Sales Support Administrator - Times Travel (12 Month FTC)

Your team: The travel partnerships team is a motivated team of travel and adventure lovers. Working alongside the commercial travel sales team, the partnerships team is currently a team of seven, who work across Times Media and The Sun via both print and digital channels. The partnerships team oversee a portfolio of third party holiday companies and select specific travel products that they sell to News UK audiences on a direct to consumer marketing basis - generating a successful revenue stream via commissions and media packages. Your role: This supporting role is integral to the Partnership team's success, with responsibility for all the sales reporting, financial processing and analytical requirements. Reporting to : Head of Partnerships, Travel Day to day you will:

• Manage aspects of financial reporting to the internal finance team (weekly and monthly)
• Collate, process and analyse weekly third party sales reports
• Manage month end reporting - revenue reporting, reconciliations and invoicing
• Manage data uploads to Excel and other data CMS platforms
• Manage KPI reporting documents - Excel or Gdocs
• Manage weekly performance presentation - PP or Gdocs
• Set up new suppliers in the system, coordinate credit checks and manage all reporting processes with third party suppliers
• Performance analysis - create supplier reports for regular meetings and ad hoc analysis for the team, upon request
• General Partnerships support, when required
  
  This role is suited to a well organised person who thrives in a busy environment with various deadlines. You need to enjoy working autonomously but equally be a strong team player.
Demonstrative experience working with:
• Internal and external stakeholder management
• Intermediate level Excel
• Content Management Systems
• Working with data
• Performing analytical tasks
• Creating powerpoint presentations
  
  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 (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

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