Responsibilities

• Leading the development and delivery of standout marketing campaigns from acquisition through publication and beyond, bringing Orion’s books to life and driving sales
• Creating bold, insight-led campaign strategies with clear positioning, audience targeting and measurable outcomes
• Overseeing digital marketing strategy and execution across paid and organic channels, optimising performance through data and analytics
• Working closely with Editorial, Publicity and Sales teams to ensure campaigns are strategically aligned
• Driving forward the Gollancz imprint community growth strategy alongside a junior team member
• Building strong relationships with authors, agents, retailers and external partners to maximise reach and impact
• Identifying opportunities to grow readerships, build brand equity and deepen direct-to-consumer engagement
• Leading key launches and major brand campaigns, contributing to the overall success of the Orion list
• Managing multiple projects and budgets simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

Requirements

• demonstrable experience leading creative and effective marketing campaigns.
• experience across all aspects of marketing.
• adept at working collaboratively with publicity, sales and editorial teams to craft pitch-perfect strategies that place the consumer at the heart of every campaign.
• Thoughtful planning, excellent budget management and timely, confident execution will be hallmarks of your work.
• adept in all aspects of stakeholder management and experienced in working across large teams, demonstrating excellent relationship-building, communication and presentation skills.

Preferred

• experience working on commercial fiction and/or SFF is a bonus, but not essential.
• Our team plays a key role at every stage of our books’ and gifts’ journey, from acquisition to publication and beyond. You will bring excellent market knowledge across a range of genres; experience working on commercial fiction and/or SFF is a bonus, but not essential.
• Experience across all aspects of marketing and adept at working collaboratively with publicity, sales and editorial teams to craft pitch-perfect strategies that place the consumer at the heart of every campaign. Thoughtful planning, excellent budget management and timely, confident execution will be hallmarks of your work.
• You will also be adept in all aspects of stakeholder management and experienced in working across large teams, demonstrating excellent relationship-building, communication and presentation skills.

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)
• 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
• Wide-ranging training library
• Development programmes (including mentoring)