range of campaigns and projects
• Demonstrable understanding of social media marketing and how to apply this to campaigns

Proven Skills in:

• Computer usage, particularly Microsoft office applications – Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• A range of social media platforms
• Website CMS systems and blogging platforms
• Ability to plan, prioritise and manage a varied workload
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a persuasive communicator
• Highly self-motivated and enjoy working as part of a team, but also able to work independently

The following experience is desirable:

• Basic video creation and editing

Knowledge of:

• Children’s book publishing industry, or children’s books

Salary: Competitive with a great benefits package

Location: Vauxhall, London

Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time

Closing date: 9th June 2019

If you are interested in applying for this role please send your CV and Cover Letter to [email protected]

Children’s Marketing Assistant

Bloomsbury Publishing

CLOSING DATE: 20/05/2019

CONTACT: Paula Foster
[email protected]
020 7631 5600

Bloomsbury Children’s Books

Children’s Marketing Assistant

Reporting to: Head of Children’s Marketing and Publicity

Situated in publicity department

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is looking for a bright, energetic and outgoing Children’s Marketing Assistant to join the team. Working across picture books, fiction and non-fiction, this is an exciting opportunity for a creative and organised person who has a passion for children’s books and is ready to begin their career in publishing.

Working as part of a small team, the Children’s Marketing Assistant will provide varied support across the trade marketing team on a wide range of campaigns and assist with general admin for the department. The role will also include assisting the publicity and education teams when required. Bloomsbury is seeking someone who will bring their initiative and a brilliant work ethic to the team.

Bloomsbury is the home to many bestselling household names, such as J.K. Rowling, Sarah J. Maas, Neil Gaiman, Katherine Rundell, Kate Pankurst, Sarah Crossan and Greg James & Chris Smith. This role reports to the Head of Children’s Marketing and Publicity.

Job description

• Assist the marketing team with varied campaign work alongside any ad-hoc and admin based duties
• Brief and produce a variety of marketing materials, such as activity packs, social media assets, POS and sell-in material. Liaising with the internal editorial and design teams, and freelance designers throughout the process
• Manage small-scale marketing campaigns for titles with a low marketing budget.
• Provide copy and brief-in monthly email newsletters
• Manage and update the children’s area of the Bloomsbury website
• Work with Children’s Marketing Executive on the bi-annual children’s catalogue and rights guide, co-ordinating multiple departments within the company
• Manage the Bloomsbury Children’s Books social media channels and coordinate scheduling via SproutSocial
• Coordinate the submissions and content for trade partner newsletters and websites such as World Book Day, LoveReading4Kids and Toppsta.
• Assist with coordinating competitions and sending out prizes
• Work with the publicity assistant to managing interns, providing support and work for them to do
• Work closely with the publicity assistant to organise key conferences throughout the year, including YALC and Comic-Con.
• Providing staff cover events, conferences and launch parties, including those that may fall outside of contracted working hours.
• Check and respond to requests on the general marketing email and forwarding to relevant marketeer when required.
• Assist with selected Bloomsbury Education marketing projects
• Assist Group Director – Consumer Marketing and Publicity with selected admin tasks

Skills, knowledge, experience

• Excellent organisational, timekeeping and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to prioritise an incredibly varied workload
• Great attention to detail and a creative flair
• Passion for children’s literature and publishing industry
• Keen interest in social media and experience using multiple platforms
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Strong relationship building skills, internally and externally
• Photoshop and InDesign skills are desirable but not necessary

The role is a full-time permanent position, based at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP. As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organization, Bloomsbury offers competitive benefits and generous staff discounts.

To apply, please email your CV, a covering letter detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role, salary expectations and notice period.

to [email protected].

Please note in the subject line: Children’s Publicity Assistant BM 2005.

The closing date for applications is Monday 20^th May 2019

Marketing and Publicity Assistant (Creative Access 6 month internship

Profile Books

CLOSING DATE: 26/05/2019

CONTACT: Via Creative Access website
[email protected]
Via Creative Access website

Apply via https://creativeaccess.org.uk/opportunity/marketing-and-publicity-assistant/

Marketing and Publicity Assistant