Marketing Assistant

Bonnier Books UK

CLOSING DATE: 31 October 2021

CONTACT: Stephen Dumughn

Reports to: Campaigns Director

Location: London – Victoria House

Imprint: Adult trade (Zaffre, Manilla Press, Blink, John Blake, 535, Nine Eight, Lagom)

Salary range: £23,000 – £25,000 per annum

As Marketing Assistant, you’ll be the lynchpin of our busy, creative team and play a key role in helping us to deliver bestselling campaigns for major brand names, upcoming new talent and critically acclaimed authors across our fiction and non-fiction lists.

Providing support for the whole marketing team, you will be responsible for the general administrative upkeep of the department, and possess strong organisational skills that ensure the smooth running of all processes. Your excellent communications skills will enable clear internal communication with key colleagues in sales, publicity, editorial and design.

As the public face of our social media channels, you will be comfortable in creating compelling consumer-facing content across a range of platforms, as well as being adept at working with a range of digital marketing tools. You will have an eye for design and a knack for writing memorable copy, especially on social media.

Above all, you will be a positive, pro-active, and resourceful fast learner, looking for a role that provides plenty of opportunity for career growth and development. You will be a key member of our tight-knit, fast-moving and fun team.

Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities

• Ensure the efficient running of the marketing team through general department admin support
• Creating and scheduling content for a variety of our company and community social media channels, including Instagram, TikTok and Twitter
• Support brand and marketing managers on the planning and execution of key campaigns across both fiction and non-fiction
• Creating and scheduling email marketing campaigns for our key brand authors and direct to consumer communities
• Communicating with key stakeholders, both internal and external, to ensure we are working efficiently with other departments, freelancers and third-party suppliers
• Maximising our efficient use of third-party platforms such as Netgalley and Amazon Advertising

Qualifications and Experience

• Strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple projects at once and deliver work to tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills, including copywriting
• Proactive, calm under pressure, and able to work as both part of a team and independently
• Experienced with Microsoft Office suite, particularly Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Experienced at creating content for a range of social media platforms, including Twitter, Instagram and TikTok
• Familiarity with Mailchimp, Amazon Vendor Services and social advertising platforms beneficial
• Training in marketing or publishing is beneficial, and publishing industry knowledge or experience would be a bonus, but is not required

Bonnier Books UK is committed to building a diverse workforce through positive action. Currently, Black, Asian and Multi-Ethnic employees are under-represented in our workforce and we actively encourage applicants from these groups.

Apply here

Junior Designer

Five Twentyfive Limited

CLOSING DATE: 19/11/2021

CONTACT: Andy Chapman
[email protected]
07710769007

525 are a busy South-West London-based design agency who specialise in supporting Publishers. We provide a wide range of design solutions and assets ranging from small, one-off designs to wide-spread campaigns. This includes online static and animated assets as well as printed material.

We are looking for a designer to join our team who has a good knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite and who is willing to learn quickly and work hard. It is a great opportunity to work on developing your skills as a designer while working in a great industry. Salary on application.

Digital Marketing and Publicity Executive

Joffe Books

CLOSING DATE: 01/09/2021

CONTACT: [email protected]

Joffe Books is looking for an experienced and creative Digital Marketing and Publicity Executive to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone currently working as a marketing executive with a start-up mentality, who is looking for a bit more autonomy in their role and wants to make a real contribution.

Joffe Books is a leading independent publisher, specializing in crime fiction, with a wide-ranging international audience. Joffe Books sold more than 2.8 million books last year and we’re looking to beat that record with your help.

Key duties:
● Using the full marketing mix, including social media, email marketing, and developing and monitoring digital advertising campaigns using Facebook and Amazon ads among others
● Working alongside our digital marketing exec to create marketing campaigns for several books per week, including copy and visuals
● Creating great video ads, eye-catching ad images and brilliant copy
● Ensuring Joffe Books’s profile continues to grow with regular press releases, from social media to trade press to national press, and celebrating our authors’ achievements
● Generating effective publicity for our authors and company brand: author events, blog tours, creating book packs, and more
● Budget strategy with a complete overview of ROI across our platforms/tools
● Monitoring key competitor and market activity
● Developing creative strategies for how we can spend money effectively so we can sell even more books
● Building the mailing list

Experience / skills required:
● Previous digital marketing experience, ideally in the publishing industry. A keen interest in crime/genre fiction
● Previous experience of planning, implementing and measuring digital advertising campaigns
● Proven success with CPC ad campaigns (e.g. Facebook and Amazon ads)
● Copywriting: press releases, ad copy, social media copy, awards submissions, etc.
● A strong eye for design and experience creating ads and/or videos (.gifs/.jpegs, etc.), and other publicity materials
● The ability to communicate with authors, agents and fellow staff effectively and straightforwardly
● Proactive and resourceful with the ability to work independently

This full-time position is based at the Joffe Books office in Shoreditch, London. When our offices re-open, it will be on a working pattern of 2 days office based/3 days home. If this sounds exciting, we would love to hear from you! Email [email protected] with:
• Your CV
• A 100-word blurb about you
• Examples of successful campaigns you have run/contributed to
• Job reference in the subject line ‘JB DIGITAL MARKETING/PUBLICITY EXEC’

Deadline: Wednesday 1 September 2021 (early applicants will be prioritised)
Contact: Emma Grundy Haigh

Marketing Manager, Hachette Children’s Group

Hachette UK

CLOSING DATE: 15/08/2021

CONTACT: [email protected]

020 3122 6000

Who we are and what we do

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented and creative Marketing Manager to join the Hachette Children’s Group Marketing team. Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) 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.

We offer a creative and dynamic environment within an enthusiastic and collaborative team. There is significant opportunity for professional development within the role and, as part of Hachette, you will benefit from an extensive training library and development schemes such as mentoring.

What you will be doing

You’ll report to the Senior Marketing Manager, planning and delivering campaigns across our older middle grade and Young Adult list, ranging from established brands to debut launches. Our bestselling and rising star talent in this area includes Cressida Cowell, Piers Torday, Onjali Rauf, Leigh Bardugo, Juno Dawson and Alice Oseman, to name but a few.

We also publish Enid Blyton, and this role will include specific responsibility for overseeing marketing to support the brand.

What we are looking for

The successful candidate will have substantial marketing experience, ideally within or relevant to the publishing industry. Demonstrable creative ability is vital, married with commercial awareness and a firm focus on ROI. You should be digitally savvy with a flair for harnessing social media, securing partnerships, an excellent copywriter, confident project manager and first-rate communicator. Resourceful and motivated, you will be buzzing with ideas and the knowledge of how to translate them into action, and juggle multiple projects with initiative and efficiency.

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this. In addition to 25 days annual leave days per year + bank holidays, we have an extensive list of benefits that include: a wide-ranging training library, development programmes including mentoring, Cycle to Work vouchers, Private Medical Insurance, eye care vouchers, up to 70% off book purchases, a charity book shelf, 2 volunteer days per year to use at your charity of choice, many employee networks to join, delicious subsidized canteen food, summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months!), season ticket loans, rent deposit loans, generous pension schemes and much more!

The role will begin working from home due to ongoing Covid19 restrictions, but once normality resumes this role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

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.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org 

Apply here

Salary range:  £31,000 – £35,000 per annum (dependent on experience)

Closing date:  15th August 2021

Marketing Manager

Head of Zeus

CLOSING DATE: 20/08/2021

CONTACT: Jessie Sullivan
[email protected]
0207 253 5557

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Marketing Manager to join the award-winning, dynamic Head of Zeus marketing team. The role will work across the entire Head of Zeus portfolio from fiction to non-fiction, adults and kids working with authors being launched at the beginning of their careers as well as household names and international bestsellers such as Dan Jones, Cixin Liu and Michelle Paver.

The role will suit a creative and enthusiastic marketer who thinks commercially and strategically about their audience, understanding how to engage readers with thumb-stopping creative, irresistible copy and multi-channel targeted activity that spans the entire marketing landscape both on and offline. You’ll have the autonomy to ideate and execute your consumer-focused campaigns with the support of a small, collaborative, and friendly team that works across the list, pushing to grow the business in line with our overarching objectives. We encourage and support innovation and pride ourselves on always questioning if we can improve – or even do something completely new – and we often keep an eye on marketers in gaming, apps and TV to find inspiration for new strategies. The role will also work closely with the Head of Marketing so is perfect for someone who is looking to take on more responsibility or begin to learn how to ideate the wider strategy of marketing within a business.

Specific responsibilities include:
Please note that candidates are not expected to have experience in everything below. This is simply to demonstrate what the role will entail.
● Managing, planning and executing innovative multi-channel marketing campaigns, planning strategically across all formats (physical & eBook) and encompassing both our exciting frontlist titles as well as our exceptional backlist
● Developing positioning and pitch from acquisition and evolving as necessary based on consumer engagement
● Brand strategy and development, working across our imprints and with authors to build their brand and build a cult following of readers
● Digital marketing – Amazon advertising, social advertising, social media marketing, email marketing, website management, influencer marketing, blog tours
● Print Marketing – magazine, newspaper, out-of-home
● Partnership marketing – working with our partners such as NetGalley, LoveReading, Caboodle etc.
● Trade Marketing – POS, window displays, retailer communication & promotions
● Data Analysis (especially post-campaign performance)
● Content creation, including briefing designers to produce thumb-stopping visual assets and conversation-starting copy
● Audience development and building including consumer and market research
● Communicating marketing campaigns, strategies and performance to all internal and external stakeholders
● Proactively pursuing new marketing opportunities, new ways of reaching readers and spotting commercial opportunities to increase sales, experimenting and reporting back to the wider team
Please apply if you meet the following:
● Have at least 3 years of relevant experience in marketing – experience in trade publishing is a bonus, but not essential – if you have worked in a marketing role and can demonstrate creative ideas, successful direct-to-consumer strategies, passion for and a broad understanding of the bookselling market then we’d love to hear from you
● Commercially minded with strong strategic ROI-led thinking
● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
● A willingness to learn, evolve and adapt with a keen interest in new marketing opportunities
● Highly organised with the ability to handle multiple projects with changing priorities and deadlines
● Outgoing and driven work ethic with ability to work both independently or as part of a team
● Excels in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment

The role is a full-time permanent position based in our Clerkenwell office. Once the offices re-open we’ll be working partly from home, and partly from the office (2 days a week).
Head of Zeus is an equal opportunities employer and encourages candidates from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.

Salary: c. £32,000 depending on experience

How to apply:
Send your cover letter and CV to Jessie Sullivan (she/her), Head of Marketing, at [email protected] by 20th August 2021.

Communications Manager / Senior Manager

FMcM Associates

CLOSING DATE: 23/07/2021

CONTACT: Fiona McMorrough
[email protected]

Location: London – hybrid working, to be determined by circumstances

Full-time, permanent

£30-40,000, relative to experience

Are you a savvy, well-connected book publicist with fresh ideas, buckets of enthusiasm, and the ability to run strategic, ambitious, prize-winning campaigns? Do you live and breathe fiction – whether it’s literary, crime, translated, commercial or genre – but feel equally at home with the occasional non-fiction title, and are ready to contribute to a very varied client portfolio? Do you have a proven track record of impressing authors at all levels of their career, and know how to go the extra mile to achieve the best results for their brands?

FMcM, one the UK’s leading communications agencies in literature and the arts, wants to hear from you. We are growing our client network all the time, and are keen to expand our dynamic, driven publicity team with a candidate that will help us deliver results.

Core responsibilities:

– Creating and implementing outstanding campaigns, independently and as part of a team

– Nurturing relationships with key journalists, booksellers, event curators and influencers across all channels

– Managing the smooth running of client events and tours independently

– Managing client and author relationships across your portfolio of work

– Supporting the team with work across a variety of new business pitches

– Identifying and building relationships with potential new clients in the publishing space and in your own sphere of influence

– Building your industry profile by attending and participating in industry events

Basic requirements:

– Strong awareness of the current media landscape and UK literary scene

– Excellent network of media contacts, including strong relationships with the commercial, crime and genre fiction community

– Demonstrable experience of delivering creative book campaigns

– Ability to multi-task with good time management skills

– Proven copywriting skills, from press releases to social media content

– Comfortable using Microsoft Office programmes including Word, PowerPoint and Excel

– Awareness and experience using social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

Desirable:

– Basic InDesign skills

Apply to [email protected]

Marketing Manager / Senior Manager

FMcM Associates

CLOSING DATE: 23/07/2021

CONTACT: Fiona McMorrough
[email protected]

Location: London – hybrid working, to be determined by circumstances

Full-time, permanent

£30-40,000, relative to experience

Are you a creative, strategic marketeer with heaps of ambitions and ideas looking for your next step? Do you love the world of books and finding ever more innovative ways to connect the best literature to new audiences? Are you as comfortable running the marketing strands of agenda-setting nationwide campaigns as you are devising result-driven solutions for smaller projects? Do you thrive on impactful social media campaigns, creative video content and standout design to achieve the best for authors, books, literary prizes and some of the most inspirational organisations out there?

FMcM, one the UK’s leading communications agencies in books and the arts, wants to hear from you. We are looking to expand our marketing function with a candidate that will help us achieve our ambitious goals for this strand of the agency’s work, and bring innovative thinking and fresh ideas to the table.

Core responsibilities:

– Devise and run sophisticated, strategic marketing campaigns across FMcM’s broad portfolio of clients, tracking effectiveness and providing insights and analysis

– Integrate all marketing activities with FMcM’s media, social media and content campaigns to achieve maximum impact for our clients, across platforms

– Devise and run impactful social media campaigns that significantly grow our clients’ following, providing insights and data, and continuously innovate FMcM’s work across social media platforms

– Work collaboratively with the wider team on campaign ideas, input on all major pitches and proposals, and devise ways for marketing to drive our work overall

– Oversee all advertising campaigns for clients (across social media, digital and traditional outlets), negotiating and liaising with third-party agencies

– Support the conception and production of impactful social media assets across the client portfolio

– Support video and other content creation, working closely with FMcM’s Head of Content

– Support the design of media releases, kits, proposals, reports and other external documents

– Support the management of client websites, using a variety of content management systems, including Squarespace, WordPress and custom-built platforms

– Set FMcM’s own marketing strategy, identifying touchpoints to effectively promote the best of our work back to the industry, while closely monitoring our competition

Basic requirements:

– Several years’ experience running strategic marketing campaigns, ideally but not necessarily in the books or arts industry

– Strong awareness of current trends in marketing, developments of social media, and innovative approaches to promotional work

– Strong awareness of the UK literary scene

– Ability to multi-task with excellent time management skills

– Proven copywriting skills, from press releases to social media content

– Design experience, using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop

– Strong leadership skills and a willingness to train and share skills internally

Desirable:

– Experience using Adobe Premiere Pro, or familiarity with another video editing software

Apply to [email protected]

Marketing Manager, Adult Trade

Bonnier Books UK

CLOSING DATE: see website

CONTACT: Stephen Dumughn, Marketing Director, Adult Trade

Location: Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square. With flexible home working up to three days per week.

Salary range: £30,000 – £35,000 per annum

Are you a passionate, creative marketer with campaign experience looking to spread your wings and work across a broad range of categories and campaigns?

Bonnier Books UK has a unique opportunity for a marketing manager to join their adult trade team. Reporting to the marketing director, you will be responsible for marketing lead titles across both the adult fiction and non-fiction imprints, developing and implementing multi-channel strategies to create awareness and drive sales. As a resourceful and commercially savvy marketer, you will be adept at reaching and engaging a wide range of consumer audiences and will use your deep experience of working with brands, partners, retailers and authors to help our titles become bestsellers in all formats.

As a key member of a busy, friendly team you will thrive in a highly collaborative environment and you will bring energy, enthusiasm and new ideas to the table, as well as sharable skills that will enable us to grow as a business.

Essential job functions/responsibilities

• Planning and executing best-in-class campaigns for titles across a range of genres including lifestyle, memoir, crime and thriller and reading group
• Work with the adult trade marketing director to set overall strategy for our non-fiction list and imprints
• Work with the campaigns director to shape strategy on key fiction genres
• Manage online communities, with particular responsibility for launch and audience development of a new consumer-facing platform
• Work closely with the non-fiction publishing team on our acquisition strategy in order to keep our publishing anticipating and identifying trends and reacting to market opportunities
• Work closely with the digital Sales team to identify ebook promotional opportunities across the front and backlist, particularly in fiction
• Manage digital platforms including AMS, paid social, SEO and Netgalley
• Generate low-cost online publicity ideas in collaboration with the publicity team
• Create detailed trade campaigns to excite retailer partners and secure promotional slots
• Secure high profile and profitable partnerships for our authors with third parties and suitable brands
• Set KPIs, monitor ROI, and provide ongoing analysis of marketing campaigns to inform our marketing and publishing decisions
• Be the key point of contact for our authors, working closely with high profile talent and their teams to leverage their platforms and drive pre-orders

Apply here.

Head of Marketing – Children’s Books

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

CLOSING DATE: 05/05/2021

CONTACT: Paula Foster

The opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a strategic, creative, consumer-focussed and commercially aware Head of Marketing to join Bloomsbury Children’s books award-winning marketing and publicity team. As Head of Marketing you will be responsible for leading and implementing creative, sales-driven campaigns to promote front and backlist titles and brands across our list.

It’s an exciting opportunity for an imaginative and experienced marketer to create campaigns that break out debut talent, build bestselling names to new heights, and connect readers everywhere with their next great read.

You’ll be an experienced marketer who thinks commercially and strategically about your audiences, and understands how to connect them to their next favourite read with irresistible copy, creatives and conversation-starters – both on- and off-line. You will have experience in working with a broad range of partners to take our books to children and their families globally. You will know how to achieve maximum exposure for our books across all platforms. You’ll have an excellent eye for design and the ability to work across a range of budgets. You’ll be confident at contributing to publishing strategy and positioning as you will be about delivering campaigns for them.

A publishing background is not essential but you will have strong demonstrable experience in marketing content, brands and products to families and children. Experience managing people, budgets and unforgettable campaigns with a positive and collaborative outlook is essential.

You’ll join a dynamic, collaborative and friendly marketing team reporting in to the Group Director, consumer marketing and publicity. Together, and working in close partnership with our Head of Publicity, you will work to grow the children’s business through your targeted, creative, consumer-focused campaigns.

Bloomsbury Children’s Books celebrated list is home to perfect picture books, page-turning middle-grade adventures, blockbuster YA fantasy and award-winning non-fiction. Its award-winning, diverse list includes authors such as Brigid Kemmerer, Catherine Doyle, J.K. Rowling, Jessie Burton, Katherine Rundell, Neil Gaiman and Renée Watson, illustrators such as Chris Riddell, Emily Gravett, Jim Kay, Kate Pankhurst, Rikin Parekh and Tom Percival, as well as breakout voices such as Ben Bailey Smith, Lesley Parr, Kalynn Bayron and Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A. Carter. We are also home to the most famous children’s brand in the world: Harry Potter.

The role
• Manage the children’s marketing team to deliver successful campaign activity for their allocated areas of list responsibility in line with agreed budgets, targets and outcomes.
• Work with the Group Director to audit and facilitate best practice in the team across key areas of marketing
• Work with the Group Director to pinpoint areas of focus for the team across front and backlist titles, ensuring this focus appropriately represents our ambition for key titles.
• Drive key brands, including Harry Potter, forwards, helping to spot consumer, sales and publishing opportunities for these authors and titles.
• Day-to-day management of specified key authors/titles and major brands
• Understand the importance of social media and digital activity as part of campaigns, working with the internal digital teams to drive children’s priorities and to create holistic campaign strategies across online/social and print.
• Support a culture of collaboration, working closely with the publicity, sales and editorial teams, feeding ideas into the wider company and being a great spokesperson for the children’s marketing team.
• Work with the Group Director to set budgets and review spends
• Key point of contact for the Children’s sales team (UK/Export/Group offices) for key title planning across all retail channels, organising meetings as appropriate and regularly reviewing plans.

Knowledge, skills and experience
• At least four years’ experience in marketing and some line management experience
• Knowledge of working on major Children’s brands, with a proven track record in leading creative and effective Children’s marketing campaigns
• An in-depth understanding of the Children’s retail marketplace
• Experience of working with internal and external stakeholders including authors, editors, freelancer designers/animators, digital agencies
• Experience of working successfully with third parties on innovative marketing partnerships and initiatives
• Excellent trade and children’s book community contacts
• Excellent knowledge of current marketing best practice across on/offline platforms
• Broad market awareness within publishing and within marketing
• Up-to-date knowledge of best practises of advertising and industry developments
• Strong interpersonal and organisational skills
• A proven track record in running campaigns and building brands

Additional information
This is a full-time permanent position offering a competitive salary. This role will be based at our beautiful offices in Bedford Square, London with flexibility to work partly at the office and partly at home however, as all Bloomsbury employees are currently working from home, this role will be based from home until our offices reopen.
As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers competitive benefits, generous staff discounts and flexible working arrangements.
Please apply with a CV and covering letter detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 5 May 2021.
Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.