Digital content executive, Penguin Random House Children's (12-month fixed-term)

Salary: Up to £32,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus benefits.

Do you have experience in facilitating and managing content in the children’s landscape? Are you interested in engaging children and families with authentic and targeted content? Do you always have a keen eye for detail, and a passion for the power of social platforms?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Digital Content Executive for Ladybird & Puffin to join the Penguin Random House Children’s Marketing team on a 12-month fixed term basis. If you have audience-first experience and are looking for a new challenge, this could be the role for you!

About the team

Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we strive for our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated. We want to work with a wide range of talent as we find new ways to tell our stories. You don’t have to come from a publishing background or have a degree to be considered - we want to hear from different voices and see fresh perspectives.

Our consumer brands, Ladybird & Puffin, are some of the strongest, global brands in the publishing world. Ladybird makes growing up the best story ever. Puffin creates stories that spark imagination in children across the world. Our list includes Peppa Pig and Percy Jackson, Ten Minutes to Bed and Tom Fletcher, Bluey and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Stories for every child, everywhere.

The role

Working closely with the Brand Marketing Managers for Ladybird and Puffin, as well as the Heads of Marketing for Preschool and Primary, you will creatively showcase the breadth of our range of books, and ultimately drive sales.

Key responsibilities

• Facilitating a creative and engaging pipeline of content across all key online channels
• Channel management across the Ladybird and Puffin socials including content creation, copy-writing, scheduling and posting
• Analytics to include reporting content performance and recommendations to the wider Brand, Marketing & PR team and Children’s Division, and advising on best practice

What you’ll bring

Essential criteria:

• Passion for content and how it can drive community engagement and lead to strong sales
• Good audience-engagement experience through social channel management
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• Effective time and project management skills, including working across multiple projects
• Broad market awareness within children’s media, brand and within marketing

Application instructions

Please apply with your CV and cover letter outlining why you are the right candidate for the role by 11:59pm on Tuesday 25th February. As part of your letter, please include an answer to the following question: Tell us about a social media campaign you’ve seen recently that you’ve been impressed with and why (no more than 200 words).

Please ensure you include a cover letter, as it is a crucial part of our assessment process. The cover letter offers an opportunity to show how your experience and interests align with the role requirements. Typically, we expect the cover letter to be no more than one or two pages in length.

Please note we are looking for someone to join the team as soon as possible, but we are also happy to accommodate a reasonable notice period for the right candidate.

We anticipate that interviews will start taking place w/c 10th March. We are happy to discuss the interview stages further with you throughout the recruitment process.

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.