Entertainment Booker (Maternity Cover)

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Entertainment Booker (Maternity Cover), London

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Client:

Hearst

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

8

Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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Job Description:

At Hearst UK, there’s always more to the story. Join us as our Entertainment Booker (Maternity Cover) to start the next chapter in your career.

We’re the UK’s leading premium publisher, and the people behind iconic media brands such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and Country Living. We’ve created a working environment that encourages everyone to pull together. We never stop looking for brave new ideas. We’ll always try to develop and improve, we trust each other to do our best, and we have fun as we build on our heritage to make history.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Starting in August, we are looking for an enthusiastic and super-organised Entertainment Booker (Maternity Cover). The role is vital in supporting Hearst’s busy Entertainment team, working across both the Luxury and Women’s Lifestyle brands – these include ELLE, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Red and Prima.

You will support the central Entertainment team with celebrity talent bookings and negotiations across print, digital, and video platforms, as well as for brand events. It will be your job to oversee bookings for talent led video interviews across the brands, keeping the editorial teams aware of upcoming releases and junkets with relevant talent and liaising with the internal video team about these opportunities.

You will also help oversee bookings for Red’s regular feature, My List of Everything, and help conduct video interviews when needed.

You will ensure the Entertainment team are aware of all new entertainment releases with an up-to-date release schedule, and regularly attend launches, screenings and events.

You will support the Group Entertainment Director, Entertainment Editor (Luxury), Entertainment Editor (Women’s Lifestyle) and Entertainment Editor (Special Projects), with production admin on photo shoots, brand projects and with the day to day running of the department.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinating and booking talent for video shoots across the brands
• Keeping the entertainment release schedule and forward planner up to date to ensure we are aware of all the key releases for our brands.
• Helping with production admin on cover shoots and video shoots
• Booking talent for digital profiles and print profiles
• Booking talent for brand events such as Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year, Summit and International Women’s Day
• Participating in creative brainstorms
• Attending video and photo shoots when required
• Attending screenings and entertainment launches, where appropriate
• Interviewing talent for video franchises when required
• Liaising with and maintaining relationships with key external contacts like celebrity publicists, as well as entertainment and brand PRs, in a professional manner

ABOUT YOU

A great team-player, who loves to collaborate, you will have a strong interest in entertainment and pop culture. Experience working on an entertainment team is a must, whether that’s on a magazine brand, newspaper, podcast, TV or radio show. As a result, you will have a brilliant network of entertainment PRs and know all the big upcoming entertainment releases our team should be covering. You’ll also be super-organised and full of brilliant ideas.A journalist qualification such as an NCTJ diploma would be preferable but is not essential.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Hearst UK, you can choose from a huge range of perks and benefits that can help you learn well, work well and live well including:

• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy up to 5 additional holiday days)
• Hybrid working – Three days per week in the office
• Discounted gym membership
• Spend a charity day with your favourite good cause
• Life assurance and pension scheme
• Regular socials and more!

There’s more to your story than you imagine. And the next chapter begins right here.

Hearst UK is deeply committed to using our influential brands to reflect the world we want to live in – one that respects, protects, represents and uplifts the voices and opinions of all people. As a business, we recognise the significant benefits of creativity, collaboration and innovation that comes with diverse teams. Not only is diversifying the voices in our organization the right thing to do, but it also helps us to make powerful and exciting content that can be enjoyed by many more people. This is why we’re working to build a sense of true belonging within our business and foster a culture in which everyone feelsheard.