Marketing Manager

Are you looking for your next role in marketing? Do you love good books and like to share that love? Do you have what it takes to deliver game-changing, creative campaigns?

We are looking for a Marketing Manager to join the Penguin Press division to work on campaigns for some of our biggest books.

About Penguin Press

Press is one of Penguin Random House’s nine publishing houses, and comprises Allen Lane, Pelican, Particular Books and the world-famous Penguin Classics library.

Home to serious and groundbreaking non-fiction in hardback and paperback, plus the extended family of classic fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama, we have established a reputation for books that bring new ideas to readers and represent the best in editorial and design standards.

Our authors include Naomi Klein, Claudia Rankine, Bernie Sanders, Malcolm Gladwell, Carlo Rovelli and Thomas Halliday. Recently published into Penguin Classics are works by Brigitte Reimann, Tove Ditlevsen and Yukio Mishima.

The Opportunity

Reporting into the Marketing Director, and joining a wider, award-winning marketing team of eight, you will be responsible for creating awareness and consumer engagement for our books and brand authors, as well as planning trade marketing strategy across the breadth of our publishing.

You will independently and confidently create, manage and implement creative and sales-driving marketing campaigns - working closely with the team, as well as colleagues in publicity, sales and editorial to ensure a joined-up approach.

You’ll identify audiences, develop engaging consumer messages via campaign creative and written copy, you’ll use your experience to understand what will work for partnerships, social media initiatives, bookseller and trade engagement. You’ll be involved across the publishing process, from devising campaign plans to bringing your expertise to the acquisition stage and brand strategy.

What you’ll bring

While we don’t expect you to have worked in publishing before, you will have a proven track record of independently producing standout marketing campaigns in a commercial environment. Perhaps you’ve done this working in arts, culture, entertainment or the media industry more widely; what’s important to us is that you are passionate about marketing, design, and can get excited about our fantastic list of books.

You’ll also:

• Be highly organised with excellent time management in order to juggle concurrent campaigns
• Have outstanding communication skills to be able to pitch ideas, report back to authors and agents and produce materials both internally and externally
• Demonstrate analytical ability and financial awareness for your campaigns
• Be commercially minded, curious and inclusive - always looking for inspiration from outside

If this sounds like your next role, we’d love to hear from you.

Please apply with a CV and cover letter by Monday 10th July. Interviews will commence shortly after, at our offices in Embassy Gardens.

As part of your cover letter, we’d like you to tell us about a recent marketing campaign – doesn’t have to be book related – that caught your eye recently, and why you thought it made an impact (in no more than 200 words).

What you can expect from us

Salary: circa £35,000 depending on how your skills and experience align with the role, plus bonus and benefits.

Our hybrid working approach

While our offices are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility about where you work is just as important for doing your best work and for your wellbeing. For this role, there are meetings and activities that you will need to attend in person at our offices in Pimlico, roughly 2-3 times a week.

Our employees are the heart of our business. We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:

• 27 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days

• Medical cover

• Life assurance

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Discounted gym membership

• Generous pension scheme

• Summer working hours (role dependent)

• Volunteering policy and charity matching

• Employee Assistance programme

• Mentoring programme

• Extended gender neutral parental leave

• Access to books and eBooks across Penguin Random House UK

• Each site has trained mental health first aiders

• We plant a tree for every new employee to our business