Junior marketing designer, consumer marketing & publicity 

Closing date: 25th August 2025

Salary: £28,000

Contract: This is a full-time, permanent position.

Reporting to: This role reports to the marketing designer manager.

Design a range of print and digital marketing materials, helping to create striking and eye-catching campaigns to drive our books into the hands of readers around the world.

We are looking for a junior marketing designer to join our in-house design team to create impactful and striking consumer-facing campaigns in conjunction with our marketing teams based in the UK and Australia. You’ll be supporting the design team on essential administration, as well as designing marketing materials for our award-winning titles, from proof covers to print ads and social media assets.

Global bestselling brands include Harry Potter, Sarah J. Maas, Tom Kerridge and Wisden alongside award-winning writers and illustrators such as Gillian Anderson, Chris Riddell, Kamila Shamsie, Madeline Miller, Jessie Burton and George Saunders.

Responsibilities

• Assisting the marketing design manager and design team with design projects and administrative support to ensure the smooth day-today running of the team.
• Design of print materials, including proof covers, activity packs, point-of-sale items and more
• Design of digital marketing materials, including social media assets, online advertising banners and animated gifs, sales materials and more
• Translating previous campaigns into new marketing material
• Supplying the marketing teams with marketing materials and open files on request

You will learn to interpret a marketing brief, collaborate with marketers and bring your creative ideas to a range of campaigns – from literary fiction to a broad range of non-fiction and children’s books. You’ll be highly organised, efficient, self-motivated, a good communicator and willing to learn.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

• A portfolio that demonstrates creative flair, versatility, technical skills
• Solid understanding of the Mac OS
• Solid understanding of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign and Photoshop)
• Experience preparing print-ready assets

Desirable

• Experience with Adobe After Effects
• Experience with Adobe Premiere Pro

Additional information

The role is based at our London office (50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP) on a hybrid working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office-based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are Monday and Tuesday.

This position is eligible for Bloomsbury’s Rental Deposit Loan Scheme. To assist candidates who want to start and to establish a career in publishing, Bloomsbury offers an interest-free rental deposit to support securing somewhere to live. The rental deposit loan can be up to £3,000 and will be paid back over 2 years.

To apply

Please apply with a CV, covering letter and portfolio (link in your covering letter) addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the 'Apply' button, detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 Monday 25th of August 2025.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required.

The Book Trade Charity provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: http://booktradeentrysupport.org

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