Marcomms Assistant, Children's (2024)

Overview of the Role

As Marcomms Assistant you will support the division’s Marcomms team, assisting with campaigns

designed to drive profitable sales of titles, developing and strengthening key author brands, and

successfully launching debuts. You will provide significant administrative support, ensuring the smooth

running of all marketing and publicity campaigns, as well as providing creative input where necessary,

helping to develop highly creative consumer marketing and publicity campaigns across physical, digital and audio products.

This role is ideally suited to an organised and detail-focused candidate who has bags of creativity, initiative and energy. They will have a keen interest in children’s publishing and be excited at the prospect of applying creative flair throughout their day-to-day work, ensuring that our campaigns continue to stand out at the forefront of a competitive market.

Key Tasks and Accountabilities:

• Assisting the Marketing and Communications Director with diary management and daily ad-hoc tasks to ensure the smooth running of the MarComms Department

• Supporting the MarComms team with general administrative tasks including scheduling meetings, setting up monthly M&P planning documents, fulfilling competition prizes, POS mailings, monitoring the general inbox and dealing with enquiries and team schedules

• Support the implementation of marketing and publicity campaign initiatives that achieve impact and cut through across a range of channels including radio, print, mobile, social, email, digital, video, and events.

• Create and schedule social media posts and provide support to the Marketing team across all HCCB social media channels

• Under the supervision of the Marketing and Brand Campaigns Director, build, test and send the HCCB newsletter, in time owning the email schedule and email reporting

• Manage the successful distribution of review mailers both in house and via the mailing warehouse

• Compiling monthly bookseller submissions and bookseller supplement submissions

• Manage requests for books and be across ordering books from the warehouse for press and marketing comps

• Assist the wider PR team in supplying assets and key publishing information to press partners

• Assisting key authors as required sending post or arranging couriers, cars, accommodation etc

• Raising PO’s and logging invoices and managing budget spreadsheet across Marketing and PR to ensure that all administration enabling control and visibility of spend is up-to-date and accurate, including processing expenses and setting up new suppliers.

• Look after and logging fan mail

• Oversee and maintain database of key journalist contacts

• File and log daily press cuttings

• Compile weekly Books in the News

• Design and oversee the seasonal publicity catalogue and oversee bespoke seasonal mailings e.g. Easter, Valentine’s Day and Christmas

• Assisting with updates, maintenance and creation of new content, including landing pages, seasonal and competition pages for the HCCB website

• Helping to create presentations, when necessary, in particular for company highlights and for author pre-publication meetings.

Monthly submission of content to World Book Day website

Skills Required:

• Proven administrative experience

• Ability to communicate confidently, both in writing and verbally

• Excellent spelling and grammar

• Computer skills: Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• Excellent organisational skills

• Effective at multi-tasking

• Able to manage deadlines

• A love of children’s books

  Benefits

  • Hybrid working model (3 days in the office)

  • 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

  • Private healthcare cover and life assurance

  • Summer Hours

  • Free access to HeadSpace, employee assistance programme (24 hour helpline), mental health first aiders, and a wellbeing portal

  • Relocation Rent Support Loan

  • Employee networks: HC All In (open forum), Elevate (for ethnic minority colleagues), HarperParents, Menopause at Work, Pride at HC, Social Mobility Network and Neurodiversity at Work

  • Unlimited training on our Learning and Development portal

  • Virtual GP and eyecare vouchers

  • Gym membership discount

  • Onsite physiotherapy (London only)

  • Charitable donation matching and2 volunteering days

  • We're a certified Carbon Neutral company

  • Free e-books and audiobooks, newspaper subscriptions and discounts on books

  • Subsidised canteen and retail discounts

  • Onsite prayer room

  If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to stephanie.jemmett@harpercollins.co.uk with subject heading ‘Vacancy Query’ plus the job title and we will aim to get back to you within 5 working days.

  Please note, if you are interested in the role you would need to submit your application via Applied. We do not accept email applications.