Careers

Brookes Publishing is looking for a Marketing Manager to join our team.

Responsibilities and Duties

The successful candidate will be a creative, outgoing, and resourceful self-starter who enjoys intellectual challenge. Reporting to the Marketing Director, the Marketing Manager plays a pivotal role in achieving the company’s goals by partnering with stakeholders in marketing, sales and acquisitions to:

• Design and implement integrated marketing campaigns that create awareness and drive demand for our products.

• Develop clear positioning and messaging that sets us apart from competitors and demonstrates an understanding of our customers’ needs.

• Stay current on market drivers and the competitive landscape and conduct regular and relevant market research to develop customer insights and strategies for market growth.

• Monitor and assess marketing plan performance in order to meet sales, lead generation and brand awareness goals.

• Develop and execute content marketing strategies that engage and nurture our target market segments.

• Manage day-to-day marketing activities to ensure successful alignment of direct mail, email, social media, advertising, publicity, web, conferences, and sales support to meet campaign goals.

• Develop presentations, collateral, and other tools to inform and train the sales team on new and updated products, solutions, and services.

• Prioritize resources and opportunities in accordance with annual goals and budget.

• Develop and maintain relationships with authors, experts, organizations, and customers.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor of Arts degree

• 3-5 years of marketing experience, preferably in a publishing or educational environment, experience preferably will have included:
  • Marketing strategy
  • Content marketing
  • Product management
  • Marketing automation
  • Email & Social media marketing

• Demonstrated proficiency in applying best practices in marketing communication and marketing management

• Excellent critical-thinking, organizational, project management, and process-building skills

• Excellent communication, writing, negotiation, and problem-solving skills

• Ability to think creatively and conceptually as well as analytically

• Intermediate Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of programs
  

Brookes Publishing is looking for a Publishing Specialist to join our team.

Responsibilities and Duties

Reporting directly to an Executive Vice President, the successful Publishing Specialist will:

• Identify and cultivate projects for development into new products and new revenue streams

• Facilitate work with author-collaborators to submit grant applications for federal funding of research projects and subsequent grant project management

• Draft and/or respond to RFPs or other bids to solicit or to engage third-party partners on new projects

• Review and draft publishing contracts and other business-related legal documents relating to the company’s intellectual property

• Draft correspondence with authors, grant team members, and vendors

• Draft internal and external presentations

• Participate in editorial review, including vetting submissions, soliciting peer reviewers, and some developmental editing

• Complete topical research on new areas of business; study policy and technology developments in areas of interest to the company

• Provide planning support for occasional scholarly events hosted by the company

• Assist in budget development and tracking

• Handle general administrative needs of the Executive Vice President

Qualifications and Skills

• At least a bachelor’s degree plus a minimum of 2 years’ relevant work experience and/or mix of experience and education (knowledge of early childhood, education, and/or elder care markets is a plus)

• Demonstrated proficiency in developmental editing and project analysis

• Excellent communication, editing, and writing skills

• Excellent research, data analysis, and multi-project management skills

• Intermediate proficiency in computer operation and Microsoft Office Suite programs; some graphics experience useful but not required

• Professional demeanor and cooperative approach to work in an office environment

Brookes Publishing is looking for a Senior Subsidiary Rights & Contract Manager to join our team.

Responsibilities and Duties

Reporting to an Executive Vice President, the Senior Subsidiary Rights & Contracts Manager will be an experienced supervisor, skilled negotiator, and proven business developer responsible for:

• Negotiating and executing agreements with other publishers, organizations, and third parties for translations, adaptations, and licensings of products, and applications

• Managing inquiries regarding rights and permissions and other uses of intellectual property (IP)

• Managing and maintaining policies and fee structures for rights and permission releases

• Building relationships with authors/editors, publishers, vendors, and other third parties

• Engaging with foreign publishers, governmental agencies, and international distributors and representatives

• Directing the Company’s participation in international book fairs and participating in relevant domestic academic conferences

• Facilitating global and cross-cultural uses and adaptations of Company products

• Overseeing the Company’s processes associated with identification of intellectual property violations and follow-up actions

• Drafting various types of business agreements, contracts, and other legal documents for subsidiary rights transactions

• Providing guidance to other departments in the Company on a variety of legal agreements

• Supervising the processing of copyright and trademark registrations

• Creating and overseeing the departmental budget, including revenue forecasting and expense allocations

Qualifications and Skills

• At least a bachelor’s degree; certificate or graduate coursework in intellectual property or related legal field preferred

• Minimum of 5 years of subsidiary rights, publishing contracts, or related educational publishing experience

• Experience in budget and revenue forecast creation and management

• Strong multi-project management skills

• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

• Advanced verbal and written communication skills (fluency in language in addition to English a plus)

• Experience with budget creation and management

• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills

• Excellent relationship cultivation and management skills

• Excellent time management and organizational skills

• Strong process building abilities and keen research skills