Senior publicity manager

7 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Hachette UK Full time

Closing date: 27th June 2024

Salary: £38,000+ dependent on experience and location (+bonus +benefits)

Location: This role can be based at our London or our Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior publicity manager to join our award-winning and dynamic Communications team, to cover a period of parental leave.

The Orion Publishing Group, a division of Hachette UK, publishes a wide range of commercial, literary, and award-winning popular fiction and non-fiction and is home to bestselling authors such as Sir Ian Rankin, Adam Kay, Michael Connelly, Cathy Bramley, Veronica Henry, Santa Montefiore, Clare Chambers, Michael Palin, Malala Yousafzai, Gillian Flynn, Candice Carty-Williams and many more.

In 2021 we won the Publisher of the Year award at the British Book Awards, and our award-winning Communications team has a proud track record of creating high-impact, creative, sales-driving campaigns to help bring our books to readers.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside a multi-disciplined, award-winning team responsible for a wide variety of publishing. You'd be working in a creative and dynamic environment, utilising a wide variety of essential publicity skills to reach the widest possible readership.

What you'll be doing

As Senior Publicity Manager you will be responsible for leading and implementing sales-driving and profile-building publicity campaigns, fully integrating all aspects of the media and events spaces to positively raise the profile and awareness of the author and book across our wide range of imprints. You will be working directly with some of the industry's biggest brand fiction authors, exciting debuts, celebrity-led titles, music, humour, memoir, and headline grabbing non-fiction. You'll be required to confidently present plans to colleagues in-house and externally to authors and agents, regularly updating key stakeholders on progress, as well as offering exceptional author care and maintaining excellent relationships with authors and agents. Who we're looking forWe are looking for a passionate and driven Senior Publicity Manager to lead on campaigns and strategy for a range of Orion's key launches. You will have demonstrable experience as a publicist with a proven track record of creating industry-leading driving publicity campaigns across fiction and non-fiction that result in sales. A love of literary publishing as well as experience working with brand authors is desired. Alongside demonstrable PR experience, the ideal candidate will be extremely efficient, have a broad range of contacts across the media and events, and bring initiative, creativity, and passion to the role. The ability to multi-task, work calmly under pressure and be a strong team player are also vital. What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

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 schemesRent deposit loans2 community days per yearSummer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)Retail discounts through Hachette rewardsCycle to Work schemeEye care vouchersWide-ranging training libraryDevelopment programmes (including mentoring)Up to 70% off book purchasesA charity bookshelf12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networksSeason ticket loansAnd much more 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.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

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