Marketing Assistant

Job description

Are you looking for your first role in marketing? Are you enthusiastic, creative, ready to learn and willing to share your ideas?

We are seeking a new Marketing Assistant to join our dynamic team: if you answered yes to the above, then we want to hear from you!

You will be supporting the JMP Specialist Marketing Team to promote our books and other products to the individuals, families and communities that they will benefit. You will be working on a wide range of specialist non-fiction publishing that help readers explore topics ranging from neurodiversity to gender and sexuality, physical and mental health to faith, as well as how to successfully manage family life, navigate a professional career, or learn a language.

You will undertake a wide range of promotional, research and administrative activities, including creating images and copy for social media, email and digital campaigns, researching blogs, podcasts and other media for promotion and partnership opportunities, and helping to keep our websites up to date.

This is a fantastic launchpad if you are looking to start a career in marketing, giving you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills by getting involved in activities across the full marketing mix.

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.

We’d love it if you had…

We’d love to hear from you if you:

- thrive in a team environment where you are encouraged to share ideas
- have a curiosity for learning and an eagerness to try new things
- are comfortable working across tasks and have an ability to prioritize your workload
- enjoy the opportunity to write creative copy and design exciting marketing assets
- love the challenge of finding solutions to problems
- are excited about the publishing we do, and helping us to reach and support our communities

Employer details

We publish books of excellence and lasting value written by authors with passion and expertise. We're home to popular fiction and non-fiction writers alongside some of the most progressive new voices in publishing. Established in 1768 and with a rich and illustrious history, we are the oldest imprint within Hachette and oldest surviving trade list in British publishing.

Our specialist publishing imprints are Jessica Kingsley Publishers, a pioneering publisher with a strong social justice agenda, NB, an award-winning business, coaching and finance publisher, Sheldon Press - specializing in women’s health, mental health, families and parenting, Hodder Faith, publishing Bibles, and books exploring the Christian faith for adults and children, and John Murray Languages, which includes the Michel Thomas Method, Teach Yourself and Chambers imprints.

John Murray Press is a division of Hachette, one of the largest publishing groups in the UK, with 12 publishing divisions and over 60 imprints. Everyone here is proud to be in the business of opening doors and minds.