Marketing Assistant

London, UK (Unknown)

£26K/yr – £28K/yrIntern/New GradPermanent

Posted 2 months ago

Job Summary

Own the coordination of marketing support and materials, contribute to digital marketing and campaign tasks, and apply strong admin skills and clear communication to support a busy publishing team.

  • Admin and logistics for marketing team
  • Support media outreach and content development

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Providing administrative support for the team, including managing the marketing email inbox, organising meetings, minute-taking, updating data in our systems and raising POs/invoices
  • Co-ordinating the design, production and distribution of marketing materials, in print and digital formats
  • Honing your skills to pitching for coverage in trade media such as The Bookseller
  • Researching and collating information for internal and external presentations
  • Assisting in organising key marketing events and attending where needed
  • Contributing creatively to the development of digital marketing, e.g. communities, blogs, social media channels, newsletters etc.
  • Attending training and then using relevant systems to run datasets for the marketing team
  • Supporting the team on campaign tasks including influencer research, bookseller outreach and mailings

Requirements

  • This is an entry-level role and previous publishing experience is not required, but we'd welcome candidates with proven admin and organisation skills and ideally experience working in a busy environment.
  • Strong written and spoken communication skills are essential, as you’ll be interacting with colleagues from all departments, as well as external stakeholders such as authors.
  • Are you organised and efficient, a team-player with a positive outlook and a love for books? We’d love to hear from you!
  • Very likely: you’ll be extremely organised and reliable, able to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously and unafraid to ask questions in the spirit of learning how best to support across the team.

Benefits

  • 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)
  • Private medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Generous pension schemes
  • Rent deposit loans
  • 2 community days per year
  • Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)
  • Retail discounts through Hachette rewards
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Eye care vouchers
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Founded in 1846, we’re the second-biggest publishing group in the UK - part of Hachette Livre - with 12 divisions and over 50 imprints. Our award-winning publishing divisions include Orion; Little, Brown; John Murray Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Hachette Children’s Group; Headline; Quercus; Bookouture; Dialogue; Octopus; Hodder Education; and Paperblanks – and together, our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity. Our history is interwoven with the history of the world. From The Origin of Species to Jane Eyre, The Long Walk to Freedom to Heartstopper, the stories we’ve helped to share have shaped – and continue to shape – culture across the globe. We’re incredibly proud of our past, but we’re also looking to the future; knowing the stories we publish today will shape the world of tomorrow. We value and actively seek different perspectives, voices and ideas to support creativity and break new ground. You’ll find everything on our bookshelves from blockbuster fiction and insightful non-fiction to informative textbooks and vibrant children’s books. We’re proud to publish thousands of new books every year, and our authors include Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O’Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling, Colson Whitehead, and Malala Yousafzai. We’ve also got puzzles, gifts, and games, are the market leader in e-books, and even publish a range of bestsellers in audio format - the fastest-growing part of our business! Today, as well as our London HQ, we have five national offices across the UK, and a major distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire. Around the world, our other regions include Australia, India, Ireland, Jamaica and New Zealand; offering you more choices than ever when it comes to finding the right location for you.

Founded in 1986
London, England, GBR
2.2K employees (1,335 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

£26K/yr – £28K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,191 (53% of company)
Median Tenure
5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
306.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.4%
Direct
44.9%
Referral
8%
Social
2.9%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.2K

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