Senior Publicity Manager, Ebury Food

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Are you in your element when you create high-profile, innovative campaigns? Are you passionate about food, restaurants or cookery publishing?

Ebury is the home of non-fiction publishing at Penguin Random House UK and this is a great chance to work in the No.1. Food Publishing team in the industry. We are looking for a dynamic and resourceful Senior Publicity Manager with a passion for food and a flair for publicity to create impactful campaigns that drive sales.

The Opportunity

This is a pivotal role for the Food and Lifestyle Hub's campaigns team. Reporting into the Campaigns Director (Food & Lifestyle) this role will be responsible for planning and implementing targeted and innovative publicity campaigns for our frontlist and brand authors.

You will independently and confidently create, manage and deliver creative and audience-facing campaigns. The successful candidate will be a key voice in our communications team and will bring their knowledge of the publicity landscape and prior experience to produce outstanding campaigns.

You will contribute to every stage of the publishing process, from trend spotting and idea generation, pitches, acquisitions and campaigns, strategy meetings, author events and much more.

You'll constantly work to build the hub's network of influencers, media and event contacts to make our campaigns as impactful as possible.

This role will have one line report.

We're open to talent from inside and outside the publishing industry

About the Ebury Food Hub

In the Ebury Food Hub, our mission is to make life tastier and easier, to introduce more readers to new and established food voices, to shine a light on overlooked cuisines and expand culinary horizons. To make connections in the most joyful way possible: through cooking and eating.

As the No.1 cookbook publisher in the UK, the list is simply unrivalled. From Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage and Julius Roberts to Mary Berry, Rick Stein, MOB, Jane's Patisserie and the Bored of Lunch phenomenon, the depth of talent is exceptional.

It's a thriving and ultra creative team and space. Ebury's hub model blends editorial, publicity and marketing, and feeds on idea flow from every area of the team.

What you'll bring

Perhaps you're an experienced Campaigns Manager looking for their next step, or a senior publicist looking to work across bigger campaigns and take on more responsibility for delivering strategy. This is an exciting time to be part of Ebury, who won Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2024.

You don't need to have worked in publishing before but a passion for Food is certainly important! What you will bring is some experience in working with talent, food or lifestyle which means you have your eye on the audience and understand how a publicity campaign will work in this area.

Qualities we're looking for:

• *Ability to run campaigns in a busy communications environment
• *Being able to quickly adapt, respond to trends and pivot to the newest "moment"
• *Ability to understand markets and analyse campaigns to constantly improve and drive a culture of learning
• *Fascinated by the media, specifically the food and lifestyle industry and always alert to new opportunities to promote books
• *A motivated self-starter who can work independently and manage multiple projects all with different lead times
• Line management experience, or having had experience mentoring, tutoring and setting example
• Commitment to building strong, collaborative working relationship with authors and agents and providing the highest level of author care
• A confident and trusted partner for other internal teams including Marketing, Editorial, Sales and International, to champion each book

How to apply

If this sounds like your next role, please apply with your CV and cover letter by 11:59pm on Monday 14th October.

As part of your cover letter, please tell us about the campaign you've been most proud to work on in your career.

About Penguin

We're the UK's largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you'll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

Salary: Between £40,000 - £45,000 depending on how your skills and experience align with the role, plus bonus and benefits.

Competitive benefits package: Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

• Financial - discounted shopping, season ticket loan, rental deposit loan
• Wellbeing - healthcare cash plan, employee assistance, gym loan
• Lifestyle - taste card, tech scheme, free and discounted books

For our full benefits list please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/what-we-offer/

Hybrid working: We're experimenting with a hybrid way of working that suits the needs of each team. While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role, we expect you'll be in our London office 2 days a week (on Tuesdays and Thursdays) but due to the nature of PR, there will be moments when you'll need to attend the office more often, and there will be an element of evening and weekend work to fit around authors' schedules. We will discuss this with you through the recruitment process.

The recruitment process: You can read about our recruitment process at https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/how-we-hire/

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview. Minimum criteria is highlighted in the what you'll bring section with a *.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: The Random House Group Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: London

City: London

Postal Code: SW11 7BW

Job ID: 274195

Date: 30 Sep 2024

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