One More Chapter is an innovative, award-winning publishing division of HarperCollins UK. They are the home of global bestsellers with a remit to be at the forefront of all things digital. Combining market-leading digital publishing with the commercial expertise of HarperCollins, the vision for One More Chapter is to close the gap between author, publisher and reader; reacting speedily to reading trends and publishing the best in commercial fiction across all formats – audio, eBook and print.

We are looking for a new member to join our small but dynamic team and we would love to find a passionate commercial reader who is creative and highly organized to provide campaign and administrative support to our marketing and publicity activity. From day one you will be assisting the Senior Marketing Executive and Head of Marketing Strategy with campaigns designed to drive profitable sales of titles, developing and strengthening key author brands, and successfully launching debuts. You will provide significant administrative support, ensuring the smooth running of all marketing campaigns, creating press releases and supporting PR activity. As well as, assisting with the division’s social media and newsletter accounts and influencer relationships.

With our startup mentality there will be the scope to innovate and put forward new ideas. This is a fast-paced fiction list and you will be part of a team that works flexibly and has a lot of fun along the way!

Core responsibilities

Social media and community:

• You will assist with the day-to-day activity for OMC’s social media channels, implement the overall social strategy as outlined by the Senior Marketing Executive and run regular reports on the impact of our channels

• Feed ideas into the social strategy for campaigns, seasonal activity, reader, bookseller and influencer engagement, championing the growth of One More Chapter’s community through creativity and passion

• Engage closely with our network of bloggers, booktokkers and bookstagrammers to grow our community and build early reviews for our titles

Publicity:

• Sending out press releases and book mailings, logging reviews and helping to ensure that all PR databases are kept up to date

• Supporting on festival and local media outreach (following database training) and supporting on regional appearances.

Content Creation:

• You will assist the Senior Marketing Executive for One More Chapter social channels, including scheduling, creating and reporting content trends

• Responsible for creating and uploading suite of assets for all Amazon pages, events and author materials

Email Marketing:

• You will be responsible for implementing the consumer, author and blogger email marketing strategy as directed by the Head of Marketing and Senior Marketing Executive, as well as monitoring and reporting on campaigns

Admin/Time Management

• Provide general administrative support for the division including creating key retailer presentations, helping with digital administration, assisting on key author presentations, raising purchase orders and tracking spend and minute taking in relevant marketing meetings

• Manage the divisional enquiries email and dashboards for partner platforms such as Cision The Bookseller, NetGalley, The Reading Agency and more

Skills required

• Content creation skills and ability to create eye-catching assets via Canva, Photoshop, photography, or your preferred design suite

• Experience using a range of social media channels

• Advanced MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint

• Remains calm under pressure, able to work at pace and to tight deadlines

• Happy to work independently as well as part of a team

• Innovative, not afraid to do things differently

• Excellent attention to detail

• Proactive, strategic thinker

• Organised and able to manage own time and workload efficiently

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to express technical and creative vision and meeting minutes clearly

• Excellent organisational skills and experience of working to deadlines

Desirable Experience

• A passion for commercial fiction – from women’s fiction to crime and thriller, historical to fantasy and romance 

• 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, but is not strictly necessary

Benefits

• Hybrid working model (3+ days in the office plus core hours) 

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

• Summer hours

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

• Private healthcare cover and life assurance 

• 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 

• Rent Relocation Loan

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

• 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, 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 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.