Introduction to the role

A fantastic opportunity to kickstart your career in events and gain marketing skills across all channels. You’ll work with the International Events Manager to support activities including conferences, webinars and training, in person and online. It also involves supporting the international marketing and sales team to create impactful campaigns that help deliver revenue growth and contribute to the division’s strategic objectives.

Key tasks and accountabilities

• Work with International Events Manager to deliver marketing plan for Collins International product lists.

• Logistical and administrative support for in-person events, including organising delivery of materials, producing designed assets for promotion, liaising with sales team to ensure smooth running and successful events.

• Assist International Events Manager with regular webinar activity for international schools, creating promotional assets, co-host and manage session activity, edit recordings and run reports to relay information back to team.

• Contribute to international schools marketing campaign activity, by proof-reading and updating marketing collateral for international markets, collaborating with wider team on social media initiatives, report on key marketing trends and new ideas.

• Produce sales tools to aid promotion of new publishing such as cribsheets, author and product videos and presentations.

• Support team with administrative tasks including minute taking in key meetings, organising office storage and events stock, manage correspondence of general international inboxes, maintaining book displays, updating order forms and sales tools, as well as any other ad-hoc admin tasks as required.

• Develop and distribute monthly e-newsletter to international suppliers and termly newsletter for partner schools.

Skills required

• Good IT skills including Word, Excel and Powerpoint

• Experience of design systems preferable – e.g. Canva/Photoshop/Adobe

• Experience of using social media and email marketing platform preferable

• Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise and work independently

• Use initiative to develop new ideas and solve problems

• A clear, accurate writing style and the ability to produce fluent and persuasive copy

• A proactive and can-do attitude, with the ability to remain calm under pressure

• A team player with excellent communication and people skills

• Ability to quickly get up to speed with new digital marketing tools

• Excellent attention to detail

• Self-motivated

• Understanding of or interest in international schools’ market

  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 

If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to our Recruitment Manager at 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.