Closing date: 28 November 2024
Salary: £35,000+ dependent on experience (+bonus +benefits)
Are you an experienced publicist? Work on publicity for a wide range of genres in this role, from crime and thriller debuts and brilliant book club fiction to celebrity-led titles and headline grabbing non-fiction.
Four-time winner of the Publisher of the Year award, Little, Brown Book Group is one of the most successful and dynamic publishers in the UK. We publish as wide a range of titles as anyone in the industry, and pride ourselves on the quality, variety and diversity of our publishing output.
On Sphere, we publish some of the world’s biggest brand-name novelists, including Sunday Times bestselling authors Colleen Hoover and Ali Hazelwood, and an array of bestselling non-fiction. Recent bestselling launches across the list include The Striker by Ana Haung, The Power in You by Rachaele Hambleton, and Dancing in the Rain, the hugely inspiring memoir by Strictly star Amy Dowden.
What you'll be doing
From acquisition to publication, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing integrated PR campaigns across print, digital, broadcast and radio, raising author profiles and planning author events (virtual or physical), presenting PR plans in-house, providing ongoing reporting to key stakeholders in editorial and sales, and maintaining excellent working relationships with authors and agents.
Who we are looking for
You will be an experienced publicist with a proven track-record of creating commercially impactful and consumer-focused fiction and non-fiction campaigns. Organised, confident and imaginative, with excellent contacts across the media, you will be comfortable managing multiple campaigns simultaneously. This role requires an ability to prioritise tasks, work calmly under pressure, be a strong team player, and possess exceptional communication skills. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Press Officer looking for the next step, or a Publicity Manager ready for a new challenge.
What we offer
* 28 annual leave days per year (+ bank holidays)
* 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
* Season ticket loans
* And much more!
The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, 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.
We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.
Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.
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