Job Description

Contractual hours: 36
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Location: St Pancras
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (36 hours)
Grade: C
Salary: 28,119 per annum
About the role
We are looking for a creative, enthusiastic and organised Marketing Officer to join our Commercial Marketing team at the British Library. You will be working across a range of commercial services, from retail, publishing, and membership to catering, venue hire, and digitisation.
You will use your campaign and planning experience to support the Marketing Manager in the development and reporting of major campaigns. You will also take ownership of select projects, monitoring against defined objectives. You will be adept at communication and be comfortable liaising with media buyers, creative and digital agencies and stakeholders across a range of commercial areas.
You will have a creative flair and be responsible for the planning, copywriting, production, and distribution of effective promotional materials, content and digital assets. You will also work closely with our content co-ordinator on campaign and newsletter material.
You will keep data at the heart of everything, whether that's campaign planning or reporting results back to key stakeholders.
You will also monitor the budget for select campaigns, raising purchase orders and processing invoices as required.
Alongside other members of the Marketing team, you will also be a central point of contact for Library colleagues, suppliers and partners, as well as external marketing enquiries.
The post holder will work a minimum of three days in the office per week, dividing their time between the Marketing and Commercial Services teams, to enable effective working with our frontline teams who work on site five days per week. On occasion the postholder may have to work out of office hours (for events, filming and other work) and from other Library locations. The post holder will also visit, and may on occasion work from, the Library's northern campus at Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, as necessary.
For more information, please refer to the Job Profile.
About us
We are the national library of the UK and we are here for everyone. Our shelves hold over 170 million items - a living collection that gets bigger every day. Although our roots extend back centuries, we aim to collect everything published in the UK today, tomorrow and far into the future. Our trusted experts care for this collection and open it up for everyone to spark new discoveries, ideas and to help people do incredible things.
What we can offer you

• A competitive salary.

• A fantastic pension scheme with minimum employer contributions of 28.97% (this may be higher dependent on grade).

• Flexible working hours, with the ability to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3-month period.

• 25 days holiday.

• Full details of employee benefits can be found on our

Closing date: 22 October 2025
Proposed interview dates: TBC
If you have any questions, please contact:
We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed Race and other ethnically diverse candidates and disabled candidates. We would like to increase the representation of these groups within The British Library to ensure our workforce is as diverse as the public that we serve. Creating an inclusive workplace is the core of our business and a way to engage the diversity of thought that is essential to achieve our aims.

Skills Required