Marketing & publicity assistant, Academic & Professional

Closing date: 20th March 2025

Salary: £27,000 per annum

Contract: The role is a full-time permanent position.


Kickstart your marketing and publicity career at this award-winning Academic publishing division.

We are looking for a Marketing & Publicity Assistant to join our award-winning and expanding Academic & Professional books Division. You will be working in a pivotal support role on marketing and publicity across our range of academic books, from textbooks and trade crossover titles to monographs and reference works.

With a number of initiatives to support diversity recently launched, such as our Widening Representation Programme and the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, it’s an exciting time to be joining the Division. Our brands include The Arden Shakespeare, British Film Institute, Methuen Drama, T&T Clark and 33 1/3, and our authors include Carol J. Adams, Mary Beard, Bertolt Brecht, Greg Doran, Martin Heidegger, Mary Midgley, Arthur Miller, Rachel Reeves, Nawal El Saadawi and Slavoj Žižek. This role reports in to a Senior Marketing Manager in the Academic Marketing team.


Responsibilities
Departmental (A&P):

• Daily assistance to 6 senior marketers and 1 senior publicist on tasks ranging from, but not limited to, leaflet creation, discount code generation, responding to media requests and arranging press copies to be sent out to journalists
• Ad hoc support for the wider Academic marketing team as requested
• Assistance with organisation of monthly sales/marketing meetings
• Maintenance of office supplies; organisation of marketing storerooms and book returns

Assistance to the team includes (* indicates support is less frequent/ad hoc):

• Day-to-day production of marketing and publicity materials, such as marketing flyers, press releases and posters
• Deployment of marketing and publicity emails, to a brief
• Updating the Bloomsbury website when required*
• Producing sales materials as required, such as stocklists, promotional materials and press updates*
• Assisting with review lists and arranging gratis copies as required
• Assisting with monthly review of AIs/marketing copy
• Assisting with production and online distribution of quarterly, biannual and annual catalogues for the Division, including the Key Titles catalogue
• Updates and contribution to blog and social media accounts as requested
• Producing reports on request*
• Book launch/event administration e.g. bookings, arranging couriers and iZettles, packing materials, recording sales post-event*

Knowledge, skills and experience

Essential

• Passionate about marketing and its role in academic publishing
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Outstanding attention to detail
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word
• A can-do attitude and enthusiasm for supporting team members

Desirable

• Relevant experience in publishing and/or marketing, ideally within an academic or professional environment (can include work experience or a specific qualification)
• Experience of working in an office environment
• Experience working with administrative systems and/or databases
• Knowledge of ESP and/or CMS software
• Knowledge of software in the Adobe Creative Cloud

Additional information

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 Wednesdays and Thursdays.

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) via the 'Apply' button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 on Thursday 20th March 2025.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

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.

The Book Trade Charity provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: http://booktradeentrysupport.org

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