digital marketing London, England
Job description
Marketing Executive – Special Interest
The opportunity
Bloomsbury Publishing is looking for a highly skilled Marketing Executive to work across our non-fiction special interest imprints.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, creative and ambitious individual to join the campaigns team working across the Special Interest division at Bloomsbury. The Imprints include: Continuum, Green Tree, Green Books, Sport, Conway, Wildlife, Reeds and Sigma. Our award-winning publishing lists include a wide range of distinguished non-fiction from current affairs to popular science, from religion to wellbeing, and from business to the outdoors, alongside with the world’s most famous sports book, The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Our acclaimed list of authors includes: Maisie Hill, Martin Dorey, Justin Welby, Paul Tonkinson, Anna Williamson and Louise Minchin.
The role
- Create and implement marketing campaigns to drive sales and maximise profit.
- Effectively communicate marketing campaigns to all key stakeholders both internal and external.
- Manage content for the online communities, our website and social media channels
- Manage the briefing and creative direction of marketing assets.
- Proactively identify and build partnerships for key titles, brands and authors.
- Responsibility for the series and brand marketing of selected imprints
- Manage and attend events and conferences relevant to the list.
- Work closely with publicity colleagues to ensure marketing and publicity campaigns are fully integrated
- Stay informed about new marketing insights, developments and opportunities.
Knowledge, skills and experience
- Experience of book marketing.
- Knowledge of community building, social media, email, online advertising.
- The ability to multi-task and work on several different projects simultaneously.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Good copy-writing, proof-reading, design and project-management skills.
- Good time-management and people-management skills.
- Indesign/photoshop skills would be an advantage.
- Basic video editing skills would be an advantage.
Additional information
The role is a full-time permanent position.
The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are: Monday and Tuesday.
Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 11th July 2023.
Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications
Bloomsbury Benefits
As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:
Working Pattern
- hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)
Holidays
- 25 days holiday
- 3.5 days Christmas company holiday
Other Benefits:
Two paid Personal Wellness Days
Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 45 minutes earlier in the week
Season Ticket Loan
Sharesave Scheme
In-house Doctor
Eyecare Voucher Scheme
Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom (BAME), Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers) and 8 Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources
For additional benefits see below
Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required
Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.
