Senior Marketing Manager, Penguin Press

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom 2019 Full time

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 Senior Marketing Manager to join the Penguin Press division to work on campaigns for some of our biggest books. This opportunity is offered on a 12-month fixed term contract from November 2024 covering a period of parental leave.

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 nine, 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 can expect to be working on campaigns including Bill Gates, Naomi Klein, Gary Stevenson and Serhii Plokhy.

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.

This role will also be responsible for line management of one, perhaps two, junior staff members.

What you'll bring

We'll need you to have broad non-fiction marketing experience to thrive in this role. As a senior member of the team, you'll be driving the process forward, asking the right questions and working truly independently. For that reason, you'll likely be working at Marketing Manager level already or perhaps be a more senior staff member looking for a different challenge.

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
  • Have line management experience

How to apply

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

Please apply with a CV and cover letter by 11:59pm on Sunday 8th September, telling us about a non-fiction book you've read that you would recommend to a friend.

About Penguin

We're the UK's largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you'll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

Salary: c. £50,000 plus bonus and benefits.

Competitive benefits package: Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

  • Financial – income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance
  • Wellbeing - healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks
  • Lifestyle – enhanced parental leave, tech scheme

For our full benefits list please visit:

Hybrid working: We're experimenting with a hybrid way of working that suits the needs of each team. While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role, we expect you'll be in our London office 2 days a week but due to the nature of marketing, there will be moments when you'll need to attend the office more often, and there will be an element of evening and weekend work to fit around authors' schedules. We will discuss this with you through the recruitment process.

The recruitment process: You can read about our recruitment process at

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview. The minimum criteria for the role is as follows:

  • Experience working in book marketing across a range of non-fiction subjects
  • Independently delivered marketing campaigns that directly resulted in sales
  • Impeccably organised
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: London

City: london

Postal Code: SW11 7BW

Job ID: 273053

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