Senior Marketing Manager, Penguin Michael Joseph

• Lead the planning and delivery of integrated marketing campaigns across frontlist and bestselling backlist titles.
• Develop creative, audience-first marketing strategies informed by consumer insight, market trends and campaign performance.
• Manage marketing budgets, ensuring campaigns deliver against commercial objectives.
• Build strong relationships with authors, agents, publishers and external partners, acting as a trusted marketing lead.
• Identify partnership, influencer and brand opportunities that maximise campaign reach.
• Champion titles across the business, working collaboratively with Editorial, Publicity, Sales and Design.

• Significant proven experience leading large-scale marketing campaigns within book publishing or closely related creative industries.
• Experience working with high-profile authors, talent or brands, and building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing marketing budgets and delivering commercially successful campaigns.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong commercial awareness and an audience-first approach to marketing.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• A collaborative approach, with the confidence to influence across teams.

criteria

• Experience working across both non-fiction and fiction titles

• Please apply with your CV and cover letter outlining why you are the right candidate for the role by 11:59pm on Sunday 2nd August.
• Please ensure you include a cover letter, as it is a crucial part of our assessment process. The cover letter offers an opportunity to show how your experience and interests align with the role requirements. Typically, we expect the cover letter to be no more than one or two pages in length.

• c.£45,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

• While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role we expect that you will be in the office three days per week.

• As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. The essential criteria for this role are listed as part of the ‘What you’ll bring’ section. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.
• We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHC[email protected]. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable with, for us to support your request.

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