Our Mills & Boon Marketing team are looking for a Marketing Assistant on a 12 month fixed term contract to work on and support innovative campaigns for the leading brand in romance publishing. The Marketing Assistant will provide campaign and administrative support to help the marketing team deliver measurable campaigns in line with the divisional strategy. They will also have the opportunity to feed ideas into, create content for and manage some of the social and online channels within the division.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of creative media and digital plans

• Provide general administrative support for the department including social media scheduling and monitoring, managing the Mills & Boon blogger programme and coordinating blog tours, helping with digital campaigns and administration.

• Liaise with key stakeholders within the division, Publicity and Editorial, to ensure they have the information they need

• Work closely with other members of the marketing team, and manage elements of monthly campaigns where relevant

• Develop creative social campaign plans to be implemented across our channels (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Stories), including video content

• Identify opportunities for reactive marketing around seasonal and national moments, as well as authors/titles, and a creative flair to capture eye catching and appealing organic imagery for social

•  Create content and manage the Mills & Boon blog, working closely with the global acquisitions team to deliver this

• Work closely with the wider marketing communications team to ensure that the comms output is single minded and joined up

• Assist the editor with day to day editorial work including prelim materials, metadata for the series books, compiling draft cover copy and assisting with the scheduling of M&B series books on a monthly basis

• Support the entire Mills & Boon marketing and editorial team on activities ranging from author care to website maintenance, social media management, direct-to-consumer marketing, and author campaigns

Key Skills/Experience

• A passion for commercial fiction – especially for romance and women’s fiction

• Experience of managing, developing or creating a social and online presence, even if it is your own

• Publishing or marketing experience would be a bonus, whether that’s work experience, experience as a bookseller or as part of a publishing society

• A creative flair: experience with Adobe Creative Suite (particularly Photoshop and InDesign) is preferable but not essential

• Enthusiasm! We want someone who wants to grab this opportunity with both hands and is keen to work in the publishing industry

• A team player with excellent communication and people skills

• Innovative and creative

• A digital native or someone who embeds digital into all they do

• Passionate about books and publishing

• Helpful and flexible

• A strong eye for detail

• Fantastic organisation skills

• Resilient and calm

Please note that earlier applications may be prioritised.

OUR VALUES TELL A S.T.O.R.Y

STORIES. We believe in the power of great publishing. From fiction, children’s and non-fiction to education and reference, our authors and content are at the heart of everything we do

TEAM. We help each other, work collaboratively, behave with integrity and always strive to communicate in a timely, open, honest and fair manner.

OUT AS WELL AS IN. We aim to lead the industry by looking out as well as in. Through observation of the marketplace, the consumer and the competitive environment, we gain a better understanding of our business.

RESOURCEFULLNESS. We support smart risk-takers and innovators, learning from experience without blame and being both curious and willing to change.

YOU. We embrace difference and champion diversity of thought and action. We treat each other with respect and enjoy what we do.

The Company

HarperCollins is one of the UK’s foremost, diverse and innovative multi-platform publishers. We publish a wide range of books, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction, to block-busting thrillers and from fantasy literature to children’s literature and enduring classics. We also publish a great selection of non-fiction titles, including history, celebrity memoirs, biographies, popular science, dictionaries, maps, reference titles and education books, and our digital business is thriving. With nearly 200 years of history, we publish some of the world’s foremost authors, from Nobel prize-winners to worldwide bestsellers. In addition, we also publish the works of Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis.