Intern, Marketing

Overview:
**Company**:Harlequin Enterprises ULC

**Job Title**:Intern, Marketing

**Department**: Brand Group - Brand Publishing Team

**Reporting To**:Assistant Product Manager, Brand Publishing

**Status**:Contract (12 Months)

**Location**:22 Adelaide Street West, Toronto (hybrid model)

We celebrate and support the differences that make each of us unique, striving to create a welcoming workplace that ensures everyone has a voice and are able to do their best work. We welcome all applicants, including those who identify with groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry including, but not limited to, Black, Indigenous, people of colour, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and persons with disabilities.

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**Responsibilities**:
***Job Summary**:
Reporting to the Assistant Manager, Brand Publishing, the Intern will get a broad overview of the Harlequin brand publishing and marketing efforts and the various roles within marketing. The Intern will gain experience in a variety of areas within brand marketing, book marketing and product management.

This team works closely with the brand marketing, editorial, art and sales departments to develop and raise awareness for books under the Harlequin Brand publishing umbrella across a wide variety of genres.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Assists Assistant Manager, Brand Publishing with a variety of tracking documents that assist in executing the publishing strategy for Harlequin’s Core Series business.
- Participates in meetings to aid in keyword and metadata search optimization and cover direction.
- Works with key stakeholders to ensure on-time development, communication and execution of covers according to publishing schedules.
- Assists Assistant Manager, Brand Publishing in the execution of in-book advertising across a variety of series.
- Aids in trend investigation projects to help inform publishing strategies and discover areas of opportunity.
- Acts as a key point of contact across various teams to provide clarity and support as required.
- Drafts marketing copy as required.

Qualifications:
**Qualifications**:

- Ability to successfully manage multiple projects with strong time management and prioritization skills.
- Proven ability to deliver timely, accurate work, manage multiple deadlines, and demonstrate solid follow through.
- Ability to pay close attention to detail in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- High level of organization and record-keeping.
- High degree of initiative and independence, and the ability to anticipate needs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; collaboration, persuasion, and problem-solving skills, with the aptitude to communicate effectively in both individual and group settings.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including a basic understanding of Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Creativity, enthusiasm, and a love of books are a must.

**About HarperCollins Canada and Harlequin**

**Harlequin **is a leading publisher of commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. We publish more than 100 titles a month that reach audiences globally. Encompassing highly recognizable imprints that span a broad number of genres, we are home to many award-winning New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors. Harlequin is a division of **HarperCollins Publishers**, the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Through HarperCollins’s global publishing program, Harlequin titles are published in 17 countries and 16 languages.

Known worldwide for the quality of its list, **HarperCollins Canada **is the proud home of many bestselling and award-winning authors, including Esi Edugyan, Heather O’Neill, and Lawrence Hill. It is our vision to publish the best books of our generation and to work with authors over the length and breadth of their careers. Our authors are at the centre of everything we do. In addition to the Canadian publishing program, HarperCollins Canada is responsible for the sales, marketing, and publicity of HarperCollins titles from around the globe.

HarperCollins Canada and Harlequin are **Equal Opportunity Employers **committed to