We are recruiting a Marketing Executive to join the team at Mare Nostrum. We are a full service company providing dynamic distribution, sales marketing, data management and consultancy services to commercial and university press academic publishers. We are looking for someone to join the team looking after the marketing needs of our university press clients.

Duties of the role include:

• Manage third party agencies/relationships
• Deal with day to day enquiries from University Presses and their stakeholders including authors
• Coordinate with authors to support their marketing efforts around publication
• Contributing to and compiling client reporting platforms and reports
• Provide proactive insights based on market knowledge to support stock ordering
• Processing media requests
• Designing, planning and executing email campaigns
• Processing paid and gratis orders
• Contributing to social media output representing our clients and authors
• Producing flyers and catalogues for events, authors and sales colleagues
• Creating tailored landing pages on the bookshop website for events and promotions
• Attending academic conferences within the UK and EU to represent our client publishers’ books
• Liaising with other internal departments including Logistics and Sales

Skills required:

• 1+ year experience working in a sales or marketing role in publishing, client management would be a benefit
• Proficient across Microsoft Office packages including Word and Excel
• Knowledge of WordPress desirable
• Good organisation skills with the ability to work on multiple projects
• Working knowledge of design software such as InDesign, Affinity or Quark
• Good communication skills
• Good team player

Benefits:

• Private healthcare
• Pension plan via NEST
• 25–28 days holiday plus 1 additional day for birthday
• Team building days and events
• Hybrid working

Mare Nostrum Group provides an inclusive and nurturing work environment in which we encourage all our employees to learn and focus on their own personal development. There are opportunities for growth and career development within the company.

We welcome applications from all members of society and embrace a diverse workforce.

To enable an equitable experience for all and give you the best chance of success, if you have any specific requirements for any stage of the interview process, please let us know by emailing: recruitment@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Mare Nostrum Group is a full-service publishing company with an in-house team of over 50 employees, providing distribution, sales, marketing, data management, recruitment, and consultancy services to academic and professional publishers in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. With over 25 years’ experience and a reputation for providing a comprehensive, tailored service, Mare Nostrum Group is widely considered to be the premier academic sales and marketing agency outside of North America.