Marketing operations executive

Salary: £29,000 – £32,000 pa

Location: The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, WC1B 3DP or our Oxford office Kemp House, OX2 9PH, 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: Wednesdays and Thursdays (in London) or Mondays and Thursdays (if Oxford).

Help ensure the smooth delivery of global marketing operations supporting a wide-ranging publishing portfolio across UK, US and international markets.

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.

Join Bloomsbury’s Academic & Professional (A&P) Marketing & Publicity team in a key global support role that helps deliver impactful marketing activity over a wide-ranging publishing portfolio. Working across the A&P division, this role contributes to the promotion of our award-winning books programme in the UK, US and international markets.

You will collaborate with a large and dynamic global team, including subject and audience marketers, publicity, digital marketing specialists, conferences teams, and author relations, as well as liaising with editors and authors. Reporting into the Head of Digital Marketing & Operations, this role plays a vital part in ensuring the smooth delivery of marketing operations, improving efficiencies, and supporting the team to achieve its collective goals.

The role

• Manage monthly outreach to journal review editors to promote new titles available
• Oversee the awards process, including nominations and submissions for A&P titles
• Coordinate the production of quarterly catalogues and digital subject catalogues with the Design team
• Maintain and update departmental workflows and Wiki resources
• Work with the Head of Digital Marketing & Operations to identify and implement opportunities for streamlining
• Generate reports and provide data support as required
• Support the delivery of marketing campaigns to a brief, including email deployment and creation of marketing, publicity and sales collateral such as flyers and stocklists
• Provide flexible, ad hoc support to the global Academic & Professional marketing team as needed

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential:

• Relevant experience in academic books marketing
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Outstanding attention to detail
• Ability to work methodically and manage multiple priorities effectively
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word
• Experience working with administrative systems and/or databases
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across global teams
• A can-do attitude and enthusiasm for supporting team members

Desirable:

• Familiarity with email service providers (ESP) and/or content management systems (CMS)

Additional information

The role is a full-time and permanent position.

This position is eligible for Bloomsbury’s Rental Deposit Loan Scheme. To assist candidates who want to start and to establish a career in publishing, Bloomsbury offers an interest-free rental deposit to support securing somewhere to live. The rental deposit loan can be up to £3,000 and will be paid back over 2 years.

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 Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

Working Pattern

• Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

• 25 days holiday
• 3.5 days Christmas company holiday

Other Benefits

• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Work Anywhere Fortnight - For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Learning & Development - Free access to LinkedIn Learning, BookMachine Campus, InRehearsal & IPG Skills Hub
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Ride to Work Scheme
• Peppy Health App
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• EAP Advice and Counselling

Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

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 in the UK

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.