Publicity and Marketing Assistant

Granta

CLOSING DATE: 27/03/2019

CONTACT: Pru Rowlandson
[email protected]
020 76051373

Granta Publications is one of the leading independent publishers in Britain, publishing fiction, non-fiction, poetry and a quarterly literary magazine.

We are looking for an energetic, organised and creative Publicity and Marketing Assistant to join our busy campaigns team based in our West London office.

The successful candidate will:

• Be highly organised and a motivated multi-tasker
• Have excellent written communication skills with the ability to write engaging copy for press releases and social media materials
• Have the ability to work to deadlines
• Be a confident communicator – comfortable liaising with authors, agents and journalists
• Be digitally savvy, with experience of design software a bonus
• Be a passionate reader

Closing date: Wednesday 27^th March

Salary – £22,000 pa with 25 days holiday plus all public holidays.

Please email your CV and covering letter to [email protected]

Senior Marketing Manager | Maternity Cover

Simon & Schuster UK

CLOSING DATE: 31/05/2019

CONTACT: Recruitment Team
[email protected]
020 7316 1900

Campaigns Manager/Senior Campaigns Manager, Penguin Business

Penguin Random House

CLOSING DATE: 10 March 2019

CONTACT: Recruiting Manager

Do you have what it takes to lead the communications strategy for a thriving smart thinking imprint?  Would you love to help Seth Godin make a ruckus? Could you find even more fans for Simon Sinek around the world?  Do you know how to make a book campaign contagious?

Then we’ve got the perfect job for you.

We’re looking for a senior member of our Communications team to get readers talking about our books and authors.

Penguin Business (formerly Portfolio Penguin) is Penguin’s business and smart thinking focused imprint publishing cutting-edge ideas in leadership, management, entrepreneurship, finance, innovation, professional skills and narrative business. Our books that are packed full of practical advice to help you change the way you work and do business. Our bestselling, internationally renowned authors include Simon Sinek, Eric Ries, Seth Godin, Rachel Botsman, General Stanley McChrystal and Sophia Amoruso.

We are looking for an experienced communications professional with at least three years’ experience in PR or marketing to join us as Campaigns Manager.   You will be shaping our communications strategy and developing and running your own marketing and publicity campaigns to reach targeted readers for each book we publish.

You will be an excellent communicator, skilled at forming collaborative working relationships with both authors and colleagues and brimming with original ideas for engaging readers online.  You’ll have exceptional attention to detail, able to manage complex schedules and the logistics in a busy office environment.  You’ll thrive in a creative culture which nurtures enduring professional relationships and offers excellent training in a friendly, supportive team.  You’ll be a voracious reader with, ideally, a passion for smart thinking.

If this sounds like your dream job, we’d love to hear from you.

How to Apply

Please apply with your covering letter and CV no later than midnight on Sunday 10th March. 

We’ll be publishing a new series of books on the future of business aimed at senior managers and leaders with the first four titles publishing in September next year.  Imagining an unlimited budget, in your cover letter please identify a target audience for this series and outline three targets for your campaign comprising of one PR and two marketing ideas.

Apply here

Marketing and Website Assistant

Faber & Faber

CLOSING DATE: 18 March 2019

CONTACT: Recruiting Manager
[email protected]

We are looking for a Marketing and Website Assistant to join the Faber Marketing Department.

Undertaking their own campaigns right from the start, this job will suit somebody who is full of brilliant ideas which they can carry forward with their own initiative. We’re not looking for somebody with any specific work experience or particular qualifications, but applicants should be able to demonstrate a passion for book marketing, a strong creative sensibility, excellent copywriting skills and an impeccable eye for design. Also within the role is responsibility for the upkeep of faber.co.uk, thinking up effective ways to sell our books from the site and ensuring an excellent customer experience for anyone shopping with us ­– you need to be digitally minded and comfortable with website maintenance. The Marketing and Website Assistant will provide general support to the department, helping on larger campaigns, maintaining our spreadsheets and systems, and lending a hand at events. This is the perfect role for somebody who is passionate about literary publishing and finding new ways to reach readers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Campaign marketing for titles across our fiction and non-fiction publishing
• General upkeep and customer services support for faber.co.uk
• Supporting other team members on larger campaigns
• Management of CMS, WordPress blog and Magento platform
• Briefing designers, film makers, animators and media agencies
• Producing sell-in including proofs, presenters, and samplers
• Ensuring campaign activity is delivered on time and to budget
• Social media strategy for our books and authors
• Supporting at Faber Social and Faber Members events
• General department support as needed
• Updating and maintaining budget sheets and organisational documents

To apply please send your CV and covering letter addressed to the Recruiting Manager at [email protected], telling us a bit about yourself and why you’re perfect for this job.

Competitive salary and benefits

Closing date: 18 March 2019

Marketing temp

Jessica Kingsley Publishers

CLOSING DATE: 25/02/2019

CONTACT: Sarah Plows
[email protected]
02072332307

An imprint of Hachette UK, Jessica Kingsley Publishers is a growing company that has a strong social justice agenda and is committed to publishing books that make a difference to people’s lives.

We’re seeking a temporary Marketing Executive to join our friendly and dynamic marketing team for up to 4 weeks. This role involves supporting the team on a variety of projects and running campaigns to promote our books on education, SEN and teen mental health.

Key responsibilities:

• Email marketing
• Social media promotions
• Sending review copies to specialist press contacts
• Copywriting
• Producing flyers

Experience / skills required:

• Marketing experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Good copywriting
• Ability to manage workload to deadlines
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Adobe InDesign
• HTML desirable

Deadline: 25 February

Based in our London office, close to King’s Cross

Salary: £14ph.

Marketing Manager / Senior Marketing Manager

Digital and Communications, Pan Macmillan

CLOSING DATE: 16/02/2019

CONTACT: [email protected]

Pan Macmillan is one of the most successful publishers in the UK, winning Publisher of the Year twice in the last three years with market-beating year-on-year growth over the last five years. The Pan Division is home to a broad range of authors in all formats, from established fiction brands such as Jeffrey Archer, David Baldacci, Ann Cleeves, Lucy Diamond, Ken Follett, Peter James, Karen Swan, Kate Morton, Kate Mosse, Lucinda Riley, CJ Sansom, Danielle Steel and Joanna Trollope to breakout debuts such as Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen’s The Wife Between Us. Pan also includes thriving SFF and Crime lists and publishes a variety of non-fiction including the major autobiography to come this year from Elton John, books from Louis Theroux to Kevin Keegan and a growing business books list.

We have an exciting opportunity for a creative, commercially aware and highly organized marketeer to join Pan Macmillan’s energetic, award-winning Communications team. As Marketing Manager/Senior Marketing Manager you will be responsible for planning and implementing effective, audience-appropriate tactics to promote a wide range of commercial fiction and non-fiction, from high-potential debuts to established, market-leading brands. You’ll be passionate about great communication, and understand how this works across everything from the 3D package of a book through to great creative for outdoor and social. You’ll have a strong design sense and the ability to brief effective creative as well as to write and brief copy for a range of audiences.  You’ll be comfortable working across a variety of channels including social, print and partnerships and you will have experience of managing your own campaign spends.

To apply, please submit your named CV and named covering letter confirming your current salary and notice period, quoting reference PAN/001/19 via email to [email protected]

Senior Marketing Manager, Bloomsbury Children’s Books

CLOSING DATE:

CONTACT:
[email protected]

The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Marketing Manager with a passion for children’s books and successful track record with key contacts in the children’s book world to join the marketing team of Bloomsbury Children’s Books. Bloomsbury is the home to many bestselling household names, such as J.K. Rowling, Sarah J. Maas, Neil Gaiman, Katherine Rundell, Michael Rosen, Sarah Crossan and David Tazzyman.

Reporting to the Head of Children’s Marketing and Publicity, the Senior Marketing Manager will lead a small marketing team, creating and implementing integrated marketing campaigns, working with our key authors on our award-winning children’s trade list.

The role

• Create and drive marketing campaigns for key children’s titles across picture book, non-fiction, fiction and YA lists
• Manage a marketing team comprising of a Marketing Executive and an Assistant
• Work closely with the children’s publicity team to ensure campaigns are integrated and complementary
• Build good relationships with media (print, broadcast and online) and promote the Bloomsbury brand and authors
• Work creatively alongside event and festival organisers to bring Bloomsbury authors to the public in new and dynamic ways
• Develop new marketing partnerships for the children’s list
• Manage individual title marketing budgets as well as the overall spend
• Use social media to promote and create marketing moments online
• Create and manage strong relationship with editors across the children’s list
• Effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders on all aspects of marketing
• Liaise with the global marketing and publicity teams to ensure that Bloomsbury titles are promoted globally whenever possible
• Attend editorial meetings, reading and feeding in the meeting and involvement in acquisition pitches
• Stay informed about new marketing insights, developments and opportunities

Skills, knowledge and experience

• Significant experience of working in children’s books marketing
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to build and lead effective campaigns and how integrated all aspects of a marketing and publicity campaign have to be
• Full knowledge and understanding of the marketing mix, including digital and traditional advertising, DM, catalogues, promotions and research
• Particular knowledge of digital marketing, particularly community building, using social media, email, online advertising, analytics and SEO across different platforms
• Experience of line-managing staff, ideally a small team
• Experience of budgetary management and control
• Experience of product and/or brand marketing
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Good copy-writing, proof-reading and design-management skills
• Planning and organisational skills, creativity and attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task and work on several different projects simultaneously
• Good time-management and people-management skills
• Experience of marketing products to the book trade, children, parents, librarians, teachers and schools
• Exceptional interpersonal, presentation and organisational skills, in addition to creative flair

The role is a permanent full-time position based at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP. Bloomsbury Publishing offers a competitive salary, great development prospects and generous staff discounts.

To apply, please email your CV and covering letter to [email protected]. The covering letter should include details of a large campaign that you have been responsible for, evidence of how you meet the requirements outlined in the ‘skills, knowledge and experience’ above and your salary expectations.

Please note in the subject line of your email: Senior Marketing Manager Children’s BM1305

The closing date for applications for this role is 13^th May 2018