Senior marketing manager (12 month FTC)

Salary: £41,000 - £45,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)

Location: The role will 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 communications team delivering creative, sales-driving campaigns for a wide-ranging list of fiction, non-fiction and gift publishing.

The Orion Publishing Group, a division of Hachette UK, publishes commercial, award-winning fiction, non-fiction and gift titles, and is home to bestselling authors and brands including Ian Rankin, Adam Kay, Michael Connelly, Emily English, Si King, Brandon Sanderson, Veronica Henry, Philippe Sands, Candice Carty-Williams, Joe Abercrombie and Florence Knapp.

At Orion, we believe every story matters. Open, agile, passionate and innovative, our mission is to bring the best publishing to the greatest variety of people. Ambitious to continually raise the bar, we believe good stories can come from anywhere and we encourage and value contributions from all our staff.

A Publisher of the Year winner at the British Book Awards, our multi-award-winning and collaborative Communications team has a proud track record of delivering high-impact, creative, sales-driving campaigns that bring our books and gifts to the widest possible audience.

What you'll be doing

This is an exciting opportunity to join Orion’s award-winning and dynamic Communications team, working across a varied list of fiction, non-fiction and gift publishing. As an experienced, confident and creative senior campaigner, you will play a key role in delivering best-in-class, consumer-focused marketing campaigns and will work with a wide range of high-profile authors and brands.

• Leading the development and delivery of standout marketing campaigns from acquisition through publication and beyond, bringing Orion’s books to life and driving sales
• Creating bold, insight-led campaign strategies with clear positioning, audience targeting and measurable outcomes
• Overseeing digital marketing strategy and execution across paid and organic channels, optimising performance through data and analytics
• Working closely with Editorial, Publicity and Sales teams to ensure campaigns are strategically aligned
• Driving forward the Gollancz imprint community growth strategy alongside a junior team member
• Building strong relationships with authors, agents, retailers and external partners to maximise reach and impact
• Identifying opportunities to grow readerships, build brand equity and deepen direct-to-consumer engagement
• Leading key launches and major brand campaigns, contributing to the overall success of the Orion list
• Managing multiple projects and budgets simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

Who we are looking for

We are looking for someone with demonstrable experience leading creative and effective marketing campaigns. You will enjoy working as part of a creative and supportive team and relish the opportunity to flex your creative muscles – always with an eye on our commercial goals. Our team plays a key role at every stage of our books’ and gifts’ journey, from acquisition to publication and beyond. You will bring excellent market knowledge across a range of genres; experience working on commercial fiction and/or SFF is a bonus, but not essential.

You will be experienced across all aspects of marketing and adept at working collaboratively with publicity, sales and editorial teams to craft pitch-perfect strategies that place the consumer at the heart of every campaign. Thoughtful planning, excellent budget management and timely, confident execution will be hallmarks of your work.You will also be adept in all aspects of stakeholder management and experienced in working across large teams, demonstrating excellent relationship-building, communication and presentation skills.

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)
• 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
• An active range of staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including AgeWise, Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing, Women in Techand religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!

Our commitment

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.

We want everyone to have the opportunity to perform at their best during our recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, you can let us know at the ‘Reasonable Adjustments’ section of your application. We’ll make sure you’re supported throughout the process.

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

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.