Senior Marketing Manager, Bloomsbury Children’s – 13 month FTC

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Children’s is looking for a creative and ambitious Senior Marketing Manager to join our team for a 13-month fixed term contract.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Marketing Manager, or a Senior Marketing Manager with a passion for children’s books to take a step-up or across in their career.

Bloomsbury is the home to many bestselling children’s brands and authors across picture books, middle-grade, YA and graphic novels, such as Harry Potter, Katherine Rundell, Tom Percival, Michael Rosen, Lex Croucher, and Kalynn Bayron.

Reporting to the Children’s Marketing Director, the Senior Marketing Manager will create and implement integrated marketing campaigns across the children’s list and will manage a junior member of the marketing team.

The role

Create, implement, manage and analyse campaigns which use the full marketing mix to drive sales of our children’s books.
Act as a key voice and driver in the strategy for allocated brand and author properties.
Contribute to conversations and drive thinking around wider publishing strategy, list shape and acquisitions.
Proactively pursue marketing opportunities with brand partners, media partners and key stakeholders to increase brand visibility.
Support a culture of collaboration, working closely with our publicity, sales and editorial teams.
Build, develop and maintain excellent working relationships with authors, agents and publishing partners.
Understand the importance of social media and digital activity as part of campaigns, working with the internal digital teams to drive children’s priorities and to create holistic campaign strategies across online/social and print.
Manage individual title marketing budgets and work with the Marketing Director to strategically set budgets for titles and to adjust reactively as opportunities arise.
Line-manage the Children’s Marketing Assistant.

Knowledge, skills and experience

Experience and knowledge of marketing children’s brands to family audiences, and a demonstrable passion for children’s books.
Line-management experience ideal.
Experience of working with internal and external stakeholders such as authors, editors, freelancer designers/animators, media agencies.
Full knowledge and understanding of the marketing mix, including digital and traditional advertising, catalogues, promotional activity and research.
Experience of working successfully with third parties on innovative marketing partnerships and initiatives.
Ability to multi-task and work on several different projects simultaneously.
Excellent inter-personal, presentation and organisational skills, in addition to creative flair.
Strong knowledge of current marketing best practices, trends and opportunities across on/offline platforms.

Additional information

The role is a full-time, 13-month fixed-term contract position to start mid-late March, depending on availability.

Salary: c.£42,000 p.a. depending on experience

The role is based at our London office 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP on a hybrid-working pattern of 2 days office-based / 3 days home-based (or fully office-based if preferred). Allocated office days for this role are Monday and Tuesday.

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via our website how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 on Monday 5th January 2026.

https://bloomsbury.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/4035391?cid=2029

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Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

Bloomsbury Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

Working Pattern

Hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

25 days holiday
3.5 days Christmas company holiday

Other Benefits

Two paid Personal Wellness Days
Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
Work Anywhere Fortnight – For two weeks of any calendar year. The minimum period for Working Anywhere is one week, the maximum period is two weeks.
Season Ticket Loan
Learning & Development – Free access to LinkedIn Learning, BookMachine Campus, InRehearsal & IPG Skills Hub
Share Save Scheme
AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
Ride to Work Scheme
Peppy Health App
In-house Doctor
Eye Care Voucher Scheme
EAP Advice and Counselling

Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom, Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

For additional benefits see our careers page

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.

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