Marketing executive, Children's Marketing & Publicity

Closing date: 20th September 2024

Salary: From £30,000 per annum

Reports to: This role reports to the marketing director, Brands and Gallery Kids / YA.

Simon & Schuster Children’s Books is looking for a bright, commercial and creative marketing executive to join one of the fastest-growing Children’s Publishers in the U.K.

Simon & Schuster, a global leader in general interest publishing, is dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats. Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognised writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honours and awards.

It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Adams Media, Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, and proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories.

Working across picture books, fiction and non-fiction this is an exciting opportunity for a driven and organised person who has a passion for children’s books and is ready for their next step in publishing.

Working as part of a team, the Children’s Marketing Executive will work with some of our biggest brands as well as on our newly launched platform-led Gallery Kids and YA list. They will implement their own marketing campaigns and work with other team members on with day to day campaign elements for Skandar, Supertato and other best-selling brands as well as platform led authors. 

This role’s aim is to implement high impact and commercially creative consumer campaigns to market specific titles, series and authors (online and offline). It would consist of assisting the Marketing Director and Senior Brand Manager across high profile platform led campaigns as well as year round backlist marketing activity for key brands. It would also include building relationships both internally and externally to communicate marketing materials and campaign elements effectively.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• The ideal candidate will have previously worked within a marketing role, with experience of children’s books, specifically Children’s trade.
• They will have the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• They will have confident verbal and written communication skills, and able to build relationships both internally and externally with ease.
• They will have a full grasp of online and offline marketing techniques and have fantastic copywriting and copyediting skills.

To apply 

• Please apply by attaching your CV and cover letter telling us about yourself, in your cover letter please include a short paragraph (no more than 300 words) discussing a recent marketing or brand campaign that caught your attention.

Simon & Schuster UK is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Candidates hired for this or any other posted Simon & Schuster UK role will be employees of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd subject to all policies, including the Workplace Privacy Notice, and eligible solely for the benefits plans thereof.

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