Digital Project Manager - 12 Month FTC

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

Job Description

We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. talkSPORT, the world's biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is truly powered by its millions of fans. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio - home to Chris Evans at Breakfast and Ryan Tubridy at mid-mornings. Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar, Kate McCann and Andrew Neil.

Your Role: This is an exciting role within the News Broadcasting Commercial team to deliver award winning branded content and podcast campaigns across our full suite of market renowned brands. As our digital offering and revenue expands we need a driven individual who can collaborate with multiple commercial, editorial and production teams providing excellent customer service and delivery. The role will sit in the commercial campaign activation team.

Day to day you will:

• Work with commercial branded content and podcast teams to help formulate ideas, production timelines and costings on client briefs.
• Take control of production budgets and ensure campaigns are delivered with maximum profitability whilst delivering first class service.
• Upon client sign off, be the central point of all communication between the studio delivery teams, social leads, sales managers and wider activation teams to ensure effective delivery of all digital elements of the campaign. Your role will involve being the point person of all client communications on certain campaigns.
• Work with your digital sales colleagues, activation and key editorial stakeholders to consistently improve ideation & delivery of the sold campaigns, to ensure post sale world class service and delivery for our clients.
• Contribute to wider team projects and assist other members of the activation team.

What we're looking for from you:

• Demonstrable experience of working on content solutions deals with creativity and a personal drive to create award winning work.
• Proven track record of building and nurturing relationships across a wide spectrum of internal teams.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• 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
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].