AddressYour team: The TLS (Times Literary Supplement) is the world’s leading journal for literature and ideas. Since 1902, the TLS have been publishing expert reviews and insightful, sometimes provocative, essays by the best writers from around the globe. From biography to history, fiction to philosophy, politics to science, TLS readers enjoy the breadth and depth of writing from the world’s greatest thinkers. Subscribers enjoy our content online at tls.co.uk, in the weekly print magazine, by downloading our app, as well as listening to our podcast. Subscribers also have unlimited access to the TLS archive.
Your role: Times Media is looking for a Business lead responsible for setting business strategy and financial plans to drive scalable growth of the Times Literary Supplement. Reporting to the Business Growth Director, this core role will be managing the P&L, creating plans and aligning resources to improve the profitability of the business.
Day to day you will:Work with teams across the organisation including Product, Editorial, Operations, Sales, Licensing and Marketing, you’re a team player who brings people together, inspiring and motivating to drive results. Data-led, customer-centric and results-driven, you’ll be a self-starter with a proven track record of driving business profitability. You will proactively manage the growth of the TLS portfolio for print, digital, international, group and student subscriptions. With subscribers in 72 countries around the world, the TLS enjoys an established UK market as well as a large US subscriber base, the growth of which will be a key focus for this role, alongside the nurture of print customers to digital.
Set and support business strategy and financial plans to deliver on OKRs
Create plans and align resources to improve profitability and deliver strong results.
Oversee and drive product integration with the wider business following a recent tech re-platforming.
Liaise with operations for cost control to ensure profitability.
Identify new audiences for TLS, developing the TLS propositions portfolio, defining the channels to market and, owning the product roadmap.
Engagement with our US/Canada operations, liaising with US print and fulfilment to ensure alignment with our UK team.
Work with the retail team to ensure availability and cost control. Work with licencing to expand and deepen the partnerships network and optimise advertising revenue.
Partner with the TLS editorial team to understand their business objectives and update on plans for the product.
What we’re looking for from you:
A strong understanding of managing cross-functional teams to deliver outstanding results.
Commercially minded with experience in managing a P&L
Confident and experienced in influencing key management stakeholders.
Confident with financial modelling and business casing
Strong ability to work autonomously and define what needs to be done
An understanding of the product development cycle and agile methodology
Experience developing propositions and offers that support subscriber LTV
Strong understanding of the customer lifecycle within a subscription business
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
