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Publicity and Marketing Assistant (Adult Trade)

Publicity and Marketing Assistant (Adult Trade)

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Publishing is looking for an enthusiastic and meticulous Publicity and Marketing Assistant to join the creative and innovative Adult Publicity and Marketing team, working across the fiction and cookery division. The role will also include some diary management for the Marketing and Publicity Director.

Our award-winning and internationally bestselling lists include literary masters like Neil Gaiman, Khaled Hosseini, Madeline Miller, George Saunders and Kamila Shamsie, the vibrant young talent of Natasha Pulley, Laura Purcell and Samantha Shannon and high profile cooks including Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tom Kerridge and Raymond Blanc.

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, creation of social media campaigns and assets
  • Ownership of some marketing and publicity campaigns including the majority of the paperback campaigns and involvement in development of outreach
  • Management of administrative tasks across the full department
  • Responsibility of internal communication of publicity coverage and events
  • 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 of e-newsletters, updating areas of the website
  • Diary management duties for the Marketing & Publicity Director
  • Reporting line to Fiction and Cookery team Leaders

Skills, knowledge, experience

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

The role is based at Bloomsbury’s London office – 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP. To apply, please email your CV with a covering letter outlining how you meet our requirements for this role and your salary expectations to: workwithus@bloomsbury.com. Please state in the subject line: ‘Publicity & Marketing Assistant BS2808’. 

The closing date for this role is Monday 28th August 2018.

Publicity and Marketing Assistant (Adult Trade)

Full-time, Permanent
Professional
Publicity, Marketing, Admin & PA

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