Salary: £46,000 - £48,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)
Location: This role can be based at our London, Sheffield or Manchester with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week. We are open to a job share or part time.
Step into a senior PR role at one of the UK’s largest children’s publishers, delivering campaigns across a wide range of authors, illustrators and titles.
Hachette Children's Group is one of the UK's largest children's publishers, our mission is to make it easy for children and young people everywhere to access books and see themselves reflected. We aim to maximise our readers' life chances by inspiring a lifelong love of reading, publishing books for every stage of their journey to adulthood from Enid Blyton to Alice Oseman's Heartstopper.
Hachette Children's Group 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
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join the Hachette Children’s Group PR team at a senior level, in a management role for one direct report in a parental leave cover.
- You’ll be delivering all levels of front list and back list campaign, from household names and big brands to exciting debut authors and illustrators, focusing not only on top tier results, but on longer term goals, collaborating with colleagues across the company and multiple external stakeholders.
- You’ll be managing one direct report, and responsible for their development and performance, and lending your experience more generally for more junior colleagues.
- This role involves contribution to HCG’s PR team infrastructure and federal responsibilities, so you’ll also be working with a whole-list mindset, and representing HCG to trade and consumers.
Who we are looking for
We’re looking for someone who has expertise in managing multiple stakeholders, is passionate about the power of children’s books and who has a track record of creative, impactful campaigns, as well as excellent relationships in the media, events and influencer spaces. The team works across all age groups and genres, and the perfect person for the role would know how to gain visibility for all their books in a competitive market.
- You will be a strong team player who enjoys working collaboratively, confidently liaising with multiple colleagues, high-profile authors, illustrators, agents, licensors, journalists and booksellers.
- Your written and spoken communication skills should be exemplary.
- We are looking for someone who is keen to contribute to the wider team in both a managerial and federal way, contributing to the efficiency of team infrastructure and lending experience to more junior colleagues.
We are open to discussing part time and job share.
What we offer
Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:
- 28 annual leave days per year
- 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
- An active range of staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including AgeWise, Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing, Women in Techand religious networks
- Season ticket loans
- And much more!
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 require any reasonable adjustments to support you in the recruitment process, you will have an opportunity to make this request in your application.
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Level of experience
- Senior