Head of Marketing, Children’s Books

at  Bonnier Books

Job title: Head of Marketing, Children’s Books
Reports to: Managing Director, Children’s Trade
Location: Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London
Working Pattern: Hybrid- minimum 2 days a week from the office, up to 3 days from home
Imprint: Children’s
Department: Marketing
Salary: Depending on experience

GENERAL SUMMARY

Bonnier Books UK has an exciting opportunity for a Head of Marketing to lead its children’s and YA marketing team.
In this role, you will be directly responsible for devising and managing campaigns across the team, ensuring that strategy, planning, and execution are consistently of a high standard. You will own and report on the marketing budget and manage a fantastic team of hard-working, creative, and commercially savvy individuals.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for stories and storytelling – whether through books, TV, film, or advertising. They will be a self-starter who consistently delivers at a high level and demonstrates strong leadership and management skills. They will be strategic, highly commercial, action-oriented, and consumer-focused, able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• A self-starter who operates with a high degree of autonomy
• Proven ability to lead and develop a team, inspiring individuals
• High degree of ownership – setting KPIs and delivering on targets, actively looking for opportunities to drive ROI and improve processes, and consistently measuring performance
• Continuously identifies opportunities for growth and leads strategy for their imprint/category
• Fully accountable for managing division marketing budgets and allocations, and delivering against targets for their imprint/category
• Impeccable communication skills, with the ability to work with senior stakeholders across the business
  If you are interested in this role, please apply via our website. We look forward to hearing from you.
  Competitive Salary
  Working with a team of passionate, talented people
  Internal learning and development programmes
  Career Development opportunities
  Fun social events
  At Bonnier Books UK, we believe that every book matters. We love to publish stories and content that open our eyes to new perspectives and bring us closer together. We offer a nurturing home for our authors, illustrators and brand partners, publishing bestselling books for readers and listeners everywhere. We know that fantastic stories can come from anywhere and our purpose is to bring them to as wide an audience as possible, a simple ethos that has led to us becoming one of the country’s leading publishers.
  The offspring of Bonnier Books, a family-owned top-15 world publisher headquartered in Sweden, we are inspired by a rich literary heritage but not bound by convention. We think in generations rather than quarters, and strive always to operate in an open, curious way that contributes to the future of the planet and its people. As a climate-neutral publisher we are an active participant in the Science Based Target initiative, committed to a strategy to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.

• Manage the marketing P&L for the division
• Line management of the marketing team
• Overall management of the marketing budget
• Act as the main point of contact for Editorial and Sales
• Devise and manage campaigns across the team/imprint or category – including strategy, planning, and execution – to a consistently high level
• Collaborate with imprint heads and input into publishing/category strategy to drive growth and innovation