Academic Marketing Apprentice

About the Role

Bloomsbury is looking for an organised and enthusiastic candidate to support its Academic Books marketing team. The role involves admin support across subject areas, including Fashion, Politics and Linguistics, while gaining marketing experience and learning how academic resources reach students, lecturers and researchers globally.

Tasks

Tasks will be varied but may include:

• Producing marketing materials, such as posters and digital assets, on Canva
• Following briefs given by marketing and sales colleagues to create and deploy email campaigns on Mailchimp
• Updating our website and blog
• Creating engaging social media posts on X, Facebook, Bluesky and occasionally Instagram
• Undertaking research, e.g. to find journal, magazine or newspaper editors who might want to review one of our books
• Putting together plans for our review copy outreach
• Event administration, e.g. creating and packing materials!

Please be aware that we do provide full training for all of the above tasks!

Course Contents

• Input and maintain data to produce products or publications that meet company, sales channel and audience requirements.
• Continually improve the quality of information or data in line with best practice.
• Maintain data and records in line with relevant data protection guidelines.
• Follow publishing guidelines relevant to their role to produce products or publications that meet budgets, are on schedule and meet company and industry standards.
• Ensure appropriate changes are highlighted and agreed with stakeholders
• Apply rigour and attention to detail
• Escalate issues and concerns, in line with company process.
• Identify stakeholders, build relationships and manage expectations
• Present appropriate information clearly and concisely, whether internal or external.
• Ensure that products or publications meet contractual structures agreed with authors or other content providers.
• Think laterally and provide sensible solutions to problems.
• Demonstrate a strong ability to work as part of a team, taking on tasks confidently and resourcefully, working cooperatively with others, and supporting the team and line manager as required.
• Communicate clearly with relevant stakeholders, showing confidence, inclusiveness and flexibility, and ensuring an appropriate use of language and terminology.
• Present and communicate ideas to colleagues internally and externally as needed.
• Manage own workload and operate both individually and as part of a wider team and seek support when needed.
• Demonstrate good time-management – prioritise effectively, with the ability to manage multiple demands and deadlines.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively during remote or hybrid working, where required by their company.