Marketing Executive

Bloomsbury Publishing

CLOSING DATE: 14/10/2019

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

Bloomsbury Publishing is looking for a highly skilled Marketing Executive with to work across our non-fiction special interest imprints.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, creative and ambitious individual to join the campaigns team working across the Special Interest division. Imprints include: Continuum, Green Tree, Sport, Business, Wildlife, Philip Wilson, Reeds 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 the world’s most famous sports book, The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Our acclaimed list of authors include: Douglas Murray, Diana Moran, Martin Dorey, Ray Mears and Christine Armstrong.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Create and implement marketing campaigns to drive sales and maximise profit
• Effectively communicate marketing campaigns to all key stakeholders both internal and external
• Regularly communicate with Bloomsbury’s global offices
• Stay informed about new marketing and publicity insights, developments and opportunities
• Proactively identify and build partnerships for key titles, brands and authors
• Manage the creation and distribution of the annual nautical and wildlife catalogue
• Manage and attend events and conferences relevant to the list.
• Manage content for the online communities, social media.
• Work closely with publicity colleagues to ensure marketing and publicity campaigns are fully integrated and get the best ROI

Skill, knowledge and experience

• Knowledge and understanding of the current marketing mix, including advertising, DM, publicity, catalogues, promotions and digital marketing
• Knowledge of community building, social media, email, online advertising
• Experience of book marketing
• The ability to multi-task and work on several different projects simultaneously
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Good copy-writing, proof-reading, design and project-management skills.
• Good time-management and people-management skills.

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 and a covering letter detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role to [email protected].

Marketing Manager – parental leave cover

Faber & Faber

CLOSING DATE: 23/09/2019

CONTACT: Katie Hall
[email protected]
02079273879

The Faber marketing department are looking to recruit a marketing manager in a parental leave cover role for a period of up to one year. Working on campaigns for authors such as Leïla Slimani, Andrew O’Hagan and Sebastian Barry, this is a role for a creative and capable marketer who is comfortable working on a diverse list of literary fiction, non-fiction and poetry. You’ll be experienced in running ambitious and original campaigns as well as presenting your ideas in author meetings and pitches, an effective copywriter who is easily able to communicate your design vision and somebody who can identify audiences and knows how best to reach them. Working in a busy team, this is a job for a resourceful marketer who can plan and implement innovative campaigns for our books and authors.

Key responsibilities:

• Managing campaigns for a range of adult fiction, non-fiction and poetry titles
• Producing trade sell-in materials such as proofs, presenters and point of sale
• Working with a media agency to plan effective advertising campaigns
• Collaborating closely with publicity and sales colleagues to deliver joined-up campaigns which drive sales
• Briefing and project-managing freelance designers to produce a wide range of content
• Managing campaign spend ensuring activity is delivered on time and within budget
• Writing copy for book proofs, advertising and print materials
• Planning and implementing social media advertising campaigns
• Presenting ideas and campaign plans internally and externally
• Other duties within the department as required

Please send a covering letter and CV to [email protected] by Monday 23 September. Early applicants may be contacted for interview prior to the closing date.

Head of Digital Marketing – Social Media (Maternity cover)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

CLOSING DATE: 18/09/2019

CONTACT: n/a
[email protected]
0207 631 5600

The Opportunity

Bloomsbury, a leading independent publisher in the UK, is looking for a maternity cover for the role of Head of Digital Marketing – Social Media. This multi-faceted, creative and exciting role covers the social media strategy for our key brands and lead title campaigns (including authors like J.K. Rowling, Sarah J. Maas, Tom Kerridge, Elizabeth Gilbert).

This is a global role (covering the UK, US, Australian and Indian offices), reporting to the Group Director, Consumer Marketing & Publicity.

The Role

Harry Potter:

• Responsible for the digital marketing strategy for Harry Potter books across UK, India, Australia and Canada, working closely with the Brand Manager and Head of Children’s Marketing and Publicity. This includes
• devising and implementing our social media campaigns, year-round
• commissioning, scripting, and producing short-form videos (working with freelance animators and video agencies)

Social media:

• Working alongside the Senior Digital Marketing Manager to oversee the global social media strategy (UK, US, India and Australia) for over 80 accounts across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
• Staying across the latest social media developments
• Educating and training staff and authors on social networks, including examples of best practice

Line management:

• Line management of Senior Digital Marketing Manager, and co-line management of Digital Marketing Executive (Children’s)

Skills, Knowledge, Experience

• Experience of delivering high-profile social media campaigns
• Experience of commissioning and producing short-form video
• Experience of working with internal and external stakeholders including authors, editors, freelancer designers/animators, digital agencies
• Up-to-date knowledge of best practises of social media advertising (mainly Facebook and Instagram) and industry developments
• Ability to be reactive, multitask and work on several different projects simultaneously, as well as work well under pressure
• Good organisational and project-planning skills

The role is a full-time maternity cover 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].

Marketing Manager – 12 month FTC

HarperFiction

CLOSING DATE: 14/08/2019

CONTACT: Fleur Clarke
[email protected]
0208 3074310

Team: Fiction

Role closes – 4:00pm, 14th Aug 2019 BST (Europe/London)

London

Purpose of the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the marketing team within HarperFiction to manage integrated and innovative campaigns across a range of the leading names in fiction. The successful candidate will be a senior voice in the Fiction 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.

We are home to bestselling authors such as Cecelia Ahern, George R.R. Martin, Dilly Court, J.R.R Tolkien, Agatha Christie and Karin Slaughter, amongst many other new and established names. HarperCollins UK in turn is part of a global business within HarperCollins Worldwide and News Corp.

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.
• 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.
• Supporting a culture of collaboration and integration, 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.

Experience:

• Good 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.
• Ability to amplify creative thinking across various media disciplines.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has an 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 in crime and thriller, literary and science fiction and fantasy fiction encouraged.
• Is a team-player, looking to share their learnings with the wider marketing team in order to foster a culture of shared learning.

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