Children’s marketing manager

Closing date for applications: Sunday 1st March 2026

Salary: £36,000

Location: London

Reporting to: Deputy Marketing Manager

If you’re passionate about connecting brilliant children’s books with the right audiences, this campaigns role offers the perfect platform to grow your marketing career.

Faber is a leading independent literary publisher. We publish a diverse range of high-profile authors such as Moira Buffini, Emma Carroll, Alwyn Hamilton, Kieran Larwood, Jason Reynolds, and Lauren St John, and we have a backlist containing the works of T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, and Sylvia Plath, among many others. Faber’s Children's list spans picture books to YA crossover, through gift, graphic novels and non-fiction. We give teachers and educators the books they need to nurture, support and inspire children to become the great minds of the future. Faber is also a supplier of sales and distribution services to independent publishers and has a market-leading creative writing school.

What you will be doing

• Planning and implementing marketing campaigns for the Children’s list, working closely with the Children’s Publicist and the Children's Communications Assistant to create coordinated, holistic and sales-driving campaigns
• Providing marketing feedback at all stages of the publishing process including acquisition, covers, and positioning
• Building relationships with authors, illustrators and agents, including campaign meetings and pitch meetings for acquisitions
• Producing proofs, presenters, and samplers for trade sell-in
• Managing the Children’s campaign budgets
• Digital strategy for Faber’s Children’s list social media channels, and working closely with the Children’s Communications Assistant who runs them
• Working closely with the Children’s Publicist to plan and execute exceptional events

Who we’re looking for

The ideal candidate will be a confident and creative campaigns marketer looking to contribute meaningfully to building the Children’s list both within the trade and to consumers. This is a role for somebody who can brief beautiful artwork and stand out copy, who can put digital marketing at the heart of our campaigns. You will have a brilliant understanding of the Children’s market, and how to get retailers excited about our books. You’ll help us reach readers from ages 2 – 18, through picture books up to Young Adult fiction.

You will be confident at dealing with a variety of people in a professional and engaging manner, paired with a proactive attitude. You will have strong verbal and written skills, enjoy working as part of a team, be a quick learner when introduced to new systems, and have an ability to write compelling and grammatically correct copy with strong attention to detail.

If the above sounds like you, then we would love to receive your application.

This is a permanent, full-time position based in our London office in Farringdon. We offer a hybrid working model, with three days a week in the office. Faber has a staff of just over 140, based across our offices in Hatton Garden (London) and Harlow. We want all our staff to have the best possible, most positive and enjoyable experience while working at Faber.

Our benefits include:

• Access to Faber titles, discounted Independent Alliance titles
• Minimum of 28 days’ holiday per year
• Five days per year for volunteering work of your choice
• Full subscription to the Headspace meditation app
• Season-ticket loans
• Cycle-to-work vouchers
• Subsidised eye tests
• Generous pension scheme
• Life assurance and income protection insurance
• Access to online GP and advisory services

We welcome applications from any individual regardless of ethnic origin, gender, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation or age. All applications will be considered on merit. Please note that all personal information which we process in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our Data Protection Privacy Notice at https://www.faber.co.uk/privacy-policy/gdpr-data-protection-privacy-not…. Please read this notice before submitting your application.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.