Deputy marketing director (12 month FTC)

Closing date for applications: 31 October 2025

Salary: £60,000 to £65,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)

Location: The role will be based at our London, Bristol, or Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week

Contract: 12 month fixed-term

Step into this leadership role where you'll shape brand strategy, oversee a creative team, and drive global marketing across fiction and non-fiction publishing.

With over 150 years of ground-breaking publishing from book lovers, original thinkers and market leaders, our unwavering mission has been to publish the most compelling voices in every genre. We continue to find new ground, new audiences and new voices with every title we publish. We are passionate readers and believe in the power of words to change lives. Hodder & Stoughton is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 10 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds. Our authors include global sensations Stephen King and John Grisham plus much-loved contemporary fiction and literary gems including David Nicholls, Jenny Colgan, Callie Hart, Booker-shortlisted author Andrew Miller, Sara Cox and many more. We are also home to high-profile non-fiction voices Ella Mills, Lucy Worsley, Liz Earle, Chris Hoy and Michael Morpurgo to name but a few.


What you'll be doing

The deputy marketing director will support the creative and marketing director in leading the marketing team day-to-day and devising and delivering the Hodder marketing strategy across our broad range of fiction and non-fiction. This role has a particular emphasis on brand strategy (Stephen King, Lucy Worsley, Louise Penny and many more), maximising the value of our backlist, and driving marketing excellence with all team members at every level, in all formats and all territories.

The role will put a keen emphasis upon evaluating the efficacy of marketing activity, placing consumer insight and data analysis at the heart of everything we do. The deputy marketing director will also have direct responsibility for all communications with international stakeholders, to ensure local knowledge is utilised to its full, building relationships with sister companies, international authors and global publishing teams.


Who we are looking for

We are looking for a creative, experienced and ambitious leader to lead the marketing team at an exciting time for Hodder & Stoughton. This is a fantastic opportunity for a head of marketing or equivalent to take the next step in their career, bringing their extensive line management experience, commercial expertise and creative spark to a great leadership role. The ideal candidate will be confident in leading a team, representing the needs and wants of the team and aligning these to the wider business needs, managing stakeholders at all levels of the business and they will bring energy and passion to everything they do.


What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
• Generous pension schemes
• Rent deposit loans
• 2 community days per year
• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Wide-ranging training library
• Development programmes (including mentoring)
• Up to 70% off book purchases
• A charity bookshelf
• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including AgeWise, Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!

Our commitment

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

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.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.