Senior Marketing Manager, Bloomsbury Children's - 13 month FTC

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children's publishing company is seeking a Senior Marketing Manager for a 13-month contract. The role involves creating and managing marketing campaigns for children's literature, collaborating with various stakeholders, and managing budgets. Candidates should have a passion for children's books and experience in marketing, with the ability to multi-task effectively. This hybrid position offers a salary of £42,000 per annum and excellent benefits, contributing to a supportive work environment.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Flexible Fridays

AXA Healthcare Plan

Learning & Development opportunities

Season Ticket Loan

Work Anywhere Fortnight

Qualifications

• Demonstrable passion for children's books required.
• Experience with authors and media agencies is beneficial.
• Strong organizational skills needed for project management.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage integrated marketing campaigns for children's books.
• Drive brand strategies for assigned authors and properties.
• Collaborate with internal teams on marketing initiatives.

Skills

Experience in marketing children's brands

Line-management experience

Excellent inter-personal skills

Understanding of marketing best practices

Ability to multi-task

Job description

Job Overview

Bloomsbury Children's is looking for a creative and ambitious Senior Marketing Manager to join our team for a 13‑month fixed term contract. Reporting to the Children's Marketing Director, the Senior Marketing Manager will create and implement integrated marketing campaigns across the children's list and will manage a junior member of the marketing team.

Responsibilities

• Create, implement, manage and analyse campaigns which use the full marketing mix to drive sales of our children's books.
• Act as a key voice and driver in the strategy for allocated brand and author properties.
• Contribute to conversations and drive thinking around wider publishing strategy, list shape and acquisitions.
• Proactively pursue marketing opportunities with brand partners, media partners and key stakeholders to increase brand visibility.
• Support a culture of collaboration, working closely with our publicity, sales and editorial teams.
• Build, develop and maintain excellent working relationships with authors, agents and publishing partners.
• Understand the importance of social media and digital activity as part of campaigns, working with the internal digital teams to drive children's priorities and to create holistic campaign strategies across online/social and print.
• Manage individual title marketing budgets and work with the Marketing Director to strategically set budgets for titles and to adjust reactively as opportunities arise.
• Line‑manage the Children's Marketing Assistant.

Qualifications

• Experience and knowledge of marketing children's brands to family audiences, and a demonstrable passion for children's books.
• Line‑management experience key but not essential.
• Experience of working with internal and external stakeholders such as authors, editors, freelancer designers/animators, media agencies.
• Full knowledge and understanding of the marketing mix, including digital and traditional advertising, catalogues, promotional activity and research.
• Experience of working successfully with third parties on innovative marketing partnerships and initiatives.
• Ability to multi‑task and work on several different projects simultaneously.
• Excellent inter‑personal, presentation and organisational skills, in addition to creative flair.
• Strong knowledge of current marketing best practices, trends and opportunities across on/off‑line platforms.

Company Overview

Bloomsbury is the home to many bestselling children's brands and authors across picture books, middle‑grade, YA and graphic novels, such as Harry Potter, Katherine Rundell, Tom Percival, Michael Rosen, Lex Croucher, and Kalynn Bayron. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury's Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names. Read Our Story for how it all began. Bloomsbury is committed to creating a working environment that stimulates creativity and collaboration, is respectful of difference, is inclusive and ethical in its practice, and promotes well‑being. We are determined to nurture and develop our employees to reach their highest potential, and we know that our success is down to the passion, commitment and hard work of our talented people. We recognise the urgent need to attract and support applicants from all backgrounds and identities to become part of the global publishing industry, allowing diverse voices to reflect and shape our culture and society.

Job Details

The role is a full‑time, temporary 13‑month fixed‑term contract position to start mid‑late March, depending on availability. Salary: £42,000 p.a. depending on experience. The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid‑working pattern of 2 days office‑based / 3 days home‑based (or fully office‑based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are Monday and Tuesday.

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the 'APPLY NOW' button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 on Monday 5th January 2026. For best results, please use a desktop to apply as some mobile browsers may not fully support the application portal. Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications.

Benefits

• Hybrid working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)
• 25 days holiday
• 3.5 days Christmas company holiday
• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Work Anywhere Fortnight – For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
• Season Ticket Loan
• Learning & Development – Free access to LinkedIn Learning, BookMachine Campus, InRehearsal & IPG Skills Hub
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• Ride to Work Scheme
• Peppy Health App
• In‑house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• EAP Advice and Counselling
• Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi‑Faith) and Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources