Senior Marketing Manager

Hachette UK Limited; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children’s publisher in the UK is seeking a Senior Marketing Manager to join its award-winning team. This key role involves leading innovative marketing campaigns for major titles and brands, focusing on both digital marketing strategy and the launch of new acquisitions. Candidates should possess a strong marketing background, creativity, and excellent project management skills. The position offers a collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional development, based in London or Sheffield with a hybrid working model.

Benefits

28 annual leave days increasing with service

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Generous pension schemes

Cycle to Work scheme

Development programmes including mentoring

Up to 70% off book purchases

Qualifications

• Proven marketing experience at Marketing Manager or Senior Marketing Manager level.
• Strong project management skills and first-rate communication abilities.
• Experience in the children’s book industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver industry-leading marketing campaigns for key books and brands.
• Lead digital marketing strategy and the launch of new acquisitions.
• Work collaboratively within a creative and enthusiastic team.

Skills

Marketing experience

Project management

Digital expertise

Creativity

Strategic thinking

Job description

The successful candidate will have significant proven marketing experience at Marketing Manager or Senior Marketing Manager, ideally within or relevant to the children’s book industry. Creativity is vital, married with strategic thinking, commercial awareness, digital expertise and a firm focus on results. You will be a strong project manager and a first‑rate communicator. Ambitious, innovative and resourceful, you will be buzzing with ideas and the knowledge of how to translate them into action while inspiring the team around you.

Hachette Children’s Group is one of the UK’s largest children’s publishers, our mission is to make it easy for children and young people everywhere to access books and see themselves reflected. We aim to maximise our readers’ life chances by inspiring a lifelong love of reading, publishing books for every stage of their journey to adulthood from Enid Blyton to Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper. Hachette Children’s Group is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 10 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.

Responsibilities

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a creative, strategic, experienced Senior Marketing Manager to join the Hachette Children’s Group multi‑award‑winning marketing team. This is a key senior role in the team, with responsibility for delivering industry‑leading, commercially effective marketing campaigns for some of HCG’s biggest books and brands. You will lead the marketing department’s digital marketing strategy and output, as well as taking a specific leadership role in the launch of new acquisitions. We offer a creative environment within an enthusiastic and collaborative team. There is significant opportunity for professional development within the role and, as part of Hachette, you will benefit from an extensive training library and development schemes such as mentoring.

The role will be based at our London or Sheffield office, with a blend of in‑office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Our commitment: Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio‑economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org.

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)
• Private medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• 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‑range training library
• Development programmes (including mentoring)
• Up to 70% off book purchases
• A charity bookshelf
• 12 Staff‑led employee networks that are voluntary, including AgeWise, Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks
• Season ticket loans
• And much more!