Marcomms Assistant, HCCB

Application Deadline: 20 June 2026

Department: Marketing

Employment Type: Permanent

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 recruitment@harpercollins.co.uk with subject heading ‘Vacancy Query’ plus the job title and we will aim to get back to you within 5 working days.

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