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About the Role
The Press Officer will devise and implement publicity campaigns for distributed titles, working within the Marketing and Publicity Division and alongside the Simon Global Sales team. This role involves building internal and external relationships to raise the profile of Simon Global titles, drive awareness, and support sales growth across the UK market.
Responsibilities
- Devise and implement a diverse range of publicity campaigns for distributed titles.
- Develop and deliver imaginative, effective, and high-impact publicity campaigns.
- Raise the profile of Simon Global titles, driving awareness and supporting sales growth across the UK market.
- Devise publicity strategies and execute campaigns across the Simon Global list.
- Take ownership of the publicity schedule.
- Identify titles with the greatest PR potential in the UK using commercial awareness and editorial judgement.
- Build strong international relationships.
- Manage expectations with authors and agents.
- Ensure clear, proactive communication to deliver successful campaigns.
- Allocate publicity resources across the Simon Global list.
- Prioritize campaigns and maximize opportunities for UK audiences using sound commercial judgement.
Requirements
- Enthusiastic, proactive, and highly motivated.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong understanding of inventive and strategically driven publicity campaigns.
- Ability to identify the right audiences to maximise coverage, drive sales, and deliver against objectives.
- Highly organised and adaptable.
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities and delivering several campaigns simultaneously.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Confidently balance competing deadlines.
- Established media contacts.
- Committed to developing and maintaining strong relationships with journalists, producers, influencers, and serial editors across print, broadcast, digital, and social media.
- Ability to work independently.
- May be required to work non-office hours to support authors at publicity events.
- Must have the legal right to work in the UK.
- Cannot require visa sponsorship.
Skills
- Publicity campaign management
- Strategic planning
- Media relations
- Journalist relations
- Producer relations
- Influencer relations
- Serial editor relations
- Commercial awareness
- Editorial judgement
- Communication (written and verbal)
- Organization
- Adaptability
- Time management
- Prioritization
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite (potential non-office hours)
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- Not specified
Salary/Compensations
- Starting from £30,000
Benefits
- Eligibility for benefits plans of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd.
About the Company
- Simon & Schuster is a global leader in general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and non-fiction for readers of all ages, in all printed, digital and audio formats.
- Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards.
- It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Adams Media, Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio.
- It has international companies in Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom.
- It brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories.
- For more information visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com.
Equal Opportunity
- Simon & Schuster UK is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity and gender expression.
- At Simon & Schuster UK, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all.