Senior Publicist – Adult Non-Fiction – Maternity Cover

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is looking for maternity cover for a highly skilled Publicist to work on our non-fiction publicity team across our award winning non-fiction list. This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional and experienced publicist to create major campaigns for bestselling authors across the non-fiction list. The Bloomsbury adult division has a wide range of distinguished non-fiction from biography and history to current affairs and popular science. Our acclaimed list of authors includes: William Dalrymple, Elizabeth Gilbert, David Kynaston, Kate Summerscale, Peter Frankopan, Patti Smith, Richard Ford, Erica Wagner and Reni Eddo-Lodge. The Senior Publicist reports into the Head of Adult Marketing and Publicity. This is a maternity cover role due to start in April 2017 and is anticipated to be for one year’s cover.

The role

• Creating exceptional, impactful and imaginative publicity campaigns across the Bloomsbury non-fiction list
• Creating and managing a strong relationship with editors across the non-fiction lists
• Driving publicity campaigns for key titles and Bloomsbury’s highest profile non-fiction authors
• Effectively communicating with internal and external stakeholders on all aspects of publicity and events on campaign.
• Management of campaign budgets
• Liaise with the global marketing and publicity teams to ensure that Bloomsbury titles are promoted globally whenever possible
• Attendance of editorial meetings, reading and feeding in the meeting and involvement in acquisition pitches
• Stay informed about new publicity insights, developments and opportunities
• Strengthen relationships with media (print, broadcast and online) and promote the Bloomsbury brand and authors
• Work creatively alongside event and festival organisers to bring Bloomsbury authors to the public in new and dynamic ways

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Minimum of 3 years publicity experience required
• Proven track record in managing all aspects of book publicity campaigns
• In-depth understanding of the non-fiction retail marketplace
• Understanding of how to build and lead effective campaigns and how integrated all aspects of a marketing and publicity campaign have to be
• Excellent communication, inter-personal and presentation skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• Creative flair

This role is based at Bloomsbury’s London office – 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP.

To apply, please send a CV, covering letter, current salary details and notice period to sally.coleman@bloomsbury.com. Sally Coleman, Human Resources Manager.

The closing date for this role is Wednesday 1st February 2017.