Marketing manager, general - 12 month FTC

Manage audience-led campaigns for titles across a leading publisher's growing fiction and non-fiction commercial division.

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names.

We are looking for a creative and enthusiastic marketing manager on a fixed-term contract to manage industry-best, audience-led campaigns for titles across our growing fiction and non-fiction commercial division. You will be full of ideas and energy, ready to become a key part of the marketing team and driving high-impact marketing campaigns, community development and brand growth.

Responsibilities

• Creating, implementing, managing and analysing campaigns which use the full marketing mix to bring our titles to life for readers across all formats
• Contributing to conversations around acquisitions with strong up-to-date trend and market awareness, producing top-quality acquisition pitch materials and attending pitch meetings
• Clearly, confidently and effectively communicating strategy and updates with all key stakeholders, internal and external
• Driving and leading campaigns that you are responsible for, working closely alongside editorial, publicity and sales colleagues

Qualifications

• Strong marketing experience – ideally within commercial publishing
• Experience working and communicating with platform authors and their teams
• An excellent understanding of how to reach a range of audiences, across genres
• Creative vision, with excellent negotiation and persuasion skills to see that vision through and bring everyone on the journey

Additional information

The role is a full-time, fixed-term position for 12 months.

The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid-working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are Monday and Tuesday.

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role.

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Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required

Applicants must have the legal right to work

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

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