Senior Marketing Manager, Adult Trade

The Opportunity

Are you a visionary book marketer looking to shape campaigns for some of the world's biggest authors?

Bloomsbury is seeking a creative, strategic and highly motivated Senior Marketing Manager to join our Adult Trade Marketing department. In this pivotal role, you will spearhead cutting-edge marketing and growth strategies across our Trade list, creating impactful campaigns that connect incredible books with readers worldwide. Working closely with editors, publicists, sales teams and authors, you will devise and execute audience-focused campaigns that build readership, drive sales and strengthen Bloomsbury's reputation for publishing exceptional books.

Bloomsbury is one of the world's leading independent publishing houses, publishing award-winning and internationally bestselling books for readers everywhere. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment where creativity, curiosity, and fresh ideas thrive. If you are passionate about books and excited by the prospect of shaping campaigns for some of today's most distinctive voices in fiction and non-fiction, we would love to hear from you.

This is a rare chance to work across both fiction and non-fiction, shaping the long-term brand strategies for internationally renowned historians and thinkers such as Rutger Bregman and Peter Frankopan, acclaimed novelists including Ann Patchett and Louise Kennedy and high-profile voices such as Gillian Anderson. From literary fiction and narrative non-fiction to major cultural publishing, this role offers the opportunity to work across some of the most exciting books and authors in contemporary publishing.

The Role

As a key voice and leader within the marketing team, your responsibilities will include:

• Campaign Leadership: Creating, implementing and analysing creative campaigns that utilise the full marketing mix to cut through the noise.
• Brand & Launch Strategy: Driving the positioning for titles, authors and building brands, while collaborating directly with high-profile authors and their teams to develop bestselling global campaigns.
• Creative Direction: Overseeing the creation of highly engaging consumer-facing assets and sales materials - from digital to outdoor - working closely with designers, creative professionals and external media agencies.
• Strategic Collaboration: Leading key relationships with our publicity, editorial and sales teams and actively contributing to conversations around wider publishing strategy, list shape and acquisitions.
• Partnerships & Growth: Proactively pursuing cross-promotional partnerships, deepening relationships with influencers and retailers and collaborating with international teams to ensure cohesive global campaigns.
• Budget Management: Working closely with the Head of Marketing to set, manage and reactively adjust budgets to seize market opportunities.
• Team Leadership: Line managing and mentoring junior team members, fostering a collaborative and ambitious team culture.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

To succeed in this role, you will bring a blend of creative vision and commercial acumen, including:

• Strong demonstrated experience of B2C marketing in publishing, working with established brands, platform authors and launching debuts
• Equally comfortable working on literary fiction and ideas-led non-fiction, combining creativity with strong commercial instincts
• Creative vision and excellent copywriting skills, an impeccable eye for detail and a strong understanding of how to build a compelling visual language for a campaign.
• Proven strategic and analytical skills, including a strong ability to interpret data, identify market trends, improve outcomes and develop new processes.
• A deep understanding of the modern media and cultural landscape, digital marketing tools and current social platforms.
• Outstanding interpersonal, negotiation and persuasion skills, with the ability to confidently build strong relationships and communicate with stakeholders at all levels, including high-profile authors, influencers and global brand partners.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and work collaboratively across departments
• Excellent organisational and the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Unmatched enthusiasm for connecting readers with outstanding authors and books
• Line management experience

Additional information

The role is a full-time, permanent position

Salary Range: £39,000 - £46,300, 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 & Tuesday

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 23:59 on Thursday 16th of July 2026

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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

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.