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Your team: Growing audio revenues are becoming increasingly important for the success of The Times brand. We are seeking a Podcast Lead to join our successful digital sales team within Times Media London. The digital specialist team sits within our agency brand team, the heart of the commercial publishing team, experts on our Times brand. Be part of a team and brand going through an exciting transformation driving our digital first strategy, products & leading first party data tools to our agencies and clients.

Your Role: You will be tasked with driving the Times Media podcast offering across all digital platforms. Working with the Digital Director and Strategy Director, you will help to develop and execute a sales strategy that will generate incremental podcast briefs and revenues.

Day to day you will:

• Work with the Digital Director to implement a sales strategy that maximises Podcast revenue from agencies and clients directly.


• Work strategically with our key senior audio stakeholders including programme directors, marketing teams & broadcasting teams to collaborate and ensure commercial success.


• Create Times Podcast sales collateral and opportunities to equip the wider Times Media sales team to educate the market on our offering, serving as the key internal and external podcast expert / figurehead.


• Work with commercial heads and individual account managers across News UK brands to collaboratively determine target clients and categories whilst ensuring Times Podcast sponsorships/campaigns are included across wider News UK solutions responses.


• Alongside our distribution and sales partners, forecast accurate revenue and communicate this to the key stakeholders across the business.


• Work with commercial sales and activation teams and key editorial/production stakeholders to consistently improve ideation and delivery of the sold campaigns whilst ensuring best-in-class service for clients.


• Create, own, and maintain a sales pipeline of AV & digital audio clients/leads to invest across our Times Media podcasts portfolio.


• Work closely with key distribution and sales partners to maximise the podcast ad fill rates & revenue.
  
  Experience in the commercial podcast space, with a clear understanding of digital audio monetisation


• Knowledge of UK commercial media, agency and client processes and business objectives


• Record of success in creating & selling bespoke advertising solutions and partnerships


• A passion for the digital audio and podcast space with an eye for creativity and innovation alongside a personal drive to produce award-winning work.


• Proven track record in building and nurturing internal and external relationships across a wide spectrum of agency disciplines.
  
  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, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our 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: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;


• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;


• 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 covering pre-existing conditions


• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes


• 'Bikes for Work' scheme


• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling


We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
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