AddressJob Description
The Team: The Publishing team within News UK’s commercial department is responsible for the sales, operations and commercial product strategy and partnerships for News UK’s publishing brands including The Sun, The Times and Sunday Times. The Studio team operates in a guild capacity across both The Sun and The Times business units and is responsible for the ideation, creation and delivery of all branded content across all respective media brands.
Your Role: As a Content Solutions Partner you will sit as part of the Studio team and will be responsible for developing our most significant cross-platform solutions in line with all requests for proposals from your agency patch across News UK brands, brand extensions and our Wireless properties. You must develop ideas that are aligned with our brands and add value to the reader, as well as offer the client a tailored, on-brief solution.
Day to day:
Interrogate and win agency briefs to deliver imaginative, best-in-class solutions which convert to revenue by meeting client objectives.
Take ownership of ideas and the presentation creation, working in collaboration with Creative and Audience Planning teams.
Collaborate across commercial teams to seek out, sell and implement new revenue opportunities.
Develop a deep understanding of our publishing brands and their editorial pillars on each platform, including the commercial offering and benefits of each.
Proactively build and maintain strong relationships within your agency patch through regular contact with partnership teams.
Provide excellent levels of customer service, always willing to go the extra mile.
Work with key stakeholders across the Publishing Team and within Studio to help develop new and innovative partnership ideas that will entice existing and new clients to spend additional revenue across multiple platforms.
Produce accurate analytical and financial information when requested.
What we’re looking for from you:
You will have a strong cross-platform creative approach, with a proven track record of developing insight-led ideas that answer agency solutions briefs and meet key client objectives.
Thrives in a highly autonomous environment with demonstrable entrepreneurial skills, able to work collaboratively with others .
Knowledgeable and curious about the latest developments in content partnerships within the wider market.
You will have considerable experience of dealing with the most senior agency personnel including, but not limited to, Heads of Partnerships, Investment and Strategy.
You will have excellent presentation skills and experience of delivering your ideas with conviction to large groups of senior marketers.
Be extremely proficient in the use of PowerPoint / Google Slides to help the team create best in class proposal documents, which include mock-ups where necessary.
Proven track record of success within a media sales environment, selling across multiple platforms.
Good understanding of agency structure and buying process.
Familiarity with media research and measurement systems (Pamco, comscore, NRS, TGI).
What's in it for you?
We love our business and what we do. We want you to love work as much as we do so we promise to offer on-the-job training and development enabling you to be the best you can be.
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, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our 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: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.
In addition we also offer:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
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.
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
