Our Team:
You’ll be working within a small team to produce an incredibly successful national women’s fortnightly magazine. Yours is a well-established and much-loved title that through its varied and targeted content has a strong connection with its readers. The magazine prides itself on its community focus, trusted advice and warm and friendly tone that resonates with so many of our loyal readers.
The Main Focus of the Role:
To support the group editor/deputy editor to help plan and commission the content, liaising with content teams to develop story ideas, guide writers and edit exceptional content across print and digital, setting deadlines and managing the workflow process.
This is a hands-on role involving writing, reviewing and editing their publication’s core content and have an agile approach to meeting audience needs across different channels as required.
While the role is supportive, deputising and making editorial decisions in the absence of a senior editor, you will also oversee and take responsibility for your own editorial section (e.g lifestyle section, Specials & One Shots).
Key Responsibilities:
- Will act up as Deputy Editor in their absence, making editorial decisions and creating covers
- Key contributor in content planning meetings with key stakeholders/content leads
- Work closely with commercial teams to help develop and write creative editorial/advertorial ideas
- Plan and collaborate with online team helping to produce relevant and targeted affiliate content
- Plan, manage and edit lifestyle section of the mag, with particular focus on Health and Wellbeing, alongside beauty, fashion, homes, cookery and gardening.
- To maintain high standards and quality of content; editing team output to agreed quality (sub-editing, legals, photos ready to pass pages to production team)
- Build relationships with internal and external partners – e.g relationship with content hub/overseas
- Ideation and content creation
- Commissioning where required
- Proof-reading pages prior to publication and ensuring any changes are updated in the base article
- Use planning on Monday.com and utilise new technology Proof-reading pages prior to publication
- Clear briefing to ensure quality and accuracy of content
Ensure writers have the capability to write once and the process reduces reworks
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What we’re looking for:
- Someone capable of deputising for deputy editor on all levels
- Strong writing, editing and proof-reading skills
- To gain proficiency with Monday, WW Assets and Studio through training that is provided
- Great planners: efficient, diary-driven and organised, with great attention to detail
- To be capable of producing consistent, high-quality core content across the portfolio
- Excellent communication skills: ability to prioritise and multi-task
- Ability to collaborate with a number of different content teams and lead on content re-use
Closing Date: 28th August
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 careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.