Publicity & Marketing Executive (Adult Trade)

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is looking for a highly skilled Publicity and Marketing Executive to work across our award winning non-fiction list within the Adult Trade Marketing and Publicity department. The Bloomsbury Adult Trade division has a wide range of distinguished non-fiction from biography to history to current affairs, Natural History and popular science. Our acclaimed list of authors includes William Dalrymple, A.C. Grayling, Frank Dikötter, David Kynaston, Kate Summerscale, Amy Chua, Bill Oddie, Stephen Moss, Alex Bellos and Simon Singh. The role reports into the Senior Publicity Manager of the Non-Fiction list.

The role

• Deliver creative, innovative and integrated publicity and marketing campaigns to maximize book sales and grow author brand awareness
• Deliver all campaigns and initiatives within agreed timelines and to budget
• Develop and maintain good relationships with the UK media
• Deliver exceptional author care throughout the life of a campaign and beyond
• Working with literary festivals and event organisers
• Effectively communicate publicity and marketing campaigns to all key stakeholders both internal and external
• Regularly communicate with Bloomsbury’s global offices
• Stay informed about new publicity and marketing insights, developments and opportunities
• Management of elements of Bloomsbury’s social media channels and brand websites including working with the Head of Social Media on innovative strategy and content creation
• Proactively identify and build partnerships for key titles, brands and authors

Knowledge, skills, experience

·         Publicity or marketing book (trade) experience
·         Experience of devising, building and managing publicity or marketing campaigns
·         Pitching to the media
·         Working directly with authors
·         Keen interest in social media
·         Managing multiple projects simultaneously
·         Highly creative
·         Strong verbal and written communication skills
·         Strong relationship building skills, internally and externally
·         Great attention to detail
·         Strong writing and copyediting skills

This role is based at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP.

To apply, please send a CV, covering letter, including current salary details to sally.coleman@bloomsbury.com Sally Coleman, HR Manager.

The closing date for this role is Sunday 16th March 2015.