Marketing Manager (Maternity Cover)
Faber
- Location
- London, UK (Hybrid)
- Posted
- June 8, 2026
Job Description
Role overview
Faber is a leading independent literary publisher, committed to the world’s most dynamic and significant voices. The list spans Nobel laureates, bestselling fiction, award-winning non-fiction, poetry, film, music and drama. We publish a diverse range of authors including Anna Burns, Eliza Clarke, Rachel Cusk, Marina Hyde, Kazuo Ishiguro, Claire Keegan, John Lanchester and Max Porter, Katherine Rundell and Gary Younge and have an unrivalled archival backlist featuring T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath and P.D. James.
We are looking for a creative and capable marketer who is excited by the idea of working on a diverse list of literary and commercial publishing. You’ll have experience in running ambitious and original campaigns as well as presenting your ideas in author meetings. You’ll be an effective copywriter who is easily able to communicate your design vision, an innovative digital marketer, and somebody who can identify audiences and knows how best to reach them. Working in a busy team, this is a job for a resourceful marketer who can plan and implement exciting and sales-driving campaigns for our books and authors.
Responsibilities
- Planning and implementing campaigns for a range of adult fiction and non-fiction titles
- Producing trade sell-in materials such as proofs, presenters and point of sale
- Working with a media agency to plan effective advertising campaigns
- Collaborating closely with publicity and sales colleagues to deliver joined-up campaigns which drive sales
- Briefing and project-managing freelance designers to produce a wide range of content
- Managing campaign spend ensuring activity is delivered on time and within budget
- Writing copy for book proofs, advertising and print materials
- Planning and implementing social media advertising campaigns
- Presenting ideas and campaign plans internally and externally
- Author pitches and acquisition plans
- Representing marketing in publishing strategy meetings
- Managing all elements of marketing campaigns including online and OOH advertising, briefing assets graphics, animations and films, organising partnerships, producing sellin materials, proof briefing, copywriting, social media marketing and trade marketing.
Requirements
- Creative and capable marketer
- Experience in running ambitious and original campaigns
- Experience presenting ideas in author meetings
- Effective copywriter
- Ability to communicate design vision
- Innovative digital marketer
- Ability to identify audiences and how best to reach them
- Resourceful marketer able to plan and implement exciting and sales-driving campaigns
Logistics
- This maternity cover role will report to the Deputy Marketing Director.
- Ideally beginning in late August 2026.
- Full-time position for a fixed term of up to 12 months.
- Hybrid basis, with a minimum of three days in our central London office.
Application Information
- To apply, please send a CV and covering letter to [email protected] quoting ref FF.
- The closing date for applications is Wednesday 17th June 2026.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary: Competitive
- Access to Faber titles (including regular staff book clubs), discounted Independent Alliance titles
- Minimum of 28 days’ holiday per year
- Five days per year for volunteering work of your choice
- Full subscription to the Headspace meditation app
- Season-ticket loans
- Cycle-to-work vouchers
- Subsidised eye tests
- Generous pension scheme
- Life assurance and income protection insurance
- Access to online GP and advisory services