Marketing assistant

Salary: from £25,500 per annum

Ready to turn your creativity into campaigns that make books shine? Join Storm’s dynamic marketing team and help bring our stories to readers everywhere — from social media to the shelves.

In this dynamic position, you’ll support and learn all aspects of marketing, from keeping our website updated to creating social media content and running Facebook advertising. This role combines creative tasks that will challenge your thinking with meticulous attention to detail, ensuring our launch campaigns and advertising deliver exceptional results.

Key responsibilities

Social media

• Write and schedule social media content across all Storm social platforms for launch campaigns and back-list promotions.
• Engage with our Storm audiences across all platforms.
• Support Head of Digital Marketing in designing visual content for social media, including specifically for audiobooks.
• Create links that allow us to track performance.

Promotions

• Set up promotions at retailers, recording and analysing promotional results.
• Schedule advertising for title promotions.

Website and newsletter

• Create and schedule author newsletters to go out at key points throughout the marketing campaign for each title.
• Set up mailing lists, author pages, and newsletter sign-ups for new authors.
• Update the Storm website and Amazon content with upcoming titles.

Publicity

• Communicate with and expand our list of reviewers.
• Create advance review copies for our titles on selected platforms and encourage readers to leave early reviews.
• Support with content creation for and updating the Storm website and other relevant channels.

What we’re looking for

• Creative problem-solving abilities with a fresh perspective on marketing challenges.
• Analytical thinker who supports data-driven marketing.
• Fast learner with technical aptitude.
• Exceptional organisational abilities and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work independently while juggling multiple priorities.
• Advanced English writing abilities with strong grammar, style, and tone awareness.

What you’ll gain

A chance to join a forward-thinking publishing company and develop comprehensive digital marketing expertise. You’ll learn the full cycle of marketing each title goes through and help develop different opportunities to make our books soar. At Storm, we combine data and creativity to make our marketing as effective as possible, and we’re not afraid of trying new things. This position is the perfect entry point for aspiring marketing professionals who want to work in publishing, combining hands-on experience such as setting up advertising with insights into all aspects of marketing. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with authors and see the immediate impact of your marketing efforts on book sales and reader engagement.

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.