Fashion Director

Job Description: Fashion Director

The Sun is the biggest news brand in the UK, publishing hundreds of stories a day and reaching over 170m unique users digitally every month. Its exclusives set the news agenda and its campaigns have changed the lives of many. Delivering news, entertainment, and sports coverage to millions of readers every day. With a rich history spanning decades, we are dedicated to providing accurate, insightful, and engaging content across print and digital platforms.

The Sun has a mass-market audience and aims to appeal to a diverse audience in the UK and beyond.

Your Role: We are seeking an exceptional Fashion Director to take a leadership role in the fashion division of our lifestyle brand. As a core member of our team, you will be responsible for driving commercial opportunities in the fashion sector while curating and managing digital fashion channels, including social media, and web content. You will also play a key part in styling fashion and magazine cover shoots, ensuring Fabulous maintains its reputation for innovation and quality.

Day to day you will:

• Develop and oversee engaging fashion content across digital channels, including social media platforms and the website.
• Identify and execute commercial fashion opportunities, including partnerships, sponsorships, and collaborations with brands.
• Mentor the existing team, helping them to grow their social followings and secure revenue
• PR and Industry Networking - Leverage your extensive network of senior PR contacts to secure partnerships, and exclusive content opportunities.
• Utilise your social media following to amplify the brand’s reach and engagement, establishing it as a leader in the digital fashion space.
• Develop strategies to grow followers and subscribers across all platforms, ensuring consistent engagement and loyalty.

What we are looking for from you:

• Experience in a senior editorial role within the fashion or lifestyle sector.
• Proven commercial experience, including managing partnerships and developing revenue-generating initiatives.
• A substantial and engaged social media following, with evidence of influencing audiences and driving digital engagement.
• Established black book of senior PR and industry contacts, with the ability to leverage relationships for the brand’s success.
• Hands-on experience in styling and creative direction for shoots.
• Familiarity with digital marketing tools, analytics platforms, and content management systems.
• Strong editorial judgement with a deep understanding of fashion trends and audience preferences.
• Exceptional creative vision and ability to translate ideas into compelling visual content for shoots.
• Commercial acumen with a proven track record of monetising digital content and building revenue streams.

If you have the vision, experience, and connections to elevate our fashion division to new heights, we look forward to hearing from you. Apply now and be part of our journey to redefine digital fashion content.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

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.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

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
• Access to exclusive events Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books 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

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