Marketing executive

Closing date: 31st August 2025

Salary: £27,000 - £30,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)

Location: This permanent role can be based at our Sheffield, London, or Bristol office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days).

Join the marketing team at a hugely exciting time for the John Murray Group!

The John Murray Group which encompasses John Murray Press, Quercus and John Murray Specialist, is one of the fastest growing and most profitable divisions of Hachette UK, with imprints that encompass a range of bestselling, pioneering and prize-winning publishing. From exciting debuts, crime fiction and celebrity-led titles, to lifestyle, memoir, history and thought-provoking non-fiction, we are home to bestselling fiction brands such as Mick Herron, Elly Griffiths and Beth O'Leary and the biggest names in non-fiction including David Attenborough, Trevor Noah and Miriam Margolyes. We pride ourselves on being entrepreneurial, curious, and excited about discovering and nurturing new voices that can shape and shake our world.

What you'll be doing

• Reporting to a marketing manager, the successful candidate will play a key supporting role in delivering the very biggest campaigns across John Murray and Quercus – including Mick Herron and Beth O’Leary – as well as managing their own exciting campaigns and supporting on bookseller outreach and newsletter strategies.
• As a Marketing Executive for commercial fiction, you will oversee activity on the Quercus social media channels and NetGalley account, and take ownership of the division’s relationship with libraries.
• With support from your line manager, you’ll also deliver your own allocation of genre fiction campaigns, from spine-tingling crime to swoon-worthy romance.

Who we are looking for

• You’ll succeed in this role if you are excited about the idea of connecting books with readers and have a curious, proactive mindset.
• You’ll be digitally savvy, aware of social media trends, and a confident communicator.
• You’ll also be very well organised, able to juggle multiple competing deadlines.
• This role might suit a marketing assistant looking to take their next step in the publishing industry or a marketing executive looking to move into the publishing industry for the first time.
• A passion for the type of books you’ll be working on is essential.

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 Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and 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 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 state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.