Senior Marketing Manager, Penguin Michael Joseph

Penguin Michael Joseph (PMJ) have an exciting role available for a passionate and talented Senior Marketing Manager to maximise the sales potential of their non-fiction and cookery list.

This will be a pivotal role in our Non-Fiction team, which spans across personal development, popular psychology, wellbeing, cookery, parenting, health, diet and fitness. PMJ is home to iconic authors and inspiring writers, including Jamie Oliver, Dr Julie Smith, Jeremy Clarkson, Raynor Winn, Roxie Nafousie, Nadiya Hussain, Dawn French and Gyles Brandreth  

The Opportunity

This role will be responsible for planning and implementing integrated and innovative campaigns for both our frontlist and bestselling catalogue titles.

You will independently and confidently create, manage and deliver creative and audience-facing marketing campaigns. The successful candidate will be a key voice in our communications team and will bring their knowledge of the marketing landscape and prior experience to produce outstanding campaigns.

You will contribute to every stage of the publishing process, from acquisition to cover design, campaigns, brand strategy meetings, author events and much more. You’ll constantly work to build the Non-Fiction teams’ network of influencers, partnership contacts and brands to make our campaigns as impactful as possible.

This role will primarily be working across the Non-Fiction list, but there will be opportunity to work on some Fiction projects.

What you’ll bring

Perhaps you’re an experienced book Marketing Manager looking for their next step, or a senior marketeer looking to work across bigger campaigns and activate brand strategy.  What’s important to us is that you understand the non-fiction and cookery landscapes and campaign specialism for this part of the market.

You’ll be a creative and strategic thinker who is comfortable using consumer insight and market knowledge to produce market-leading campaigns with real impact. You’ll also be an excellent communicator able to lead and collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders both internal and external. 

Qualities we’re looking for:

• Outstanding communication skills to be able to pitch ideas, report back to authors and agents and produce materials both internally and externally

• Digital marketing skills, experience with interpreting data and using it to create strategic campaigns

• Being able to quickly adapt, respond to trends and pivot to the newest “moment”

• A self-starter who can work independently and manage multiple projects all with different lead times

• A confident partner for other internal teams including Editorial, Publicity and Sales to champion each book

• Be commercially minded, curious and inclusive - always looking for inspiration from outside

• Be a confident presenter with exceptional interpersonal and senior stakeholder management skills, as well as being able to demonstrate ingenuity and initiative,

• Have high commercial awareness of the market and competition,

• Ability to lead on sales growth strategies

Importantly, you’ll be able to show us that you’re passionate about commercial non-fiction and have an eagerness to get our books into as many readers’ hands as possible.

If this sounds like your next role, please apply with your CV and cover letter by 11:59pm on Sunday 3rd November.

About Penguin:

We’re the UK’s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you’ll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

Salary: £42,000, plus bonus and benefits.

Competitive benefits package: Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

• Financial – income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance

• Wellbeing - healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks

• Lifestyle – enhanced parental leave, tech scheme,

For our full benefits list please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/what-we-offer/

Hybrid working: We’re experimenting with a hybrid way of working that suits the needs of each team. While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role we expect that you work from our office in Embassy Gardens 3 days a week.

The recruitment process: You can read about our recruitment process at https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/how-we-hire/

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we're part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can't take all eligible candidates to interview. We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.