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Senior Press Officer (4m FTC), Penguin Press – Temporary Role

Could you turn a book into a bestseller?

Our Penguin Press team are looking for a Senior Press Officer to join them to run publicity campaigns across a range of books and events.  This is an opportunity to work in a busy and proactive team where the focus is on creating striking and thought provoking campaigns that get our best books into the hands of our consumers.

Penguin Press publishes high quality, game-changing books across a range of subjects by authors including Owen Jones, Malcolm Gladwell, Naomi Klein and Carlo Rovelli, as well as beautiful, illustrated works like Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls and The Fox and The Star. Along with an emerging poetry list, Press is also home to the world-famous Penguin Classics series.

So, what can you expect?

You’ll work across the Penguin Press list producing ambitious, agenda-setting campaigns and working closely with authors and editors to make sure that each launch runs as smoothly as possible.  This means setting up media schedules, mailing out proofs and finished copies, securing features and reviews as well as organising events and literary festival appearances.

You’ll also work closely with other areas of the business such as our marketing and digital media teams to tell the world about your books across every platform.

Your excellent communication skills will allow you to collaborate easily with key internal and external stakeholders, and you’ll form strong working relationships with the media, authors and agents as well as colleagues across Editorial, Sales and Marketing.

We are looking for someone who is ambitious, has an engagement with current affairs and is plugged in to what’s happening, and who is interested in working on projects that spark debate and conversation with a political news edge.

If this sounds like the ideal next step for you, please apply with a CV and Cover Letter by midnight on Monday 18th March 2019

Senior Press Officer (4m FTC), Penguin Press – Temporary Role

Contract, Full-time, Temporary
Publisher
Account Manager, Events, PR, Publicity, Marketing, Sales, Editorial

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