Marketing assistant

Closing date for applications: 6th December 2024

Salary range: £26,000 - £27,000 per annum, depending on experience 

Working pattern: Hybrid – minimum of two days per week in the office; up to three days per week working from home

Reports to: Deputy Marketing Director 

Department: Adult Trade 

Location: HYLO, 5th Floor, 103-105 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8LZ

Are you a highly organised book lover with an interest in marketing and an eye for design?

We are looking for a marketing assistant to join our newly formed adult trade division. Bonnier Books UK is the home to incredible non-fiction from the likes of Jimmy Anderson, Boy George and Katie Price to market leading fiction including Heather Morris, Wilbur Smith and Stacey Halls, and many more best-selling authors. We publish across genre from crime and thriller to fantasy, we love to connect with different reading communities.

This role is crucial to supporting our market-leading marketing team. You’ll provide essential admin support that helps the team run smoothly, assist with social media management and content creation, contribute to marketing campaigns, and help create marketing material including digital assets and point of sale material and presentations. You’ll learn a lot, quickly, with a team that works across a large number of books at pace. We love what we do, and we’re looking for somebody that brings enthusiasm, ability and ambition.

For the right candidate this is a rare opportunity to join a growing team within a business that rewards fast thinking and innovation. We’re proud of our track record for developing our people, and you’ll receive training and guidance to help you forge your own path in the publishing industry. If you’re a self-starter with a passion for storytelling, outstanding organisational skills, and a genuine interest in marketing and design, then we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• General admin such as processing invoices and expenses, running and updating schedules, assisting with mailings, updating databases and documents, assisting the Deputy Marketing Director and team with calendar/meeting management and managing the marketing post room area 
• Basic content creation including creating social media marketing assets (graphics and video), creating retail marketing material including Powerpoint presentations 
• Social media scheduling and creating, scheduling email marketing and helping build website pages
• Assisting with managing social channels including granting admin permissions, content planning, scheduling, monitoring and responding to messages 
• Influencer research and outreach including address collection 
• Helping with events, launches and author shoots as required

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Exceptionally well-organised, professional and proactive
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to take initiative and a positive, can-do attitude
• Good level of MS Office knowledge, including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook (or other email software)
• Some content creation skills, including design, copywriting and video creation/editing

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries. 

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