Senior Marketing Manager, Penguin Michael Joseph

London, UK (Hybrid)

$77K/yr - $96K/yr (Est.)Senior LevelFull time

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and lead integrated marketing campaigns across frontlist and backlist, guiding strategy, budget and cross-functional collaboration to grow audiences and maximize sales.

  • Lead high-profile campaigns from acquisition through publication and beyond
  • Build trusted relationships with authors, agents, publishers and partners

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • As Senior Marketing Manager you’ll take ownership of high-profile campaigns from acquisition through to publication and beyond, working with some of the UK’s biggest authors and collaborating closely with editors, publishers, agents and colleagues across the business.
  • As a senior voice within the team, you’ll help shape publishing strategy, influence campaign direction and identify opportunities to grow audiences and maximise sales.

Requirements

  • 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.

Preferred

  • Experience working across both non-fiction and fiction titles
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Penguin Random House UK

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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