Job description
Job title : Content Creator, Marketing (initial fixed term contract to December 31, 2023)
Reports to : Rob Power, Head of Marketing and Publicity, Children’s
Location: Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London
Working pattern : Flexible home working up to three days per week
Imprint: Various – fiction and non-fiction
Department: Marketing
Salary range : £28-30,000 per annum
General Summary
Are you a creative videographer with a flair for stunning visuals and an eye for social media trends?
Bonnier Books UK is looking for an exceptional content creator to become a part of our innovative Marketing and Publicity team. Reporting to the head of marketing, you’ll be responsible for crafting best-in-class video content for our books, from bestselling YA through to cutting edge thrillers, commercial fiction and non-fiction, and plenty more.
You’ll deliver exciting and engaging content that showcases our incredible authors, brands and imprints, supporting marketing managers with their frontlist marketing campaigns and developing ongoing content strategies.
The ideal candidate will have first class video production skills, proven experience in social media content production, and excellent technical ability.
You’ll be highly organised, confident and creative, with a demonstrable ability to create eye-catching video content across a diverse range of subject matter. This role would suit an early career freelancer looking for an in-house role, or a talented recent graduate looking to make an impact.
This is a rare opportunity to join an award-winning publisher at a time of exciting growth and become the in-house video content expert. If you’re ready to create best-in-class video content for a publisher at the top of its game, we’d love to hear from you.
Key responsibilities:
- Produce video content for key releases, events, advertisements and general social media usage.
- Work with our PR and Marketing teams to create engaging social media content for use across Meta, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube
- Lead on the set up of cameras and lighting for social media content creation
- Video editing, motion graphics and postproduction
- Travel to events including signings, launches and festivals to capture high quality content
- Work closely with the Marketing and Publicity teams to share learnings and best practice around video content
- Become in-house expert and internal point of contact on all video content creation
- Advise on technical aspects of video content creation
Qualifications and Experience
- Comprehensive knowledge of video production, and how it correlates to social media
- An eye for key trends and how video styles engage with audiences
- Excellent knowledge and experience in Adobe Suite, After Effects & photoshop
- Advanced knowledge of camera & lighting equipment
- Strong understanding of Adobe Premiere or similar
- An excellent eye for creative marketing material
- Ability to perform to deliver high-quality work to deadline
- Proactive and confident around all aspects of content productions
- An active interest in books and / or publishing industry experience preferred but not essential
Competitive Salary
Working with a team of passionate, talented people
Internal learning and development programmes
Career Development opportunities
Fun social events
At Bonnier Books UK, we believe that every book matters. We love to publish stories and content that open our eyes to new perspectives and bring us closer together. We offer a nurturing home for our authors, illustrators and brand partners, publishing bestselling books for readers and listeners everywhere. We know that fantastic stories can come from anywhere and our purpose is to bring them to as wide an audience as possible, a simple ethos that has led to us becoming one of the country’s leading publishers.
The offspring of Bonnier Books, a family-owned top-15 world publisher headquartered in Sweden, we are inspired by a rich literary heritage but not bound by convention. We think in generations rather than quarters, and strive always to operate in an open, curious way that contributes to the future of the planet and its people. As a climate-neutral publisher we are an active participant in the Science Based Target initiative, committed to a strategy to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.