Manager, Marketing Operations

Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers, is seeking a Manager, Marketing Operations to join our team. The Manager will be responsible for overseeing a variety of operational tasks including, but not limited to, managing MCPG’s seasonal schedule, promotional budget and expenses, and internal workflow processes.

We are seeking an organized self-starter with experience in marketing operations. The Manager must have excellent communication skills, confidence interacting with colleagues at all levels, a demonstrated ability to develop and champion new workflows and navigate complex situations, and a strong attention to detail.


A love of children’s publishing is a plus but not required. This role will report to the Executive Director of Marketing and will work closely with cross-functional colleagues across the marketing, sales, design, and managing editorial departments.

What You'll Do:

• Spearhead seasonal calendar creation process and orchestration of internal deadlines for the marketing department, including coordinating reminders and communication of deadlines to the entire MCPG marketing team.
• Manage planning process for seasonal Sales Conference meetings: scheduling, organizing, vetting materials, recording presentations.
• Act as key liaison with the Sales, Design, Managing Editorial and Production departments in the US to manage coordination of sales materials, maintain grids, monitor and ensure allocation.
• Implement and direct the display and print promotional materials creation process on behalf of the marketing team, coordinating closely with internal marketing design, production, sales and warehouse teams and with external vendors, and designers.
• Create and implement MCPG’s promotional budget tracking system, including: developing a cross-departmental workflow, collaborating with cross-functional colleagues to ensure expenses are accounted for consistently across systems, creating and communicating monthly reporting for the marketing department.
• Develop and maintain additional budgetary and financial processes for marketing, department, including: Setting up new vendors for payment, tracking seasonal, round-up, and miscellaneous expenses with department heads.
• Organize cross-departmental initiatives as assigned.

What You'll Bring:

• Confidence handling financial and budgetary information.
• Experience developing new workflows.
• Print production experience.
• Ability to learn new systems and processes.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple teams concurrently.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to proactively communicate effectively across departments and seniority levels.
• Strong knowledge of Airtable, Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc) and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc).
• 5+ years in marketing operations or related field.
• Publishing experience is a plus but not required.
• Working knowledge of additional project management systems like Hive and Basecamp a plus but not required.
• Working knowledge of financial tracking and payment systems like Concur a plus but not required.

The salary range for this role is $70,000 - $80,000.

This position is classified as remote but is tied to our New York, NY office located at 120 Broadway. Employment is subject to New York State tax withholding under applicable regulations.


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.


Macmillan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer consistently striving to foster a culture where everyone belongs. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities. Qualified applicants are evaluated without regard to race, color, religion, age, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, physical ability, neurodiversity, genetic information, protected veteran status, family and economic status and background or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

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