Senior marketing executive

Closing date for applications: 13 October 2025

Salary: £32,500 - £33,500 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)

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

Join an award-winning marketing team at the heart of children's publishing, where you'll deliver exciting campaigns and manage vibrant social media channels that captivate readers of all ages.

Hachette Children's Group (HCG) is one of the UK's largest children's publishers, our mission is to make it easy for children and young people everywhere to access books and see themselves reflected. We aim to maximise our readers' life chances by inspiring a lifelong love of reading, publishing books for every stage of their journey to adulthood from Enid Blyton to Alice Oseman's Heartstopper. Hachette Children's Group is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 11 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.


What you'll be doing

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented and creative senior marketing executive to join the Hachette Children’s Group multi-award-winning marketing team. This is a broad and hands-on campaign role covering the full marketing mix, including trade sell-in, on and offline advertising, content creation, partnerships, eCRM (electronic customer relationship management), POS (point of sale) and more. You will be responsible for planning and delivering a broad range of campaigns across our list, right through from picture books to YA (young adult) and including new launches, backlist and ongoing brands. You will manage the running of HCG’s social media channels, and will have specific responsibility for our education and library channels. We offer a creative environment within an enthusiastic and collaborative team. There is significant opportunity for professional development within the role and, as part of Hachette, you will benefit from an extensive training library and development schemes such as mentoring.


Who we are looking for

The successful candidate will have proven marketing experience, ideally within or relevant to the children’s book industry. Demonstrable creative ability is vital, married with commercial awareness and a firm focus on ROI (return on investment). You should be digitally savvy with a flair for harnessing social media and securing partnerships, an excellent copywriter, confident project manager and first-rate communicator. Resourceful and motivated, you will be buzzing with ideas and the knowledge of how to translate them into action, and juggle multiple projects with initiative and efficiency.


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

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

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 your interview, please let us know.

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