Job Description

Are you looking for your next role in marketing? Do you love good books and like to share that love? Do you have what it takes to deliver game-changing, creative campaigns?

We are looking for a Marketing Manager to join the Penguin Press division to work on campaigns for some of our biggest books.

Press is one of Penguin Random House\xe2\x80\x99s nine publishing houses, and comprises Allen Lane, Pelican, Particular Books and the world-famous Penguin Classics library.

Home to serious and groundbreaking non-fiction in hardback and paperback, plus the extended family of classic fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama, we have established a reputation for books that bring new ideas to readers and represent the best in editorial and design standards.

Our authors include Naomi Klein, Claudia Rankine, Bernie Sanders, Malcolm Gladwell, Carlo Rovelli and Thomas Halliday. Recently published into Penguin Classics are works by Brigitte Reimann, Tove Ditlevsen and Yukio Mishima.

The Opportunity

Reporting into the Marketing Director, and joining a wider, award-winning marketing team of eight, you will be responsible for creating awareness and consumer engagement for our books and brand authors, as well as planning trade marketing strategy across the breadth of our publishing.

You will independently and confidently create, manage and implement creative and sales-driving marketing campaigns - working closely with the team, as well as colleagues in publicity, sales and editorial to ensure a joined-up approach.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll identify audiences, develop engaging consumer messages via campaign creative and written copy, you\xe2\x80\x99ll use your experience to understand what will work for partnerships, social media initiatives, bookseller and trade engagement. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be involved across the publishing process, from devising campaign plans to bringing your expertise to the acquisition stage and brand strategy.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll bring

While we don\xe2\x80\x99t expect you to have worked in publishing before, you will have a proven track record of independently producing standout marketing campaigns in a commercial environment. Perhaps you\xe2\x80\x99ve done this working in arts, culture, entertainment or the media industry more widely; what\xe2\x80\x99s important to us is that you are passionate about marketing, design, and can get excited about our fantastic list of books.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll also:

Be highly organised with excellent time management in order to juggle concurrent campaigns

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

Demonstrate analytical ability and financial awareness for your campaigns

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

If this sounds like your next role, we\xe2\x80\x99d love to hear from you.

Please apply with a CV and cover letter by Monday 10th July. Interviews will commence shortly after, at our offices in Embassy Gardens.

As part of your cover letter, we\xe2\x80\x99d like you to tell us about a recent marketing campaign \xe2\x80\x93 doesn\xe2\x80\x99t have to be book related \xe2\x80\x93 that caught your eye recently, and why you thought it made an impact (in no more than 200 words).

What you can expect from us

Salary: circa \xc2\xa335,000 depending on how your skills and experience align with the role, plus bonus and benefits.

Our hybrid working approach

While our offices are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility about where you work is just as important for doing your best work and for your wellbeing. For this role, there are meetings and activities that you will need to attend in person at our offices in Pimlico, roughly 2-3 times a week.

Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:

• 27 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days
• Medical cover
• Life assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Generous pension scheme
• Summer working hours (role dependent)
• Volunteering policy and charity matching
• Employee Assistance programme
• Mentoring programme
• Extended gender neutral parental leave
• Access to books and eBooks across Penguin Random House UK
• Each site has trained mental health first aiders
• We plant a tree for every new employee to our business

Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.

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 want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at . Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here:

We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here:

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

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: London

City: London

Postal Code: SW1V

Job ID: 261435

Penguin Books