Marketing Executive, Transworld (FTC to December 2025)

Do you always have a book recommendation at your fingertips? Would you like to spread the word about some of the world’s bestselling authors and brands, and be part of the team who discover the next big thing?

If this sounds like you, we have an exciting opportunity for a Marketing Executive to create audience-focused campaigns as part of the award-winning Transworld team, on a fixed term basis to the end of 2025.

About Transworld

Transworld is one of seven adult publishing houses within Penguin Random House, with an annual turnover of £50-60m. Recent successes include two of the biggest-selling books of recent years - Spare by Prince Harry and Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus. At the beating heart of Transworld is a passion for our authors, a belief in their books, and a hunger for success. Transworld has an unrivalled reputation for turning debuts into bestsellers whilst creating long term 'brand-name' authors such as Bill Bryson, Kate Atkinson, Paula Hawkins, Lee Child and Dan Brown.

The role

We’re looking for a highly creative Marketing Executive to support with the smooth running of the marketing team. Combining your creativity with strategic thinking and commercial awareness, you’ll manage campaigns across a range of media; planning, briefing, and delivering content as well as reacting to new opportunities and shifts in the market. You’ll have the opportunity to work across Transworld’s excitingly varied list, for example from the Jack Reacher series to authors like Sophie Kinsella, and from sci-fi and fantasy, to literary, to business and self-development.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting the creation of successful marketing strategies, including identifying the audience, shaping the pitch, creative consumer message, planning media space, partnerships and campaign analysis
• Coordinating with relevant divisional departments, including sales, editorial, and publicity
• Developing, implementing and reviewing strategy for specific marketing channels such as divisional social channels, newsletters, websites, influencer outreach and online community building
• Providing digital marketing guidance for authors, including content planning, timelines and problem-solving
• Liaising with UK Group Marketing and International Sales and Marketing teams to promote our books in all markets

What you’ll bring

This role would be great for someone who has experience either running or supporting on campaigns. You’ll understand our audiences and how to talk to readers, and you’ll have experience posting on social medias such as Instagram and X. The ideal candidate will be keen to engage with the online reading community and explore opportunities to build relationships with authors and readers through community social channels.

Essential criteria:

• A demonstrable interest in Publishing and the books published by Transworld
• A familiarity with marketing campaigns and how they are run
• Experience posting on social channels
• Curiosity and a creative approach to marketing and engaging with audiences
• Excellent demonstrable communication and relationship building skills
• Proactive, flexible, and able to work to deadlines and to budgets

Preferred criteria:

• Previous experience using Canva
• Previous experience running META campaigns

Application instructions

Please apply with your CV and cover letter outlining why you are the right candidate for the role by 11:59pm on Thursday 13th March.

Please ensure you include a cover letter, as it is a crucial part of our assessment process. The cover letter offers an opportunity to show how your experience and interests align with the role requirements. Typically, we expect the cover letter to be no more than one or two pages in length.

Please note we are looking for someone to join the team as soon as possible, but we are also happy to accommodate a reasonable notice period for the right candidate.

Salary

£30,000-£34,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

What you can expect from us

Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

• Financial – discounted shopping, season ticket loan, rental deposit loan
• Wellbeing – healthcare cash plan, employee assistance, gym loan
• Lifestyle – taste card, tech scheme, free and discounted books

For our full benefits list please visit: https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/what-we-offer/

Hybrid working

While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. Transworld’s core office days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and for this role we expect that you will work from our Embassy Gardens office at least 2 days per week.

About Penguin

We’re the UK’s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you’ll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

The recruitment process

You can read about our recruitment process at https://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/how-we-hire/

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. The essential criteria for this role are listed as part of the ‘What you’ll bring’ section. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing PRHCareersUK@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: The Random House Group Limited 

Country: United Kingdom 

State/Region: London 

City: London 

Postal Code: SW11 7BW 

Job ID: 278015