Marketing Assistant

Canongate Books - Marketing Assistant

Canongate Books is one of the UK’s leading independent publishers and we are looking for a passionate and creative Marketing Assistant to join our campaigns team. The role is full-time and will be based in our Edinburgh office.

The Marketing Assistant will play a key role within the marketing team, supporting them in delivering excellent, market-leading campaigns, ensuring Canongate's titles are discovered by new readers and achieving best possible sales. The Marketing Assistant will also help to grow the profile of Canongate’s corelist (backlist) titles.

Our ideal candidate will be a passionate reader and a team player with excellent organisational skills, the ability to write persuasive copy and communicate effectively both externally – with brands, partners, authors and readers – and internally within the campaigns team and the wider company. They will be enthusiastic about our whole list, not just the new books, and most importantly they will be full of ideas, with a desire to explore new ways of telling readers about our books.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting the team in planning and executing marketing campaigns for Canongate
• Providing general administrative support for the marketing department including organising meetings, arranging book mailings, processing invoices, helping with book fair and sales conference organisation, ordering books, managing our proof schedule etc.
• Leading on our reader outreach, managing our Netgalley account and taking an active role in growing our influencer relationships
• Working alongside our digital team to create attention-grabbing content for our website, newsletters and social media channels
• Tracking, reviewing and communicating digital analytics across social media, website and newsletters
• Producing sell-in, presentation and point-of-sale material for our sales department
• Assisting with refreshing keywords and descriptive copy to increase discoverability of our titles