Overview
Marcomms Assistant, HCCB Jobs in London, England, United Kingdom at HarperCollins Publishers UK
Application Deadline: 20 June 2026
Department: Marketing
Location: London
Compensation: £29,000 / year
Description
Please note: this vacancy will close once 200 applications have been received. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
As Marcomms Assistant you will support the division’s Marcomms team, assisting with campaigns designed to drive profitable sales of titles, developing and strengthening key author brands, and successfully launching debuts. You will provide significant administrative support, ensuring the smooth running of all marketing and publicity campaigns, as well as providing creative input where necessary, helping to develop highly creative consumer marketing and publicity campaigns across physical, digital and audio products.
This role is ideally suited to an organised and detail-focused candidate who has bags of creativity, initiative and energy. They will have a keen interest in children’s publishing and be excited at the prospect of applying creative flair throughout their day-to-day work, ensuring that our campaigns continue to stand out at the forefront of a competitive market.
Key Responsibilities
- Assisting the Marketing and Communications Director with diary management and daily ad-hoc tasks to ensure the smooth running of the MarComms Department
- Supporting the MarComms team with general administrative tasks including scheduling meetings, setting up monthly M&P planning documents, fulfilling competition prizes, POS mailings, monitoring the general inbox and dealing with enquiries and team schedules
- Support the implementation of marketing and publicity campaign initiatives that achieve impact and cut through across a range of channels including radio, print, mobile, social, email, digital, video, and events.
- Create and schedule social media posts and provide support to the Marketing team across all HCCB social media channels
- Manage distribution of review mailers both in house and via the mailing warehouse
- Compiling monthly bookseller submissions and bookseller supplement submissions
- Manage requests for books and be across ordering books from the warehouse for press and marketing comps
- Assist the wider PR team in supplying assets and key publishing information to press partners
- Raising PO’s and logging invoices and managing budget spreadsheet across Marketing and PR to ensure that all administration enabling control and visibility of spend is up-to-date and accurate, including processing expenses and setting up new suppliers.
- Look after and logging fan mail
- Oversee and maintain database of key journalist contacts
- File and log daily press cuttings
- Compile weekly Books in the News
- Design and oversee the seasonal publicity catalogue and oversee bespoke seasonal mailings e.g. Easter, Valentine’s Day and Christmas
- Assisting with updates, maintenance and creation of new content, including landing pages, seasonal and competition pages for the HCCB website
- Helping to create presentations, when necessary, in particular for company highlights and for author pre-publication meetings.
- Supporting the PR by attending events
- Representing HCCB at trade conferences and overseeing organisation of involvement in those conferences, e.g. FCBG, SLA etc.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Proven administrative experience
- Ability to communicate confidently, both in writing and verbally
- Excellent spelling and grammar
- Computer skills: Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent organisational skills
- Effective at multi-tasking
- Able to manage deadlines
- A love of children’s books
- A willingness to travel for events, with some weekend and evening work required
If you wish to discuss anything regarding this position and/or your application to this role, please reach out directly to [email protected] with subject heading ‘Vacancy Query’ plus the job title and we will aim to get back to you within 5 working days.
Title: Marcomms Assistant, HCCB
Company: HarperCollins Publishers UK
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
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