An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the British Book Award-winning marketing team at 4th Estate and William Collins to work on and support innovative campaigns for some of the most exciting new literary fiction and non-fiction. We are home to internationally acclaimed and bestselling authors such as Hilary Mantel, Elizabeth Day, Max Hastings, Yomi Adegoke, Monica Heisey, Daniel Kahneman, Nigel Slater, Sahil Bloom, Christina Lamb and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie alongside some of the most exciting new voices in literature. Recent campaign highlights include Asako Yuzuki’s Butter, Elizabeth Day’s One of Us, Oisín McKenna’s Evenings and Weekends, Coco Mellors’ Blue Sisters, Andrew Lownie’s Entitled and Jung Chang’s Fly, Wild Swans.

Reporting to the Marketing Director and working closely with the marketing team, the Marketing Assistant will provide campaign and administrative support to help the marketing team deliver creative, effective and measurable campaigns. They will also feed ideas into, create content for, and manage some of the social and online channels within the division.

Key Tasks and Accountabilities

• Provide general administrative support for the department including coordinating proof schedules, producing the divisional catalogues, helping with digital administration, assisting on key author presentations, raising purchase orders, tracking spend and minute taking in relevant divisional meetings

• Work with colleagues to ensure that campaigns make full use of online marketing opportunities. Maintain and contribute to divisional social channels and plan and execute regular emails to subscribers across our lists.

• Support retail activity, ensuring the sales department have all the marketing communications materials they need.

• Working alongside other members of the marketing team, manage elements of author campaigns where relevant.

• Support a culture of collaboration, working closely with the wider marketing communications team to ensure that the comms output is single minded and joined up.

Experience Required

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

Skills Required

• A passion for literary fiction and non-fiction

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

• A team player with excellent communication and people skills

• Innovative and creative

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

• A good eye for compelling visual communication

 Benefits

• Hybrid working model (3 days in the office)

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays (option to buy and sell holiday days)

• Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave

• Private healthcare cover and life assurance

• Summer Hours 

• Free access to HeadSpace, employee assistance programme (24 hour helpline), mental health first aiders, and a wellbeing portal

• Season ticket loans (from day 1 for entry level) and cycle to work scheme

• Relocation Rent Support Loan 

• Employee networks: HC All In (open forum), Elevate (for ethnic minority colleagues), HarperParents, Menopause at Work, Pride at HC, Social Mobility Network and Neurodiversity at Work

• Unlimited training on our Learning and Development portal, management courses (up to MA level) and mentoring programmes

• Virtual GP and eyecare vouchers

• Gym membership discount

• Onsite physiotherapy (London only)

• Charitable donation matching and 2 volunteering days

• We're a certified Carbon Neutral company

• Green Electric/Hybrid Car Benefit Scheme (salary sacrifice)

• With Trees for Life we plant a tree in the Highlands of Scotland for every permanent hire

• Free e-books and audiobooks, digital newspaper subscriptions and discounts on books

• Subsidised canteen and retail discounts

• Onsite prayer room

At HarperCollins, we value authenticity and integrity in our recruitment process. To ensure a fair and accurate evaluation of all applications, we ask that all responses to assessment questions reflect your own thoughts, experiences, and capabilities.  This allows us to fairly assess your knowledge, skills, and experience to determine how they align with the role. We value diverse perspectives and genuine contributions, even if answers are not perfect. The use of AI tools or external assistance to generate responses is discouraged unless explicitly permitted for specific tasks.

If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to stephanie.jemmett@harpercollins.co.uk with subject heading ‘Vacancy Query’ plus the job title and we will aim to get back to you within 5 working days.

Please note, if you are interested in the role you would need to submit your application via Applied. We do not accept email applications.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking internships or entry level positions. For more information visit  https://www.btbs.org/