Job description
Date: 21 Aug 2023
Location:
Peterborough, GB, PE2 6EA
Req ID: 1058
The Focus of the Role:
As Affiliate Editorial Assistant you will be working at the heart of Bauer Media’s trail-blazing Content Commerce Team, providing crucial support through the planning, implementation and monitoring of editorial projects and branded content campaigns.
Working alongside the Commercial Content Editors you will be at the sharp end of emerging editorial strategies and ecommerce delivery for Bauer’s flagship affiliate brands, including; Grazia, Motorcycle News, Heatworld, Closer, Mother and Baby, and What’s the Best.
What You'll Do:
This is an all-encompassing role that will see you taking on editorial tasks and projects that interact with colleagues across a spectrum of teams – from SEO, product development, insights and data, marketing, and beyond. You'll be managing projects, strengthening ties with our international affiliate colleagues, and working with writers to deliver branded content campaigns.
Prior experience in these areas is optional – more important are strong presenting and communicating skills, the organisation of yourself and others, plus a desire to learn and get stuck in.
Key areas of responsibility are:
- Assisting with the administration and planning of editorial and affiliate commercial projects
- Timetabling and arranging milestone meetings
- Liaising with stakeholders business-wide in the delivery of KPIs
- Supporting the senior editorial team with projects and priorities
- Managing the editorial calendar, especially around key sales events
What does a great job look like?
- Keeping the cogs of the commercial content team running smoothly
- Excellent and effectively communication with the editorial team and the wider Bauer business
- Consistent prioritisiation of your workload, within agreed deadlines
- Project meetings arranged at key milestones, efficiently communicated to stakeholders
- Enthusiasm for tasks big and small, with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Ability to respond to changing plans and tasks quickly
What You'll Bring:
You are an organised person who thrives in an environment where speed and accuracy matter. You can be relied on to treat tasks and information with confidentiality and integrity. Flexible in working closely with colleagues or independently, you are consistent and dependable, and enthusiastic about the opportunities this role offers.
Closing Date: Wednesday 6th September
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 + 2 volunteer days
- Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development
- Opportunity to buy additional holiday
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
- 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
- Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives
- Discounted high street vouchers
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 reason, we take our responsibilities as a media outlet very seriously, recognising that we are responsible for shaping perceptions in the wider world.
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 reason, we take our responsibilities as a media outlet very seriously, recognising that we are responsible for shaping perceptions in the wider world.
Belonging at Bauer Mission statement
People are at the heart of everything we do. Inclusivity is part of who we are. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, and encourage authenticity, knowing that our differences are celebrated.
What we will offer you
Quite simply, our promise to you is that Bauer Media is a great place to do great work with great people. Our people take an enormous amount of pride in the brands they support. They like their team members, and they feel supported by their managers. We all take collective responsibility for our culture, because we know it has a ripple effect out across our brands. That’s why our culture of inclusion at work, Belonging at Bauer, is at the heart of everything we do. Belonging at Bauer is about our dual goals of being as representative as we can of the audiences we serve, and about creating a working environment where all our people feel able to bring their whole selves to work every day. It’s part of everything we do, and everyone who works here is responsible. If you join us, you’ll be an important part of this as well.
Our mental health at work
We’re proud to be the driving force behind the “Where’s your head at?” campaign, which is working to put Mental Health First Aiders on an equal footing with traditional workplace First Aiders. This is a priority for all of us that work at Bauer and we now have fully trained Mental Health First Aiders supporting and working across all of our UK locations.
Learning and Development
As the only Media company to be in the top 100 apprenticeship employers, we are striving to always be a great place to do great work for all, Bauer is committed to offering learning and development initiatives through its Bauer Academy tailored to its people, empowering teams and individuals to grow and progress in their careers.
Please Note: We are actively seeking this position. You should hear from us within 48 hours of the expiry date. Please note on some occasions the role may be closed before date shown or need to be extended.
Bauer Core Values
Passion
We LOVE what we do – it inspires, unifies and challenges us. Our passion is contagious – both loud and quiet, making the impossible possible.
Excellence
Our desire for excellence fuels our ambition for personal and business growth.
Trust
We value honesty and integrity. Trust is our foundation, empowering our people to live up to their full potential.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is our pursuit of opportunity – we are agile, focused and resourceful.
If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process please email [email protected] we would love to hear from you.
Bauer Media Group
www.bauermedia.com
Hamburg, Germany
Yvonne Bauer
$500 million to $1 billion (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Private
Publishing
1875