Editorial Assistant, Gardening

Editorial Assistant, Gardening Peterborough, England

Bauer Media Group
Full Time Peterborough, England 22394 - 26291 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Date: 15 Sep 2023
Location: Peterborough, GB, PE2 6EA
Req ID: 1080
The Focus of the Role:

To assist with the smooth running of the busy editorial teams at Garden News, Garden Answers and Landscape magazines. Give the teams support to function efficiently by carrying out essential administrative duties, while at the same time acting as a representative for the titles to the general public and trade, and being willing to take on any reasonable tasks as requested by the magazine editors.

Time is split 3/5 Garden News, 1/5 Garden Answers, 1/5 Landscape (though spread across any given week).

Key Responsibilities:

Finance
  • Make sure contributors to Garden News, Garden Answers and Landscape are paid for their words and pictures. Keep an accurate budget and alert editors if there are issues around cost control and spending each week/month, including freelance costs, photo agencies etc. Highlight any material variances to the editor as appropriate
  • Monitoring freelance workers and ensuring timesheets are completed in time for payroll sign off
  • Completing product spends for all titles each month within agreed timescale set by market BA.
  • Processing incoming invoices by raising purchase orders, one off payments or self bill payments as appropriate, completing relevant forms as required for new suppliers/freelancers. Processing all tasks on Proactis
  • Ensuring expenses for editorial staff are processed correctly
  • Liaison with commercial team to ensure commission statements from reader offers are managed efficiently
  • Ensuring Landscape syndication availability list is completed accurately each month

Office management/general administration
  • Managing the magazine inboxes. Answering reader queries in a friendly, professional and helpful way, responding to enquiries and directing queries to correct departments.
  • Acting as point of contact for other departments/magazines.
  • Sending out voucher copies of magazines

Online and Social Media
  • Updating Garden News website where necessary (for newsletters etc). Some social media output though this in conjunction with marketing teams and editors.

Generating content for magazines
  • Processing Garden Answers letters and queries and forward to other team members
  • Working with Landscape editorial team to source competition prizes
  • Liaising with writers to assist in magazine/online features as appropriate
  • Working with editors/writers to ensure commissioned freelancers have signed appropriate contracts
  • Liaising with production editors to assist in smooth running of Woodwing Studio

What You'll Bring:

  • Flexibility
  • Organisation
  • Initiative and ability to prioritise
  • Self motivation
  • Enthusiasm
  • Team player
  • Computer literate

Closing Date: Sunday 1st October

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.

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.

Editorial Assistant, Gardening
Bauer Media Group

www.bauermedia.com
Hamburg, Germany
Yvonne Bauer
$500 million to $1 billion (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Private
Publishing
1875
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