Senior publicity manager (12 month FTC)

Closing date: 21st February 2025

Salary: £40,000+ dependent on experience (+bonus +benefits)

Location: The role will be based at our London office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Are you creative and proactive? Do you love working on a broad range of fiction and non-fiction? Can you create stand-out PR campaigns to capture attention and drive sales?

Headline Publishing Group is looking for an experienced PR professional with experience working on a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction titles – from debuts to brands and from celebrity to smart thinking - to join our award-winning Publicity team as Senior Publicity Manager to cover a period of parental leave, beginning in May 2025. 

In this role you will be responsible for leading on and executing top tier PR campaigns for both fiction and non-fiction across a wide range of imprints.  Alongside demonstratable PR experience, the ideal candidate will be extremely efficient, have a broad range of contacts across the media and events, and bring initiative, creativity, and passion to the role. The ability to multi-task, work calmly under pressure and be a strong team player are also vital. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced publicist ready for a new challenge.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside a multi-disciplined, award-winning team responsible for a wide variety of publishing. You’d be working in a creative and dynamic environment, utilising a wide variety of essential publicity skills to reach the widest possible readership.

Headline 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.

Who we are looking for

• A dynamic Senior Publicity Manager who will be responsible for leading and implementing sales-driving and profile-building publicity campaigns, fully integrating all aspects of the media and incorporating events to positively raise the profile and awareness of the author and book.
• You will have great knowledge of the market, for both fiction and non-fiction publishing, a sound commercial sense and an understanding of different audiences.
• You will be highly organised, adaptable, a strategic thinker and be able to think creatively and confidently when planning campaigns.
• You’ll be required to confidently present plans to colleagues in-house and externally to authors and agents, pitch for new business, regularly updating key stakeholders on progress, as well as offering exceptional author care and maintaining excellent relationships with authors and agents.
• You will communicate and collaborate effectively with internal departments, including sales and marketing, editorial, rights and international colleagues.
• You will play a key role in the acquisition of new books, providing feedback on the PR potential, contributing to and attending pitches to acquire new talent. 

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
• 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

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 for interview, please let us know.

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

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.