Marketing Executive

The Team: Working within the Times Media Customer Growth department which is made up of marketing, data, insights, and business transformation/new business development teams. The customer is at the heart of everything we do and we are committed to creating and personalising products to meet their needs and desires, using data and insight to drive these.

Our focus is to engage, inform, inspire and entertain customers with our content, delivering it to them on multiple platforms, whilst maximising customer revenue generation from partnerships, products and business extensions that they trust and value. Growing our digital future is key while maximising our significant print audience.

Your Role: As Marketing Executive, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to help create and deliver brand and marketing activity for the The Times Media portfolio including The Times and Sunday Times, Times Radio, Times Literary Supplement and more. From surfacing our quality journalism to new readers, driving trialists and subscriptions, to acquiring app installs and radio listeners, you’ll work across our varied and evolving brands. The role will be working into the Marketing Manager.

Day to day you will:

• Write insightful creative and media briefs for a variety of campaigns for our in-house channels (radio, press and digital) and paid digital campaigns across a range of platforms (Meta, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, Google).
• Lead a variety of in-house advertising campaigns through creative development, giving feedback to our creative agency and liaising with in-house teams to approve and deliver assets in a timely manner.
• Support the Marketing Manager on delivery of larger media campaigns.
• Collaborate closely with Performance Marketing, CRM and Bookshop teams, editorial contacts and our in-house creative agency when working on campaigns and brand initiatives.
• Review performance of in-house channels and sale offer creative, identify new opportunities and provide recommendations to enhance results, bringing in competitor learnings and insight.
• Stay up to date with platform and industry trends and share any new developments, innovations or opportunities with the wider team.
• Manage the weekly press plan, identifying priorities and working closely with our in-house creative agency on the ad placement.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Experience working in a marketing role for a major brand, news category experience is beneficial but not essential.
• Experience working with a creative agency and managing campaigns in digital channels from brief to delivery is essential, experience of producing creative for performance marketing is useful.
• A confident writer with a sharp eye for detail and experience in proofing both copy and creative materials to ensure consistency and quality.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams with different levels of stakeholders.
• A passion for news and culture and strong knowledge of the media landscape
• Self starter who can thrive in a fast paced environment juggling multiple priorities.
• Proactive, can-do approach, ability to efficiently manage your time and workload.

News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Times and The Sunday Times, and The Sun. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.

What's in it for you?

We love our business and what we do. We want you to love work as much as we do so we promise to offer on-the-job training and development enabling you to be the best you can be.

NewsUK Benefits

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK. Alongside pay, we offer:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
• A comprehensive private medical scheme covering pre-existing conditions;
• Maternity leave of up to 18 weeks full basic salary and paternity leave of up 2 weeks full basic salary;
• Discounted rates for Fitness First gym membership for employees and immediate family;
• A range of different flexible working options, which can be requested by employees;
• Interest free commuter loan of up to £10,000 tax free
• ‘Bikes For Work’ scheme to save income tax and national insurance;
• Up to four Volunteering Days per year for employees to use on charities of choice;
• Health and wellbeing benefits including on-site physio/massage, counselling, legal and others,
• Regular inhouse events and masterclasses
• Wide range of internal and external training available, plus full eLearning access via LinkedIn Learning.

Equal opportunities:

We are a diverse team and strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential. We want to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised, utilised and celebrated.

News UK is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equal opportunities for all its employees and applicants. We oppose all forms of discrimination in the workplace.

We thrive when we champion diversity and inclusion. We make better decisions, we’re stronger and happier, and it’s the right thing to do.