Description

Our Team:
We are a lively team responsible for the planning, creation and co-ordination of a tremendous amount of advertising, across the whole of Bauer UK. This team is pivotal in ensuring complete customer satisfaction whether internal or external, and ensure that we always create advertising content, to the highest possible standard, to enable maximum engagement and return.
Focus of your role:
To successfully ensure that all advertising booked by the sales teams across our numerous brands, is planned on to the magazine flatplan, adhering to all guaranteed positional requirements, and sent to the production team within agreed timeframes.
Key responsibilities:
Establish close working relationships with Commercial Directors, Editorial and Advertising teams to accomplish a final magazine which has the best ad positioning that is right for our customers and for our editorial requirements.
Liaise with Commercial Directors, Managers, Advertising teams and Business Analysts to establish issue sizes, ad page positions and accurate forecasting.
Liaise with Production Editors and Ad Production to ensure all ads run within required positions
Maintain excellent relationships with sales teams.
Ensure sales teams work to credit fix and copy deadlines.
Ensure options are managed and sales are aware of the availability for each title
Make sure teams are kept up to date throughout the process to ensure timely and accurate decisions are made on ad positions, issue sizes and ad page count.
Highlight immediately to the Commercial Directors / Sales Team Managers any issues that arise, escalating to Ad Production Manager for support where necessary.
Keep Editorial Production Managers updated on new flatplans.
Work with the Ad Production Manager to ensure the best flat planning process is established and continually developed to strengthen areas of weakness.
Coach sales staff on best practice with all booking errors within the sales system.
Ensure any potential delays or issues affecting the Ad Production workflow, is highlighted to them in a timely manner.
Be flexible and willing to adopt and champion all new systems that help improve optioning and flat planning.
Be proficient in Adpoint and Censhare (full training provided.)
What you will bring:
Excellent communication & relationship building
Attention to detail & organisational skills
Passion & enthusiasm
Integrity & teamwork
Forward thinking and problem solving
Closing Date: Sunday 28th April
Package Description
Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.
25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days 
Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development 
Opportunity to buy additional holiday
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay 
Company pension 
Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives  
Discounted high street vouchers
About Bauer Media Group
Bauer Media Group has become an enduringly successful media corporation by focusing on creating content that matters most to millions of people around the world: from print and online publishing to radio and money-helper services for consumers, as well as sales and marketing services for SMB. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer focuses on the long term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our increasingly diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 15,000 shares a passion – to deliver content and services that are popular with, and helpful to, our customers and partners.
As the UK’s biggest selling magazine publisher, we create iconic and influential magazine media brands, digital properties and associated consumer and B2B live events for diverse, passionate audiences.  We reach 25 million consumers through our portfolio, which includes heat, Grazia, Closer, Empire, Motor Cycle News, Parkers, Mother& Baby, TV Choice, Take a Break, Bella, Yours, Garden News and Country Walking.  Our scale, coupled with the breadth of our portfolio, gives us an advantage over pure play magazine competitors. It also gives us a huge responsibility - our brands become the lens through which our audiences see the world, and for this reason, we take our responsibilities as a media outlet very seriously, recognising that we are responsible for shaping perceptions in the wider world.
Belonging at Bauer Mission statement
People are at the heart of everything we do. Inclusivity is part of who we are. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, and encourage authenticity, knowing that our differences are celebrated.
What we will offer you
Quite simply, our promise to you is that Bauer Media is a great place to do great work with great people. Our people take an enormous amount of pride in the brands they support. They like their team members, and they feel supported by their managers. We all take collective responsibility for our culture, because we know it has a ripple effect out across our brands. That’s why our culture of inclusion at work, Belonging at Bauer, is at the heart of everything we do. Belonging at Bauer is about our dual goals of being as representative as we can of the audiences we serve, and about creating a working environment where all our people feel able to bring their whole selves to work every day. It’s part of everything we do, and everyone who works here is responsible. If you join us, you’ll be an important part of this as well.
Our mental health at work
We’re proud to be the driving force behind the “Where’s your head at?” campaign, which is working to put Mental Health First Aiders on an equal footing with traditional workplace First Aiders. This is a priority for all of us that work at Bauer and we now have fully trained Mental Health First Aiders supporting and working across all of our UK locations.
Learning and Development
As the only Media company to be in the top 100 apprenticeship employers, we are striving to always be a great place to do great work for all, Bauer is committed to offering learning and development initiatives through its Bauer Academy tailored to its people, empowering teams and individuals to grow and progress in their careers.
Please Note: We are actively seeking this position. You should hear from us within 48 hours of the expiry date. Please note on some occasions the role may be closed before date shown or need to be extended.
Bauer Core Values
Passion
We LOVE what we do – it inspires, unifies and challenges us. Our passion is contagious – both loud and quiet, making the impossible possible.
Excellence
Our desire for excellence fuels our ambition for personal and business growth.
Trust
We value honesty and integrity. Trust is our foundation, empowering our people to live up to their full potential.
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is our pursuit of opportunity – we are agile, focused and resourceful.
If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.