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About the Role

As a Senior Marketing Manager at Penguin Michael Joseph, you will lead ambitious, high-profile marketing campaigns for a diverse list of non-fiction and fiction titles. You will act as a senior voice within the team, shaping publishing strategy and collaborating with authors, agents, and internal departments to maximize sales and audience growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and delivery of integrated marketing campaigns for frontlist and bestselling backlist titles.
• Develop creative, audience-first marketing strategies based on consumer insights and market trends.
• Manage marketing budgets to ensure campaigns meet commercial objectives.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with authors, agents, publishers, and external partners.
• Identify partnership, influencer, and brand opportunities to expand campaign reach.
• Collaborate across Editorial, Publicity, Sales, and Design departments to champion titles.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading large-scale marketing campaigns in book publishing or related creative industries.
• Proven experience working with high-profile authors, talent, or brands.
• Experience managing marketing budgets and delivering commercially successful campaigns.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong commercial awareness and an audience-first marketing approach.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative mindset with the confidence to influence across teams.
• Experience working across both non-fiction and fiction titles is preferred.

Skills

• Strategic marketing planning
• Budget management
• Stakeholder management
• Campaign management
• Commercial awareness
• Project management
• Communication and presentation

Location

• United Kingdom

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• c.£45,000

Benefits

• Bonus
• Benefits package

About the Company

• Penguin Michael Joseph is a publisher of commercially successful authors and brands including Jamie Oliver, Marian Keyes, and Dr Julie Smith.
• The company specializes in women’s fiction, crime, thriller, fantasy, romance, cookery, memoir, and lifestyle books.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.
• We encourage candidates to request reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process.