Campaigns Executive - Audio (12m FTC) London, England
Job description
We have an exciting opportunity to join our innovative and ground-breaking Audio team on a 12-month fixed term contract, covering a period of absence in the team.
About the Audio team
At Penguin Random House Audio, the UK’s leading audiobook publisher, we are dedicated to making the very best audiobooks. Working with exceptional acting talent, producers and studios, we publish award-winning and bestselling audiobooks such as Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club series, Bernadine Evaristo’s Booker-winning Girl, Woman, Other, Prince Harry’s Spare and Dr Julie Smith’s Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a Campaigns Executive who is eager to join an award-winning team in the fastest-growing segment of publishing. You’ll have experience developing inspiring and highly effective marketing and publicity campaigns that deliver results. With a love of all things audio, you’ll be brimming with ideas to reach new and existing listeners.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Planning, implementing, and analysing standout audio marketing and publicity campaigns.Generating ideas to promote the audio format across varied audiences and genres, from celebrity memoirs to politics to young adult and children’s books.
Developing content with authors and narrators in the recording studio.
Liaising with Penguin Random House marketing teams to build multi-format campaigns.
Briefing media agencies, monitoring results, and reporting post campaign.
Encouraging authors to champion the audio format.
Identifying opportunities to promote the audio through PR and influencers.
What you’ll bring
We’ll need you to have:
Experience of running your own campaigns, bringing bags of enthusiasm and ideas to each one, using your initiative to make the most of your budget, however big or small.Confidence in your approach and ability to represent the Audio team in inter-departmental meetings.
Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, juggling multiple projects and campaigns at once.
It goes without saying you’ll have a passion for audio, but you certainly don’t need to have worked in audiobooks or publishing before. Whoever you are, we want someone ready for an exciting new challenge.
If this sounds like your next role, please apply with your CV and Cover Letter by midnight on Sunday 2nd April.
As part of your cover letter, please tell us about a recent audiobook you loved, and why (in no more than 200 words).
What you can expect from us
Salary: Up to £30,500 depending on how your skills and experience align with the role, plus bonus and benefits
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, some meetings will need to be attended in person at our offices in Embassy Gardens. We are open to discussing the exact balance of office to remote working through the recruitment process.
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 http://[email protected]. 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: http://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/applying-for-roles-with-a-disability
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: https://btbs.org/grants
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: SW11
Job ID: 258444
