Marketing Assistant
What you’ll be doing
You’ll join an award-winning, dynamic, collaborative marketing team that works across fiction and non-fiction.
You’ll be assisting the Marketing Directors and wider team in the planning and co-ordination of everything from campaigns to conferences and you will have plenty opportunity to learn from highly experienced colleagues.
Your responsibilities will include managing the marketing critical path, assisting with budget management and purchase order creation, liaising with internal and external designers, creating key reports, co-ordinating internal and external mailings and providing vital administrative support across the department.
The role is varied and provides excellent exposure to all elements of the marketing mix from traditional through to digital, from trade to consumer marketing. It will suit an ambitious and enthusiastic individual who is keen to progress their career at a large trade publisher.
Who we are looking for
The ideal candidate will be confident, enthusiastic, efficient and bring fresh ideas to the role. We are looking for someone who is highly organised, able to multi-task and prioritise effectively, and who thrives in a busy environment. Exceptional communication skills, both written and spoken, are required, as well as excellent social media skills. You’ll be able to prioritise and juggle competing demands with ease and will be a proactive problem-solver. A knowledge of Word, Excel, Canva and PowerPoint is vital and a passion for books, social media, and communication is a must.
What we offer
Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this. In addition to 28 days annual leave days per year + bank holidays, we have an extensive list of benefits that include: a wide-ranging training library, development programmes including mentoring, Cycle to Work vouchers, Private Medical Insurance, eye care vouchers, up to 70% off book purchases, a charity book shelf, 2 community days per year, many employee networks to join, summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months!), season ticket loans, rent deposit loans, generous pension schemes and much more!
The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.
Who we are and what we do
Four-time winner of the Publisher of the Year award, Little, Brown Book Group is one of the most successful and dynamic publishers in the UK. Across our thirteen imprints, we publish as wide a range of titles as anyone in the industry, and pride ourselves on the quality, variety and diversity of our publishing output.
Little, Brown Book Group’s imprints have a market-leading presence in almost every area of the industry. On our Abacus, Virago, Corsair, Fleet and Blackfriars imprints we publish literature of the highest standard, from prize-winning fiction to agenda-setting non-fiction and a range of prestigious classics. On our commercial imprint, Sphere, we publish some of the world’s biggest brand-name novelists and an array of bestselling non-fiction. Our Atom and Orbit imprints lead the field in young adult and science fiction/fantasy publishing respectively, and our Piatkus Constable Robinson (PCR) division is home to a vast range of fiction and non-fiction titles, with multiple Sunday Times bestsellers, backlist category killers, break-out voices and perennial classics alike. Meanwhile, our fast-growing Hachette Audio list is at the forefront of audio publishing. Our newest imprint, which launched in 2020, The Bridge Street Press publishes upmarket non-fiction with an international outlook, dedicated to new ideas from authors who are at the forefront of their fields.
Our Commitment
Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.
If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.
The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org