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Marketing & Publicity Assistant (Adult Trade)

The opportunity
Bloomsbury Publishing is looking for an enthusiastic and meticulous Marketing and Publicity Assistant to join the creative and innovative Adult Marketing and Publicity team at Bloomsbury Publishing, working across the non-fiction, sport, nautical and yearbooks lists.  Our award-winning publishing lists include a wide range of distinguished non-fiction from biography to history and from current affairs to popular science, alongside with the world’s most famous sports book, The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Our acclaimed list of authors includes William Dalrymple, David Kynaston, Kate Summerscale, Laurie Penny, Vassos Alexander and Muir Gray.
 

The role

  • Provide support to the marketing and publicity teams across their campaigns including assisting with and organising events and accompanying authors to events and interviews
  • Ownership of some marketing and publicity campaigns including the majority of the paperback campaigns and involvement in development of special interest strategy and outreach
  • Creation of social media campaigns and assets
  • Management of administrative tasks
  • Responsibility for internal communication of publicity coverage and events schedule
  • Administrative support on quarterly marketing launch & review meetings
  • Management of intern roles and workload
  • General publicity and marketing contact for public and media, via phone and email
  • Responsibility for writing e-newsletters and updating areas of the website
  • Assisting with set up and manning of stands at exhibitions
  • Reporting line to Non Fiction and Sport/Nautical Team Leaders

Skills, knowledge, experience

  • Excellent organizational, timekeeping and multi-tasking skills
  • Great attention to detail
  • Passion for reading
  • Keen interest in social media
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong relationship building skills, internally and externally

The 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 29th March 2017

 

Marketing & Publicity Assistant (Adult Trade)

Permanent
Publisher
Marketing, Publicity

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