Our 4th Estate and William Collins team are looking for a Marketing Intern to work on and support innovative campaigns. The Marketing Intern 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 work on some of the social and online channels within the division. This is a 1 month fixed term contract.

4th Estate and William Collins is home some of world’s best loved novelists, from Hilary Mantel and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Elizabeth Day and Jon McGregor, bestselling non-fiction from Max Hastings and Professor Brian Cox, an award-winning cookery list from Nigel Slater and Anna Jones and exciting new voices like Jia Tolentino, Monica Heisey and Yomi Adegoke.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of creative media and digital plans so that all activities are on time and within budget

• Provide general administrative support for the department including social media scheduling and monitoring, working with our blogger programme and coordinating blog tours, helping with digital campaigns and administration, and helping out with minute taking in relevant Marketing meetings

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

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

• Creating creative social campaign plans around seasonal and national moments, as well as individual authors/titles

• Designing assets for social campaigns

• 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 and Skills Required

• A passion for literary fiction and non-fiction

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

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

• 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

• Photoshop and InDesign skills

• Innovative and creative

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

• Enthusiastic and passionate

• A strong eye for detail

• Fantastic organisation skills

Benefits 

• Hybrid working model

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

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

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

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

• Virtual GP and eyecare vouchers 

• We're a certified Carbon Neutral company 

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

• Subsidised canteen and retail discounts 

• Onsite prayer room 

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/

If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to recruitment@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.