Senior Marketing Manager, Bloomsbury Children's

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

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Children's is looking for a creative and ambitious Senior Marketing Manager to join our team for a 13-month fixed term contract.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Marketing Manager, or a Senior Marketing Manager with a passion for children's books to take a step-up or across in their career.

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.

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.

The role

• 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.
   

Knowledge, skills and experience 

• 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/offline platforms.

Additional information

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.

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Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

Bloomsbury Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

Working Pattern

• Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

• 25 days holiday
• 3.5 days Christmas company holiday

 Other Benefits

• 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

For additional benefits see below

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.  

The Company

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.

Please read more on our Missions and Values here.

Please read our environmental policy here.

Our Benefits

Staff Discount on Books

Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP)

Bike to Work

Employee Testimonials

Here's what some of our employees had to say about joining Bloomsbury:

"It's a friendly team, I feel part of a community and there's such a breadth and variety of publishing"
Marketing Executive, Academic

"There is a passion for books and authors. People want to read and that comes from the top"
Commissioning Editor, Special Interest

"Bloomsbury has a strong International outlook, it's good to be part of a global publishing team."
Intern, Education

To read more about what it's like to work for us please click here.

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