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Closing date for applications: 5th December 2025Salary: £30,000+ dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)Location: This role can be based at our London, Sheffield, and Edinburgh office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and home working (2 days) per week Ready to shape the future of book marketing? Join Hachette UK and turn insights into high-impact, data-led campaigns&nbsp;Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity. We're made up of 10 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Orion, which won Publisher of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards; Little, Brown; John Murray Press; Hodder &amp; Stoughton; Headline; Octopus, and Bookouture. They publish fiction and non-fiction in digital, audio and print format, from the world's best and most diverse authors, including Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O'Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling, Colson Whitehead, and Malala Yousafzai. Hachette Children's Group publishes a wide and vibrant range of books for children across all age ranges, while Hachette Learning is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools. What you'll be doingGroup marketing is a consumer-first, data-led team that delivers bold, high-impact campaigns by leveraging advanced analytics and expertise across digital platforms, media, and owned channels. We are focused on our mission to make it easy for consumers to discover our books and products, driving sales, maximising ROI, and harnessing the latest technology to unlock Hachette’s scale for ambitious and profitable growth. We are looking for an experienced programmatic executive to join our central group marketing team and help build out our programmatic advertising strategy and execution across Hachette UK.In this new role, you will be instrumental in shaping and scaling our programmatic advertising capabilities, planning and executing high-performance campaigns that drive book sales and deliver meaningful consumer engagement. Working closely with colleagues across our publishing divisions, commercial, sales, and insight teams, you will ensure our programmatic activity is innovative, effective, and integrated. Responsibilities<ul><li>Plan and manage end-to-end programmatic campaigns across display, video, native, and audio platforms</li><li>Optimise campaign performance through data analysis, segmentation, and A/B testing to achieve ROAS and engagement targets</li><li>Collaborate with media agencies and internal stakeholders to execute cross-channel strategies aligned with business priorities</li><li>Monitor performance and deliver clear, actionable reporting to stakeholders with insights and recommendations</li><li>Stay informed on emerging tools, platforms, and trends to continuously evolve our programmatic approach</li><li>Support the wider advertising team with paid social campaigns as required</li><li>Identifying, creating, and refining audience segments using first-party data</li><li>Providing actionable insights to the wider marketing, and sales teams, guiding future spending and creative development based on what the programmatic data reveals about consumer behaviour</li></ul> Who we are looking for<ul><li>Proven hands-on experience running programmatic campaigns via DSPs (e.g. DV360, The Trade Desk)</li><li>Strong analytical and optimisation skills with experience using analytics platforms (e.g. Google Analytics, GA4)</li><li>A clear understanding of attribution models, pixel tracking, and audience targeting</li><li>Excellent communication and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple campaigns and deadlines</li><li>Experience working in or with media agencies</li><li>Understanding of brand safety, viewability, and fraud prevention best practices</li><li>A consumer-first mindset with a strong commercial focus</li><li>A passion for programmatic innovation and data-driven marketing</li><li>A proactive, collaborative attitude with a willingness to share learnings and mentor others</li><li>The ability to think both strategically and tactically</li></ul> What we offerOur staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:<ul><li>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)</li><li>Private medical insurance</li><li>Dental insurance</li><li>Generous pension schemes</li><li>Rent deposit loans</li><li>2 community days per year</li><li>Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)</li><li>Retail discounts through Hachette rewards</li><li>Cycle to Work scheme</li><li>Eye care vouchers</li><li>Wide-ranging training library</li><li>Development programmes (including mentoring)</li><li>Up to 70% off book purchases</li><li>A charity bookshelf</li><li>12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including&nbsp;AgeWise, Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing&nbsp;and religious networks</li><li>Season ticket loans</li><li>And much more!</li></ul> Our commitmentThe 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&nbsp;<a href="http://www.booktradeentrysupport.org/" target="_blank">www.booktradeentrysupport.org</a> 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.Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

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