Marketing Manager (12 month FTC)

Are you a creative and confident book marketer with experience of delivering impactful campaigns and seamless communication? Award-winning publisher Quercus Books are seeking a capable and energised Marketing Manager (FTC) to join their team at a busy and exciting time.

Reporting to a senior member of the marketing team, you will be responsible for planning and delivering a varied allocation of campaigns, including established brands and debut voices. You'll play an active role in the marketing strategy for Arcadia, Quercus's SFF imprint, and work with our energetic and supportive team to deliver organic social and newsletter strategies.

You'll enjoy huge variety in the role, from creating content to running impactful digital advertising and briefing designers on eye-catching creatives for online and offline book promotion. Alongside your trade marketing workload you will provide support on our Laurence King list, gathering feedback from stakeholders and managing admin processes efficiently.

You'll succeed in this role if you are skilled at blending creativity and strategy to connect books with readers through online and offline channels. You'll be a confident communicator, able to deliver clear, energised campaign updates on email and in person to authors and internal stakeholders. You'll be very well organised, able to juggle multiple competing deadlines and deliver campaigns within budget, and proactive in your problem-solving. This role would suit an experienced Marketing Executive or Officer looking to take their next step, or a Marketing Manager seeking a new opportunity in a dynamic publishing house.

Quercus is a young, dynamic, award-winning publisher, known as a hit-maker that regularly finds books that surprise and delight readers. We are international in our outlook - almost 40% of our authors are from 25 countries other than the UK and US - and have eight distinctive imprints that publish an exciting and diverse range of authors, from commercial fiction and non-fiction to future classics, books in translation and stunning full-colour books for students and professionals. We're home to established bestsellers such as Elly Griffiths, Peter May, Beth O'Leary and Damien Lewis, as well as newer voices including Layla F. Saad, Candice Brathwaite and Amy Jeffs, and what draws all our publishing together is the magic 'quirk' in Quercus: a commitment to independence, flair, warmth and creativity.

The culture at Quercus is second to none, and you'll have the support of our creative and energetic marketing team as well as our expert colleagues across the business in editorial, sales and publicity.

Quercus is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 12 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds., 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 junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year (+ bank holidays)


• Private medical insurance


• Generous pension schemes


• Rent deposit loans


• 2 community days per year


• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)


• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards


• Cycle to Work scheme


• Eye care vouchers


• Wide-ranging training library


• Development programmes (including mentoring)


• Up to 70% off book purchases


• A charity bookshelf


• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks


• Season ticket loans


• And much more!


This role can be based at our London, or Sheffield office, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Our commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.