Marketing Manager, Penguin Michael Joseph

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Are you a creative and strategic marketing professional ready for a new opportunity at a leading commercial fiction and non-fiction book publisher?

Penguin Michael Joseph is searching for a dynamic and proactive Marketing Manager to join the team. This is a newly created position where you can take full ownership of your campaigns and really make your mark. We are excited to meet with candidates with relevant experience from outside of the publishing industry, as well as those with existing publishing experience.

About the team

Penguin Michael Joseph is a leading commercial fiction and non-fiction imprint of Penguin Random House, publishing best-selling titles across an array of genres such as crime and thriller, romance, cookery, memoir and lifestyle. We are responsible for launching and building the world's most popular and commercially successful authors and brands, including Jamie Oliver, Dawn French, Nadiya Hussain, Marian Keyes, Jojo Moyes, Stephen Fry and Mrs Hinch.

The role

The role will be responsible for planning and executing best-in-class marketing campaigns for Penguin Michael Joseph, across both fiction and non-fiction books. You'll have your finger on the pulse when it comes to popular culture and consumer trends and be comfortable executing multi-platform media strategies. You will build strong working relationships with colleagues, authors and agents to provide the highest level of author care, ensuring that the campaigns for our books are market-leading and ultimately drive sales.

Key responsibilities:

1. Develop, coordinate and deliver successful marketing campaigns across a diverse range of titles that drive audience engagement and discovery.
2. Be plugged in to consumer trends in publishing with a finger on the pulse of new and emerging platforms and communities.
3. Brief designers to produce best-in-class assets and marketing materials that support campaign goals.
4. Coordinate with relevant divisional departments including sales, editorial, publicity and international teams.
5. Manage budget for own campaigns and continually review in line with expected and actual sales revenues.
6. Take a data-driven approach, analysing campaigns and their impact on sales, apply learnings and communicate successes and challenges effectively across the wider business and to stakeholders.
7. Help create pitch documents for new authors and contribute to new acquisitions.
8. Represent division, marketing and the value of publishers at external meetings.

What you'll bring

Essential criteria:

1. Experience designing and executing innovative and effective marketing campaigns, either in book publishing or an adjacent industry.
2. First-class communication skills with ability to establish great working relationships with all stakeholders including colleagues, authors and agents.
3. You're interested in popular culture and consumer trends and can incorporate effectively into your marketing campaigns.
4. A proactive and can-do attitude, you'll enjoy solving problems and always keep an open mind.
5. Ability to analyse effectiveness of your campaigns, taking a strategic approach to apply learnings.
6. You can work at pace, juggling multiple priorities and deadlines.

Preferred criteria:

1. A passion for non-fiction book publishing including lifestyle, food or drink.

Application instructions

Please apply with your CV and cover letter outlining why you are the right candidate for the role by 11:59pm on Sunday 6th April.

As part of your cover letter, please tell us in no more than 250 words which marketing campaign has recently caught your attention and how it captured the imaginations of its target audience.

Salary

Circa £33,000 base salary dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

What you can expect from us

Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

• Financial - income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance.
• Wellbeing - healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks.
• Lifestyle - enhanced parental leave, tech scheme, free and discounted books.

Hybrid working

While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role you will need to attend the office three days per week - Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

About Penguin

We're the UK's largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you'll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

The recruitment process

You can read about our recruitment process at https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/how-we-hire/

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. The essential criteria for this role are listed as part of the 'What you'll bring' section. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: London

City: London

Postal Code: SW11 7BW

Job ID: 278613

Date: 20 Mar 2025