Your team: The Sun Marketing Team – the team covers everything from being the guardians of the brand proposition, to executing campaigns & the creative design and media planning that comes with that, plus digital marketing, CRM, brand led social executions and promotions.
Your role: The Marketing Manager role, reporting into the Marketing Director, will sit at the heart of a truly dynamic marketing team. With responsibility for campaign development, execution and media of an always on marketing calendar this is a rare opportunity to be part of a transformational period in the marketing of the UK’s biggest news brand. There’s never a dull day at The Sun.
Day to day you will:
- Campaign development & execution – you will lead the end to end process of campaign development, from writing the brief, delivering it, being the main point of contact to the creative agency for campaign development, including leading all feedback sessions through to landing the multichannel execution.
- Media – you will write the media briefs, deliver them to the agency and be responsible for the end of end process through to approval. As the main point of contact you will be fully immersed in the media world, bringing innovative media executions to the table.
- Strategic support – working closely with the Marketing Director to support the strategic development of The Sun’s 3-5 year marketing strategy as the pivot to a fully multimedia brand continues.
- Key point of contact for marketing to the wider business – regions / finance / CRM / Betting & Gaming / Retail / Legal etc.
What we’re looking for from you:
- Extensive marketing experience, accomplished in creative development of major marketing campaigns, the detailed execution of those campaigns and leading a multi million pound media budget. Minimum of 6 years marketing and brand experience.
- Digital first thinker – best in class experience of both digital media channels and digital creative executions, this will be first hand.
- Unflappable under pressure, ability to multitask and relentless in pursuing success.
- Fully creative mindset – we thrive on new ideas and have the ability to make them happen the same day,
- Passionate about The Sun brand and can demonstrate an understanding of The Sun brand, both print and digital.
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.
News UK
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