Closing date for applications: 20 November 2025
Salary: £27,000 (+bonus +benefits)
Location: London
Contract: Permanent
This is an exciting entry-level opportunity to join Hachette Children's Group's multi-award-winning marketing team.
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
The Marketing Assistant will provide day-to-day administrative assistance, supporting the smooth and effective of the marketing team. You will also have the chance to support various members of the team on campaign delivery for high-profile titles and brands - gaining a breadth of experience across the full marketing mix - as well as managing a select number of your own marketing campaigns.
We offer a creative environment within an enthusiastic and collaborative team. There is significant opportunity for professional development within the role and, as part of Hachette, you will benefit from an extensive training library and development schemes such as mentoring.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for a proactive, organised, enthusiastic and creative individual with a genuine passion for children's books and the desire to learn and grow. Prior experience is not required, but we will expect to see evidence of your ability to juggle multiple priorities with initiative and efficiency, an understanding of audience and the children's book market, familiarity with key digital platforms and strong written and verbal communication skills.
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)
- Private medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- 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 AgeWise, Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
- Season ticket loans
- And much more!
The role will be based at our London office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.
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 need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.
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
Please include in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.
Level of experience
- Entry