FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Reports to: Director of Marketing
Employment Status: Full-Time
The Marketing Assistant works with the Publisher Marketing team on campaigns for and in support of IPG’s two in-house publishers, Chicago Review Press and Triumph Books, as well as their imprints. The Marketing Assistant specifically assists with B and C-level campaigns as well as most paperback and second editions. This role utilizes social media skills, event planning, partnership building, author engagement, research, and other strategies to bring together individual campaigns for each title.
Success in this role involves knowledge of industry, sports and pop culture trends, ability to think strategically about how to get books in front of readers and boost sales, and the ideal candidate possesses excellent communication skills. The ability to create and maintain new relationships with authors, stores, teams and organizations is also in line with the company’s goals to grow and advance in the publishing marketplace.
This position is open to remote or hybrid applicants (located in the Chicago area). Our Chicago office is located at 814 N. Franklin Street in the River North neighborhood of Chicago.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
IPG is the original independent distributor of books, ebooks, and audiobooks from publishers around the world, and a top 10 supplier of book content to Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, independent bookstores, libraries, and specialty markets, in addition to thousands of retailers globally.
Established in 1971, Independent Publishers Group (IPG) was the first organization specifically created for the purpose of marketing titles from independent presses to the book trade. IPG was acquired by Chicago Review Press in 1987. In the fall of 2006, Chicago Review Press, Inc., the parent company of IPG, bought Trafalgar Square Publishing, Inc., the leading North American distributor of UK publishers. Trafalgar Square Publishing was founded in 1973 and as a division of IPG, now distributes products from clients such as Penguin Random House UK, Australia, New Zealand, and China; Allen & Unwin; The History Press UK; Amberley Publishing; HarperCollins UK; Pan Macmillan; and John Blake.
With consistent growth each year, IPG’s success has come from supporting and encouraging the growth of its client publishers in the United States and worldwide. IPG has a wide reach in the market with its distribution of publishers with academic, Spanish-language, children’s, and general nonfiction and fiction titles.