Senior Campaign Executive

12 Month FTC

We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning audio, TV and video content for millions of people across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Life sounds good with Virgin Radio - home to The Chris Evans Breakfast Show. talkSPORT, the world’s biggest sports radio station, delivers the very best live sport and analysis and is an official broadcaster of the Premier League. Launched in June 2020 Times Radio brings together the peerless journalistic expertise of The Times and The Sunday Times with world-class broadcast talent including John Pienaar and Aasmah Mir. Plus Talk The Home Of Common Sense, hosting Mike Graham and Julia Hartley-Brewer.

The Team: We are the News Broadcasting Marketing team, dedicated to building campaigns, creativity, media planning and growing our broadcasting brands - including talkSPORT, Virgin Radio and Talk.

Your Role: As the Senior Campaign Executive for News Broadcasting you will be dedicated to driving our paid competitions strategy forwards. Sitting firmly in the marketing team, the role will require a hands-on self-starter to bring our campaign strategy to life across our various Broadcasting Brands. You’ll be the go-to person for all things competitions, liaising daily with our programming, commercial and legal teams to ensure we plan and execute our campaigns in a creative and timely manner, whilst maximising our business objectives.

Day to day you will:

• Lead and execute our paid competitions across talkSPORT, Virgin Radio and Talk
• Be the key go-to person for all things competitions related, working extremely closely with various teams across the business
• Drive creativity across our future competitions, constantly thinking how we can bring them to life with our various talent and brands, such as Chris Evans for Virgin Radio and Alan Brazil for talkSPORT
• Analyse and optimise all of our campaigns, working hand-in-hand with our provider, Fonix, to deliver best-in-class campaigns that maximise business outcomes
• Launch and execute all new campaigns but own the roadmap for future competitions, including working with Programming and Commercial teams to source exciting prizes, which is a vital part of our ongoing strategy
• Ensure our competitions are compliant and legal having a consistent dialogue with the various teams
• Maximise digital channels across our websites, apps and CRM.

What we’re looking for from you:

• You are proactive and can pivot at pace, but remain focused in a fast-paced environment with multiple deliverables
• A previous background in marketing, campaign management would be required, and even better if you have paid competitions experience (but it’s not essential!)
• A people person - excellent stakeholder management skills, ability to engage with colleagues at all levels of seniority and drive our campaigns forward with multiple departments
• A strong commercial acumen, with a proactive approach on surfacing the paid competitions’ contribution to organisational targets
• Strong communication skills across the organisation, keeping stakeholders updated on the project status, clarity in briefing and articulating expectations from all stakeholders

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If you believe you have the skills and passion to succeed, even if you don’t meet every requirement on the list, we encourage you to apply. We value potential just as much as experience and are eager to hear from individuals who are enthusiastic about learning and growing with us.

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At News UK, we know the value of working together, which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Being in the office allows us to collaborate, innovate, and thrive as a team in our vibrant and dynamic workspace. Some roles may require more office-based days depending on the nature of the position, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter to learn more about what’s required for your role.

We are News UK: 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, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio 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 multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

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

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