Publisher (Interim) Special Interest - Peterborough, United Kingdom - Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media Group

Verified Company

Peterborough, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job Introduction:

The Focus of the Role:
This Publisher role will manage market leading, multi-platform brands in the Outdoor, Sport, Hobbies and Gardening markets.

Working with editorial, marketing and commercial teams to plan, manage and co-ordinate the activity required to achieve quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

Role Responsibility:

Work with the Group Managing Director to ensure that the OKRs are set each quarter, and are constantly monitored and reported on
Work with the segment Group Editors (Outdoor, Sport and Angling, Gardening, Hobbies) to ensure the channel content plans support the brand strategies and OKRs, namely:
Growing paid membership
Increasing site sessions
Driving affiliate basket values
Achieving commercial revenues
To work as a brand champion of the titles in the portfolio to ensure that all editorial and commercial opportunities enhance the reader/customer experience, deliver the brand promise & integrity and contribute to the profit KPI's.
Ensure teams are audience led, using insights and analysis to direct the content and products we produce for our customers.
To work specifically on all commercial and editorial aspects taking specific day to day responsibility for editorial development, retail sales, advertising, marketing, subscriptions, and other revenue generating areas.
To assist the Group Managing Director in creating the brand plans in line with the segment strategies
To identify and contribute to new enterprise revenue opportunities in the segment
Nurture successful relationships with other Publishers to maximise learning for innovation and growth.
To look at all cost base and revenue opportunities across the brands to ensure that the forecast profit for the portfolio is met and ideally increased
Responsible for compliance and negotiations with licensors, business partners, freelancers, and suppliers
As a member of the Senior Leadership team to play a part in contributing a feedback loop to the BU strategy, structure and culture, and play an important role in communicating and championing transformation and change.
Operationalise segment strategies and BU wide projects.
Represent and be an ambassador for content quality and innovation across the BU.
Experience as a Publisher / Associate Publisher
Proven experience of Publishing in subscriptions and membership business
Proven experience with managing digital products or multichannel brands
Able to follow clear vision and strategy
Takes ownership
Able to foster creativity, teamwork and collaboration
Communicates clearly

Package Description:

Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.

25 days holiday + bank holidays
Discounted high street vouchers

Internal Bauer Academy

Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development (Bauer Media Group
Academy: Posts | LinkedIn)
Opportunity to buy additional holiday
Company pension
Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)

Thrive initiatives

Wellbeing at Bauer

Flexible Working

We want to make sure that we find the right people to work in our teams, and we know that the traditional 9-5, five days a week doesn't suit everyone.

So, we would love to hear from you if you feel you're a great fit for this role and would like to work flexibly.

If you are the right person for this role, we'll find the right working approach for you.

About the Company:

About Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media Group has become an enduringly successful media corporation by focusing on creating content that matters most to millions of people around the world: from print and online publishing to radio and money-helper services for consumers, as well as sales and marketing services for SMB.

Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer focuses on the long term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our increasingly diverse portfolio.

Our workforce of 15,000 shares a passion - to deliver content and services that are popular with, and helpful to, our customers and partners.

As the UK's biggest selling magazine publisher, we create iconic and influential magazine media brands, digital properties and associated consumer and B2B live events for diverse, passionate audiences.

We reach 25 million consumers through our portfolio, which includes heat, Grazia, Closer, Empire, Motor Cycle News, Parkers, Mother& Baby, TV Choice, Take a Break, Bella, Yours, Garden News and Country Walking.

Our scale, coupled with the breadth of our portfolio, gives us an advantage over pure play magazine competitors. It also gives us a huge responsibility - our brands become the lens through which our audiences see the world, and for this rea