Publicity Manager - Publishing - London - £35,000 - 6 month FTC
Wise May are looking for a Publicity Manager to join a busy Publishing business in London within a friendly and supportive team.
We are looking for a bright, friendly, enthusiastic candidate to join this brand new contemporary office. The candidate should be flexible and able to work under pressure to ensure the company delivers against its objectives in a timely manner.
Duties include:
- Being part of a culture of collaboration and communication within the team, divisions, departments and global teams
- Offer support and assistance to the Team Assistant: sharing experience and knowledge of working on a range of titles
- Creative idea generation creative planning; collaborating with other teams to create fully integrated campaigns working closely with marketing, brand and social teams
- Maintain extensive children's media relations and extensive knowledge of the wider media landscape, across digital and social media
- Maintain strong working relationships journalists, librarians, retailers, festival programmers and key literary gatekeepers with the aim of securing feature and review coverage
- Maintaining and grow publicity media database lists
- Maintaining up to date and detailed documents for own campaigns
- Exemplary author and agent care with regular and prompt communications
Skills required:
- Proven track record of generating eye-catching, stand out PR coverage and events, ideally at a trade publishing house
- Detailed working knowledge of PR and strong, established media connections
- Motivated to develop own understanding of the media and the wider children's book market
- Enthusiasm to find new and innovative ways to promote our books
- Strong organisational and administrative skills, ability to prioritise busy workload
Hybrid working offered