Academic Marketing Associate

The Macmillan Academic Marketing Department seeks a creative, highly-organized individual to market books from the adult trade divisions and client publishers to colleges and high schools. This position offers a variety of responsibilities, among them digital marketing, social media marketing, copywriting, administrative duties, and some travel to academic conferences. This is an ideal position for an enthusiastic, motivated person to champion books that can make a difference to educators and students, and get them established in college syllabi and school curricula.

What you'll do:

• Oversees creation/implementation of social media campaigns
• Advertising in Chronicle of Higher Education
• Create and deploy email campaigns
• Tracking and fulfilling campaign book orders
• Coordinates finished book campaigns
• Assist in the First-Year Experience program
• Provide conference support for the department, including coordinating conference shipments and material
• Track course, First-Year, and Inclusive Access adoptions
• Administrative support for the department

What you'll bring:

• Detail-focused, independently motivated multi-tasker, highly skilled at time and project management.
• Strong and adaptable writing skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to gather, analyze, and synthesize information
• Knowledge of Adobe (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), Excel, and WordPress preferred
  
  

Ideal education/experience:

• 1-3 years book industry experience
• Bachelor's Degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences preferred

This role will have an annual salary of $54,000-$57,000.

Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.