Senior Marketing Manager – 12 month contract

Hachette Children's Group

CLOSING DATE: 19/08/2019

CONTACT: HR Team
[email protected]
020 3122 6000

Who we are and what we do

Hachette Children’s Group, a division of Hachette UK, publishes a huge range of books for children and young people from the ages of 0 to 18. Our stable of author and illustrator talent includes Cressida Cowell, Leigh Bardugo, Patrice Lawrence, Juno Dawson, Francesca Simon, Dermot O’Leary, Onjali Q. Raúf, Matthew Syed, Bryony Gordon, Giles Andrae, Lauren Child, Kes Gray and Jim Field, to name just a few. We are also the owner of Enid Blyton Entertainment.

The award-winning Hachette Children’s Group Marketing Team is responsible for delivering creative, strategic, results-driven campaigns for our books, across new launches and established brands. 

What you’ll be doing

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Marketing Manager to join the Hachette Children’s Group Marketing team for one year, in a maternity cover role, focussing on middle grade, teen and YA publishing.

Reporting to the Group Marketing and Communications Director, you’ll be responsible for planning, presenting and implementing your own campaigns and overseeing the campaigns of a team of three, to deliver industry leading marketing for Hachette Children’s Groups 8+ fiction and non-fiction titles and authors and illustrators, through all channels and markets.

Who we’re looking for

The successful candidate will be an experienced strategic marketer with solid management experience and a broad understanding of a wide marketing mix for both B2B and B2C channels. Creative and self-motivated, you will have a strong track record of developing and implementing marketing campaigns. You’ll be confident delivering activity across the full marketing mix, always drawing upon insight to inform your plans.

This is a broad and varied role, and we are looking for somebody who will embrace working collaboratively with teams across the organisation.

We need you to bring a positive, can-do approach and build strong relationships with your direct reports, immediate team, other departments, as well as external agencies.

We’re looking for someone highly motivated, resourceful, adaptable and creative, who will bring new ideas, a passion for children’s publishing and knowledge of the children’s book market.

What we offer

You will be joining a creative and dynamic environment within a highly collaborative team and has the opportunity to work on some of the best middle-grade teen and YA fiction and non-fiction authors and illustrators in the market. This role is based in our London office. 

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 an interview, please let us know.

Salary: £38-40k depending on experience

To apply: click here

Marketing & Publicity Assistant

Bloomsbury Publishing

CLOSING DATE: 24/07/2019

CONTACT: Bloomsbury Publishing
[email protected]
+44(0)20 7631 5600

Marketing and Publicity Assistant,

Bloomsbury Education

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Publishing is looking for a Marketing and Publicity Assistant to join the bright and innovative team working on education titles across Early Years, Primary and Secondary markets. This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, creative and organised individual with an interest in marketing to schools, teachers and professionals, and who is looking to start a career in publishing. Bloomsbury Education includes many popular and trusted brands and supports teachers and parents with titles for learning across the curriculum and reading for pleasure.

The role

• Assist the Senior Education Marketing Manager with overall strategy for the list.
• Manage the production of three education catalogue’s
• Manage campaigns with limited budget as well as support the marketing team on other campaigns
• Create flyers and other point of sale material for events and to support the sales team
• Design and create publicity material such as bookmarks, presenters, proofs and bookmarks.
• Maintain social media for the education list, in particular managing the Twitter and Facebook accounts
• Update the Education section of the Bloomsbury website
• Edit author blog content and manage the blog website
• Check and respond to requests on the general education marketing email
• Help with coordinating publisher presence at conferences and exhibitions throughout the year
• Assist with the organisation, travel and accommodation of author events and teacher meetings
• Attend school events, festivals, conferences and other author events as support to the education marketing team
• Produce press releases and co-ordinate mailings for all frontlist titles
• Compile minutes and agendas for regular marketing and publicity meetings
• Write and schedule monthly e-newsletters to early years, primary and secondary teachers, as well as international markets
• Maintain an up-to-date publishing schedule
• Work collaboratively with editorial, sales and digital teams, as well as the wider Children’s M&P teamSkills, knowledge and experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proactive, able to use your initiative
• Eye for detail
• Superb organisational skills
• Proven ability to prioritise workloads and meet deadlines
• Creative flair
• Ability to remain calm under pressure, be flexible and deal with the unexpected
• An interest in how the marketing and publicity process works within a publishing company is essential
• An interest in general education publishing would be beneficial

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, and salary expectations to:-

[email protected].

Please note in the subject line:  Marketing and Publicity Assistant, Education BM 2407

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 24^th July 2019

Senior Marketing Manager (FTC)

HarperCollins

CLOSING DATE: 31/07/2019

CONTACT: Matt Clacher
[email protected]
07971133926

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the marketing team within 4th Estate and William Collins to manage integrated and innovative campaigns as the Senior Marketing Manager (Maternity Cover FTC). The successful candidate will be a senior voice in the Marketing team, bringing their knowledge of the market and prior marketing experience to produce outstanding campaigns that will deliver consumer cut-through, drive sales across all formats and build upon the author’s profile.

4th Estate and William Collins is home some of world’s best loved novelists, from Hilary Mantel and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Jonathan Franzen and Jon McGregor, bestselling non-fiction from Max Hastings and Professor Brian Cox, an award-winning cookery list from Nigel Slater and Anna Jones and exciting new voices like Jia Tolentino, Amrou Al-Kadhi, Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke

4th Estate and William Collins is a division with HarperCollins UK, which is in turn is part of a global business within HarperCollins Worldwide and News Corp.

Please note this position is to start in October 2019.

Responsibilities

• Delivering strategic and creative campaigns for key releases and authors across the division.
• Developing innovative, creative and targeted marketing activity including all planning, briefing and delivery
• Striving for innovation across all channels to produce market leading campaigns that will create cut-through and deliver on sales targets
• Ensuring that delivery of all creative, media, and digital plans are on brief and in budget.
• Ensuring all marketing campaigns are implemented to optimum efficiency with demonstrable metrics
• Measuring and evaluating campaigns, share learnings and optimising for future activity
• Working alongside the consumer insight team to understand readerships and inform target audiences
• Working with brand and media partners to leverage reader interest and expand our consumer reach
• Working closely with Publicity, Sales and Editorial to ensure that all stakeholder needs are met
• Developing strong agency, media and blogger relationships to help maximise all communications opportunities and activity
• Working closely with the Marketing Director in finding innovative ways increasing profit within the divisions, through both front-list and back-list along with exploring new commercial opportunities

Key Skills/Experience

• Demonstrable experience working in a busy marketing department at a trade publisher
• Comfortable across all channels of the marketing mix
• Ability and excellent track record in generating great creative work with proven ROI
• Ability to amplify creative thinking across various media disciplines
• Excellent people skills and ability to work collaboratively
• Creativity essential
• Commercially astute
• Excellent negotiation and relationship skills.
• Excellent organisation skills.
• Excellent marketing skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Active interest in the latest marketing trends and campaigns from across the book industry as well as the wider entertainment and media sector
• Enjoys reading widely with an active interest in the publishing industry – particular interest literary fiction and non-fiction, history, science and nature writing encouraged.

Apply here: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/q2qcd0vlfw

1-2x Freelance Marketers

The Quarto Group

CLOSING DATE: 26/07/2019

CONTACT: Jessie Sullivan
[email protected]
02072849374

The Quarto Group are looking for a freelance marketer or marketers to take on a couple of Autumn projects for the UK team. The first project will be concentrating on Gardening titles across Quarto’s bestselling frontlist and backlist utilising the Christmas gifting period to ensure Quarto’s gardening list is front and centre. The second project will be concentrating on one of Quarto’s lead titles for Autumn with a focus on popular culture and art ensuring the title reaches both its wider, general audience and its niche target audience. These projects are primarily consumer-focused but may include some trade creative/design responsibilities.

If you’re interested in hearing more about these projects, please email Jessie Sullivan, Deputy Head of Adults Marketing at [email protected]

Creative and Communications Director, Ebury

Ebury

CLOSING DATE: 15/07/2019

CONTACT: na

How far can you take our story?

Ebury is the UK’s largest dedicated non-fiction publisher, with authors ranging from Marie Kondo to Peter Crouch, Mary Berry to Tan France. We are looking for an innovative Creative and Communications Director to get even more of our amazing books into the hands of readers.

This is a new role at an exciting time of change and growth for us. You’ll design and lead our Comms and Creative strategy, across our four new publishing hubs, and grow our lists and brands through entrepreneurial thinking.

We’re looking for someone who can get our books to the widest possible audience and is always looking to drive demand through high-impact campaigns, across events, print, broadcast, online, audio and brand partnerships.

As part of the senior leadership team at Ebury, you’ll inspire and manage teams to deliver outstanding campaigns. You’ll be the voice of Ebury within Penguin Random House and externally, from your input on new book acquisitions and cover designs, to growth plans for our flagship authors.

Whether you have a background in publishing or not, it’s critical that you have a passion for books, a track record of standout campaigns, and that you always have an eye on the bigger picture.

If this sounds like you, apply with a CV and cover letter by 15th July.

Head of Campaigns, Ebury (Self Hub)

Ebury

CLOSING DATE: 15/07/2019

CONTACT: na

Do you take personal development personally? Wax lyrical about self-care?

A rare and exciting opportunity has come up for a Head of Campaigns to lead Ebury’s new Self hub. Spanning the iconic imprints Vermilion and Rider, the publishing ranges from psychology and parenting to mindfulness and spirituality, with authors including Marie Kondo, Brené Brown, Tim Ferriss and Edith Eger.

We’re looking for someone who can lead high-impact integrated campaigns – weaving publicity and marketing to drive demand. Across print, digital, broadcast, events and brand partnerships, you will know how to launch book with a splash and drive long-term reader demand.

You’ll have exceptional people skills. Authors, agents, media, influencers and more: you need to be adept at building relationships, as well as the arts of persuasion and negotiation. You’ll enjoy inspiring and developing your own team, as well as working closely alongside editors to creatively generate new books.

You’ll also need tenacity and flexibility. You’re someone who enjoys trying new things to reach an audience, quick to respond to current events and trends, and thrive on the challenge of high profile projects.

If your friends are ever offended by the number of personal development books you recommend them, then this one’s for you.

If this sounds like you, apply with a CV and cover letter by 15th July.

Apply online here

Marketing Manager, Ebury

Ebury

CLOSING DATE: 15/07/2019

CONTACT: na

Can your campaigns pack a punch?

We are looking for a Marketing Manager to join Ebury, the UK’s largest dedicated non-fiction publisher.

If you have a track record of planning and implementing strategic campaigns and reaching and engaging an audience in new and interesting ways, we want to hear from you.

You’ll lead on campaigns for high profile authors and household names and represent the team in author pitches and during the book acquisition process.

To be outstanding in this role, you’ll need great communication skills, an enthusiasm for trying new things and a genuine interest in developments in the marketing world.

Previous line management experience isn’t necessary, but you’ll be keen to manage and develop a junior team member, and understand the importance of knowledge sharing.

With such a range of books on Ebury’s list, you’ll focus on one of our audience-led hubs:

Self

Covering the established imprints Vermillion and Rider, our development and self-care books include authors such as Marie Kondo, Brené Brown, Tim Ferriss and Edith Eger.

Lifestyle/BBC

As well as the bulk of the BBC Books list and the trend-led Pop Press, this hub has a wide range of design-led books and food brands such as Yotam Ottolenghi, Mary Berry and Rick Stein.

Let us know your hub preference in your cover letter and attach with your CV by 15^th July.

Apply online here

Senior Marketing Officer, Ebury

Ebury

CLOSING DATE: 15/07/2019

CONTACT: na

Are your campaigns known for their creativity and innovation?

We are looking for a Senior Marketing Officer to join Ebury, the UK’s largest dedicated non-fiction publisher.

With some campaigns under your belt already, you’ll be planning and implementing effective campaigns that cut through the noise and generate awareness and sales.

Providing guidance and problem-solving for authors, you’ll work closely with teams in editorial, sales, production and design to manage your campaigns, as well as tie in with major PRH and Ebury brand campaigns.

You’ll need the usual things – good organisation, strong copywriting skills, an artistic eye – but more importantly, you’ll be both proactive and reactive. You’ll be comfortable making informed judgements because you’ve done your research and have strong marketing knowledge, and adaptable when the unexpected happens.

With such a range of books on Ebury’s list, you’ll focus on one of our audience-led hubs:

Self

Covering the established imprints Vermillion and Rider, our development and self-care books include authors such as Marie Kondo, Brené Brown, Tim Ferriss and Edith Eger.

Lifestyle/BBC

As well as the bulk of the BBC Books list and the trend-led Pop Press, this hub has a wide range of design-led books and food brands such as Yotam Ottolenghi, Mary Berry and Rick Stein.

Let us know your hub preference in your cover letter and attach with your CV by 15^th July.

Apply online here

Marketing Officer, Ebury

Ebury

CLOSING DATE: 15/07/2019

CONTACT: na

Can you create a buzz? Generate sales?

We are looking for a Marketing Officer to join Ebury, the UK’s largest dedicated non-fiction publisher.

You’ll need a good understanding of how to run a campaign. As well as supporting the wider team, you’ll have your own campaigns to plan and implement, from nailing down the right audience to writing pitches to creating marketing materials and planning partnerships with brands.

To do that, you’ll need to be a team player, working closely with internal teams such as editorial, design, production and sales. You’ll also have a flair for writing creative copy, good organisation and comfortable talking to a range of people.

If you’re outward looking, interested in what’s happening in the market and industry and then innovative about making that translate into sales, we want to hear from you.

With such a range of books on Ebury’s list, you’ll focus on one of our audience-led hubs:

Self

Covering the established imprints Vermillion and Rider, our development and self-care books include authors such as Marie Kondo, Brené Brown, Tim Ferriss and Edith Eger.

Lifestyle/BBC

As well as the bulk of the BBC Books list and the trend-led Pop Press, this hub has a wide range of design-led books and food brands such as Yotam Ottolenghi, Mary Berry and Rick Stein.

Let us know your hub preference in your cover letter and attach with your CV by 15^th July.

Apply online here

Campaigns Assistant, Ebury

Ebury

CLOSING DATE: 8 July 2019

CONTACT: na
na

Are you a people person? Can you keep things running smoothly?

Ebury is the UK’s largest dedicated non-fiction publisher, home to authors ranging from Yotam Ottolenghi to Caitlin Moran to Peter Crouch.

We’re looking for a super organised Campaigns Assistant to support our fast-moving publicity and marketing team. You’ll mainly be based within our Smart hub, which publishes serious non-fiction in areas like history, science, business, memoir and big ideas books.

You’ll ensure that the team has everything they need to engage readers and drive sales, from preparing for meetings and travel arrangements, diary management, processing invoices, updating databases that feed through to our suppliers and organising mailouts.

In short, you’ll be the point person for the team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to get your feet wet in a busy campaigns team. You’ll learn how to deal with press enquiries, run social media, and write promotional materials. You’ll build your network and work collaboratively with internal teams such as production, editorial, sales and rights, as well as advertising agencies, influencers and the media.

You’ll enjoy engaging in the world around you, whether that’s pop culture or news, you’ll have a meticulous eye for detail, and you’ll thrive on talking with a huge range of people.

You need to have a creative eye, both for visual design and copywriting, and any experience using design software would be a bonus.

If that sounds like you, please apply with a CV and covering letter by 8th July

Salary: £23,000

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

Apply online here