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Publicity Manager / Senior Publicity Manager

The opportunity

Do you have what it takes to start a national conversation? Be instrumental in creating bestsellers? Do you want to help spread the word about some of the most exciting nonfiction books out there?

We are looking for a senior member of our publicity team to lead the way in securing the most dynamic and impactful media coverage for some of today’s greatest thinkers around the world.

We publish a diverse and exciting list of voices and books, more recently such heavy-hitters as Reni Eddo-Lodge and her phenomenal Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, a case for Universal Basic Income Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman, and a new history of the world The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan. We have an incredible line-up for next year too including Outrage is the New Black by Radio 1Xtra presenter Ashley Dotty Charles, the authorized history of Britain’s secret intelligence agency GCHQ, a major biography of Lucian Freud, a history of the East India Company by William Dalrymple and She Said by Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who broke the Weinstein story.

The role

  • Planning and executing your own publicity campaigns
  • Securing media coverage for high-profile authors and exciting debuts
  • Starting conversations across the country, and maximising book sales

Skills, knowledge, experience

  • At least three years’ experience in books PR
  • Excellent communicator
  • Have great relationships with journalists
  • Be full of ambition for your books
  • Great attention to detail
  • Thrive in a fast-paced and sometimes unpredictable environment
  • Produce creative, original and persuasive press releases and pitches
  • Have an interest in current affairs and be engaged with what’s going on in the UK and across the world
  • Want your books to be part of the conversation and where possible, be agenda-setting
  • Enjoy working as part of a team that loves to collaborate

If this sounds like a job for you, then please get in touch…. 

This is a permanent, full-time position based at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP. Bloomsbury Publishing offers a competitive salary and generous staff discounts.

To apply, please email your CV, a covering letter outlining how you meet the requirements outlined in the ‘skills, knowledge and experience’ above, your salary expectations and notice period to workwithus@bloomsbury.com. Please note in the subject line: Publicity Manager BS1012

The closing date for this role is Monday 10th December 2018.

Publicity Manager / Senior Publicity Manager

Full-time
Publisher
Publicity
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Publicity Manager BS1012

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