Newstrade Marketing Executive

About the Role

An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen within the Immediate Media Newstrade Marketing Team to work on some of the biggest brands in the magazine market. You will work on major retail/trade marketing campaigns throughout the year, these include Christmas Radio Times, Christmas Good Food, the Spring Gardeners World campaign, and the Youth & Children’s Portfolio.

Job Opportunity

We are looking for a positive numerate individual to join our busy, friendly Newstrade Marketing team as our Newstrade Marketing Executive. This great opportunity is offered as a full time, permanent position, based in our Hammersmith office with hybrid working arrangements. The role will be reporting to one of the Senior Newstrade Marketing Manager (SNTM).

You will be responsible for providing vital support admin support, understanding market conditions, analysing sales and retail trends and both the planning and implementation of retail promotions. You will use your excellent communication skills to liaise with our publishing teams and external companies. 

Your proactive approach will enable you to support our Newstrade Marketing Managers in proposing sales driving ideas to the team. Drawing on your planning and organisational skills, you will manage collating information to help shape and deliver our retail strategy.

Essential Skills

The key headline areas of responsibility and tasks of the role are as follows: 

·      Forecasting weekly sales on a wide range of magazine titles.

·  Liaising with Publishing and Frontline teams to provide information to external and internal personnel.

·      Assisting the team with business planning and budgeting.

·      Creating weekly sales reports.

·      Ensuring centralised databases are up to date.

·  Analysing market and retail data to provide support to the Newstrade team in decision-making process.

·      Planning and implementing retail promotional bookings.

Whilst not all of the below attributes are a necessity it would be desirable if the candidate could illustrate the following skills /experience:

·      Excellent analytical and numeracy skills

·      Good use of MS Office is essential (Excel, Word & PowerPoint)

·      Flexible and Resilient

·      Strong time management and organisation

·      First class attention to detail

·      Work well in a team and alone

·      Ability to multi-task

·      Good communication skills

·      Relationship management

About Company

Frontline Group is made up of Frontline, Gold Key Media and Routes to Retail. We’re the UK’s leading retail sales, marketing and distribution company working predominantly in the exciting and diverse areas of publishing and home entertainment.

Our key clients include publishers of iconic magazine brands such as Radio Times, Good Housekeeping, TV Choice, Heat, Top Gear, Grazia, Vogue, Slimming World, Cosmopolitan, Empire, National Geographic and 100’s more. We also work with major film studios managing their DVD presence within the grocery retail channel and are growing our reach in categories such as books and music with further category expansions on the horizon.

As a Distributor we work closely with UK and International retailers, wholesale, International Distributors and other parts of the supply chain to ensure our client’s sales, retail marketing and distribution objectives are met. Through our brand targeting and audience engagement agency Gold Key Media we develop sampling and marketing solutions, and we manage brand placement activities in the events, travel and hospitality sectors across the world.  

Frontline Group is owned by two of the world’s leading publishing companies, Bauer Media and Immediate Media Company (Hubert Burda Media). This will provide opportunities to grow your career across a number of different businesses and functions including brand marketing, sales, analytics, insight, finance, IT services, supply chain and publishing. We strongly believe in developing our own people and have a great track record of supporting and coaching our colleagues, who have then gone on to grow their career within our business.

Our teams are made up of the most talented and widely respected people in our industry and are seen as the experts in their fields. At the Frontline Group we celebrate our differences and ensure everyone feels welcome, trusted and valued for being their authentic selves.

All our roles offer an informal hybrid working option, combining in-office and remote/home working.

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DE&I

Bring ‘You’ to the interview

Diversity and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. We want to make sure that our selection processes are transparent and fair, providing a level playing field for anyone who wants to come and work with us. Therefore, if you require any adjustments to an interview process, please feel free to get in touch with who will be happy to discuss your needs in complete confidence.

Benefits

At the Frontline Group, we offer great development opportunities, enhanced family friendly leave and a range of salary sacrifice flexible benefits which you can select based on your lifestyle; benefit options include private medical insurance, holiday purchase and a tech scheme, to name a few. 

On top of that, we also offer: 

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro rata)  
• Contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance and income protection
• Executive coaching and mentoring available to all  
• Everyone has access to our EPIC approach to talent development
• Informal hybrid working  
• 2 paid volunteering days per annum
• Additional discretionary day and loyalty schemes
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme 
• Stuart House, Peterborough - On site gym, parking