Marketing Manager, Transworld (12-month FTC)

London, UK (Hybrid)

£40K/yr – £44K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 22 hrs ago

Job Summary

You will own end-to-end, audience-first marketing campaigns for both fiction and non-fiction, shaping strategy, execution and measurement, while forging strong author and agent relationships and driving learning across acquisitions and strategic projects.

  • Lead creative, audience-led campaigns from concept to delivery
  • Collaborate with authors, agents and teams to translate insights into strategy
  • Leverage data and AI-enabled experimentation to improve performance

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Create and deliver creative, audience-led marketing campaigns across non-fiction and fiction.
  • Identify the audiences with the greatest potential for our books and develop creative strategies to reach, engage and convert them.
  • Build trusted relationships with authors and agents, confidently communicating campaign strategy and results.
  • Champion audience-first thinking, spotting consumer, cultural, social and platform trends, identifying opportunities for our books and authors, and sharing learning and best practice across the team.
  • Bring audience insight to wider publishing conversations, including acquisitions, new publishing opportunities and strategic projects.

Requirements

  • Significant proven experience of delivering creative, effective consumer marketing campaigns, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery.
  • A genuine fascination with audiences, culture and consumer behaviour, with experience using data and insight to improve campaign performance.
  • Strong digital marketing knowledge across social platforms, content, creators and paid media.
  • Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to work with authors, agents and stakeholders.
  • Strong commercial judgement and budget management, alongside excellent organisation and the ability to manage multiple campaigns and priorities.
  • A collaborative mindset, with a willingness to share ideas, expertise and learning, and curiosity to experiment with AI and emerging technology.
  • Experience in publishing, media, entertainment, consumer brands, retail, technology or another audience-led business.
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We are Penguin Random House UK: part of the world's leading trade publisher, Penguin Random House. We seek out and champion brilliant voices from across the globe, bringing their stories, ideas and writing to audiences everywhere. With over 50 independent imprints across nine publishing houses, we are the UK's largest publisher. We have over 2,000 employees across two publishing sites in London, two distribution centres in Frating and Grantham, and our archive and library in Rushden. We work with the best talent from within the industry and beyond, with publishing experts supported by dynamic teams specialising in Technology, Digital, Finance, Data and Sales – to name but a few. Collaboration, creativity and innovation lie at the heart of what we do. In a market which is constantly changing, we are stretching the definition of the word publisher: working with talent across the creative spectrum - from TV production companies to A-list audiobook narrators - to connect with more readers than ever before, both through and beyond the book.

Founded in 2013
London, England, GBR
2K employees (1,025 in marketing)

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£40K/yr – £44K/yr

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Marketing Manager, Transworld (12-month FTC)

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