Digital marketing manager (12 month FTC)

Closing date for applications: 22 September 2025

Salary: £32,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)

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

Bring your digital marketing experience to a fast-paced publishing division behind bestselling books, where you'll oversee digital strategy while leading exciting and impactful marketing campaigns.

The John Murray Group, which encompasses John Murray Press, Quercus and John Murray Specialist, is one of the fastest growing and most profitable divisions of Hachette UK, with imprints that encompass a range of bestselling, pioneering and prize-winning publishing. From exciting debuts, crime fiction and celebrity-led titles, to lifestyle, memoir, history and thought-provoking non-fiction, we are home to bestselling fiction brands such as Mick Herron, Elly Griffiths and Beth O'Leary and the biggest names in non-fiction including David Attenborough, Trevor Noah and Miriam Margolyes. We pride ourselves on being entrepreneurial, curious, and excited about discovering and nurturing new voices that can shape and shake our world. John Murray Press 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.


What you'll be doing

Reporting to the senior marketing manager for Literary & Non-Fiction publishing, the successful candidate will oversee the digital strategy for John Murray and Quercus, including our PPC and Amazon advertising, alongside your own allocation of exciting book marketing campaigns.

You’ll join the division at a hugely exciting time for the John Murray Group, creating impactful campaigns across an exciting list of non-fiction books, working with authors to harness their online platforms for book sales. You’ll be responsible for running successful and strategic digital campaigns for our biggest brands, playing a leading role in our organic social media and eBook promotion strategies, and deliver multi-platform seasonal campaigns for Summer Reading and Christmas Gifting.


Who we are looking for

• You’ll succeed in this role if you are excited about the idea of connecting books with readers and have excellent experience in digital marketing.
• You’ll be an expert in digital advertising across all major platforms including Amazon, Google, Meta, Twitter and TikTok, and have a strategic and analytical mindset.
• You’ll be a strong relationship builder, able to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, and a confident communicator over email and in person.
• You might be described as data-obsessed!
• We welcome applications from people within the publishing industry, but this is by no means essential. Most importantly, you will have a passion for the books you’ll be working on and proven experience in digital marketing.

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 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.

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