Publicity Manager

HarperCollins Publishers Australia

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Sydney NSW

Editing & Publishing (Advertising, Arts & Media)

Full time

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HarperCollins Australia is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic professional to join the HarperCollins Adult Books marcomms division in the role of Publicity Manager. This is a full-time position, based at our head office in Sydney’s CBD.

The purpose of the role is to work with the Head of Marketing & Communications to drive the strategic direction of the Adult Books publicity team. You will oversee a team of three talented professionals, providing guidance to ensure their success, while also spearheading your own high-profile campaigns.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to) :

• Lead and oversee the Adult Books publicity team in delivering top-tier publicity campaigns

• Work closely with publishing, marketing and sales teams to create innovative and impactful publicity strategies for our authors

• Plan and implement your own fully integrated publicity campaigns for the Adult Books division’s local and international authors

• Organise, execute and attend author launches, events and national tours to enhance author visibility and maximise sales

• Write media materials for internal and external use

• Participate in acquisition and covers meetings

• Cultivate strong relationships with internal stakeholders, NewsCorp Australia, authors, agents, booksellers, and media

• Oversee the year-round schedule of author participation at national writers’ festivals

• Attend writers’ festivals and conferences

• Other duties, as required

The successful candidate will possess:

• A demonstrable publicity background working in publishing, the arts, or similar

• Experience in managing and leading a successful publicity team

• Bring their knowledge of the market and prior publicity experience to deliver outstanding campaigns

• Strong relationships across Australian media

• Excellent market and commercial knowledge, able to keep up-to-date with the latest trends, news, media and wider cultural landscape

• Exceptional time management and planning with the ability to work effectively across multiple projects with various deadlines

• Great attention to detail

• Strong written and verbal skills

To be effective in this role you will have experience working on fully integrated and dynamic publicity campaigns, as well as experience organising and managing author tours and events, excellent interpersonal skills, and be positive and self-motivated, with a keen interest in books.

At HarperCollins ANZ, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We invite candidates of all ages, races, religions, genders, sexual orientations and people with disability to apply for this or any other advertised role on offer.

If this sounds like you, apply now! Only successful candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Employer questions

Your application will include the following questions:

• Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia?

• How many years' experience do you have as a Publicity Manager?

• How many years' experience do you have in a publishing role?

• What's your expected annual base salary?

Company profile

HarperCollins Publishers

3.8

·

5 reviews

HarperCollins occupies a unique place in Australian and New Zealand publishing. In both nations we are the oldest publisher – with a heritage dating back to the bush ballads and school books of the late nineteenth century – and the most forward thinking in terms of our transition to the global digital world of today.

Through the decades, our publishing has been distinguished by a commitment to quality and creativity plus an innate understanding of what Australians and New Zealanders want to read and how. Authors and their work have always been at the heart of our company – without authors there would be no HarperCollins. Publishing is a highly collaborative business: everyone in the company contributes in some way to maximising our author’s work.

Our company has an equally long heritage globally and indeed today we are able to work more closely than ever before with colleagues around the world to ensure that our local titles are exploited internationally. The modern-day HarperCollins Publishers was founded in 1989 by the amalgamation of three proud publishing houses – Harper & Row (founded in New York in 1817), William Collins (founded in Glasgow in 1819) and Angus & Robertson (founded in Sydney in the 1880s).

Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website

HarperCollins occupies a unique place in Australian and New Zealand publishing. In both nations we are the oldest publisher – with a heritage dating back to the bush ballads and school books of the late nineteenth century – and the most forward thinking in terms of our transition to the global digital world of today.

Through the decades, our publishing has been distinguished by a commitment to quality and creativity plus an innate understanding of what Australians and New Zealanders want to read and how. Authors and their work have always been at the heart of our company – without authors there would be no HarperCollins. Publishing is a highly collaborative business: everyone in the company contributes in some way to maximising our author’s work.

Our company has an equally long heritage globally and indeed today we are able to work more closely than ever before with colleagues around the world to ensure that our local titles are exploited internationally. The modern-day HarperCollins Publishers was founded in 1989 by the amalgamation of three proud publishing houses – Harper & Row (founded in New York in 1817), William Collins (founded in Glasgow in 1819) and Angus & Robertson (founded in Sydney in the 1880s).

Source: this is an extract from the company’s own website

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