Junior Marketing Designer, Consumer Marketing & Publicity

Job description

We are looking for a Junior Marketing Designer to join our in-house design team to create impactful and striking consumer-facing campaigns in conjunction with our marketing teams based in the UK and Australia. You’ll be supporting the design team on essential administration, as well as designing marketing materials for our award-winning titles, from proof covers to print ads and social media assets.

Global bestselling brands include Harry Potter, Sarah J. Maas, Tom Kerridge and Wisden alongside award-winning writers and illustrators such as Gillian Anderson, Chris Riddell, Kamila Shamsie, Madeline Miller, Jessie Burton and George Saunders.

This role reports to the Marketing Designer Manager.

You will design a range of print and digital marketing materials, helping to create striking and eye-catching campaigns to drive our books into the hands of readers around the world.

Typical jobs include:
• Assisting the Marketing Design Manager and design team with design projects and administrative support to ensure the smooth day-today running of the team
• Design of print materials, including proof covers, activity packs, point-of-sale items and more
• Design of digital marketing materials, including social media assets, online advertising banners and animated gifs, sales materials and more
• Translating previous campaigns into new marketing material
• Supplying the marketing teams with marketing materials and open files on request

You will learn to interpret a marketing brief, collaborate with marketers and bring your creative ideas to a range of campaigns – from literary fiction to a broad range of non-fiction and children’s books. You’ll be highly organised, efficient, self-motivated, a good communicator and willing to learn.

This is a full-time, permanent position. The role is based at our London office (50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP) on a hybrid working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office-based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are Monday and Tuesday.

We’d love it if you had…

Knowledge, skills and experience - required
• A portfolio that demonstrates creative flair, versatility, technical skills
• Solid understanding of the Mac OS
• Solid understanding of Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign and Photoshop)
• Experience preparing print-ready assets

Knowledge, skills and experience - desirable
• Experience with Adobe After Effects
• Experience with Adobe Premiere Pro

Employer details

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names. Read Our Story for how it all began.