Commercial Director Salary: £65,000- 70,000

EMAP Publishing Limited; Croydon; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Health plan

Life assurance

Private GP access

Cycle-to-work scheme

Pension scheme

Work from home August

Job summary

EMAP Publishing Limited in East Croydon is seeking a Commercial Director – Mortgages to lead a high performing team across MST and MFG. You will drive revenue through print, digital, content marketing, and events, managing key accounts and agency relationships.

The role requires a degree, proven leadership in a multi-platform sales environment, and a track record of achieving targets. Hybrid working and an attractive package with 40% bonus are offered.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent advantageous.
• Demonstrable experience leading a high performing, multi-platform commercial team in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven track record of successfully developing individuals through first rate coaching and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Create the audience and commercial propositions for publishing, awards and events.
• Update and refresh all sales collateral across publishing and events including client and market proposals, presentations, and media packs.
• Maintain key accounts top 20 clients on MST
• Key account top 10 clients on MFG
• Manage trading relationships with all key agencies
• Manage a sales team
• Monitor market share across all advertising clients
• Target new business and maintain prospect lists
• Create new content marketing and sponsorship ideas
• Work closely with editorial, production and ADOPs
• To conduct regular appraisals with your direct report/s, identifying stretching and developing objectives as appropriate.
• Organise and execute team training
• To deliver/exceed against brand monthly, quarterly, and annual sales targets (revenue/share/yield)
• Demonstrate clear sales leadership by assisting your direct reports to deliver best practice and revenues
• To develop and implement the operational sales plan for each product you are responsible for, on and offline, in line with the brand strategy as directed by MD
• To ensure effective communication of the sales strategy to your team.
• Forecast accurately on a rolling basis, current/next month and annualised revenue/profit by product where applicable.
• Manage divisional costs according to budget (e.g. expenses, ad promotion, recruitment costs, P&L of NPD)

Skills

Leadership

Commercial acumen

Negotiation

Team management

Education

Degree level

Job description

• Business: emap
• Department: Mortgage Strategy and Mortgage Finance Gazette
• Base Location: East Croydon
• Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent/Hybrid

Salary: £65,000- £70,000 DOE + 40% BONUS DOE

Overall Purpose of the Role:

As Commercial Director – Mortgages you will be responsible for creating, leading, and inspiring a high performing commercial team, across multiple revenue streams generating sustainable growth, year on year including: print and digital advertising, content marketing, event sponsorship and awards sponsorship across the Mortgage Strategy and Mortgage Finance Gazette publishing brands.

Key responsibilities:

• Create the audience and commercial propositions for publishing, awards and events
• Update and refresh all sales collateral across publishing and events including client and market proposals, presentations, and media packs
• Maintain key accounts top 20 clients on MST
• Key account top 10 clients on MFG
• Manage trading relationships with all key agencies
• Manage a sales team
• Monitor market share across all advertising clients
• Target new business and maintain prospect lists
• Create new content marketing and sponsorship ideas
• Work closely with editorial, production and ADOPs
• To conduct regular appraisals with your direct report/s, identifying stretching and developing objectives as appropriate.
• Organise and execute team training
• To deliver/exceed against brand monthly, quarterly, and annual sales targets (revenue/share/yield)
• Demonstrate clear sales leadership by assisting your direct reports to deliver best practice and revenues
• To develop and implement the operational sales plan for each product you are responsible for, on and offline, in line with the brand strategy as directed by MD
• To ensure effective communication of the sales strategy to your team.
• Forecast accurately on a rolling basis, current/next month and annualised revenue/profit by product where applicable.
• Manage divisional costs according to budget (e.g. expenses, ad promotion, recruitment costs, P&L of NPD)

Skills and experience:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent advantageous
• Demonstrable experience leading a high performing, multi-platform commercial team in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven track record of successfully developing individuals through first rate coaching and leadership

Core competencies:

• Commercial awareness with an appreciation of wider business strategies
• Sound understanding of Sales structure and processes
• Relationship Building, both internally and externally
• Excellent face to face communication and presentation skills
• World class sales skills including negotiation.
• influencing, creating urgency, and closing
• Demonstrates numeracy, accuracy, and attention to detail at all times
• Effective time management and organisational skills
• Proactively encourage collaboration to achieve team goals
• Develop an open, honest, and supportive team environment

Personal Attributes:

• Proactive work ethic
• Professional attitude
• Results orientated
• Well-presented and articulate
• Positive and enthusiastic
• Problem solver

N.B. The role profile identifies the key responsibilities and competencies required in the role. It is not an exhaustive list of tasks that need to be completed. The Company reserves the right to amend the role profile as the role develops with the business.

What we offer

Learning & Development:

At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees.

Our employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, events management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology. We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organisational objectives.

To support our employees’ career development, we have designed specialized programs, as well as other stand‑alone role‑specific and generic courses, under the emap academy.

Benefits: emap is part of Metropolis Group. Together, we are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees.

• 25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell additional days
• One additional day of leave per year- Celebration Day
• Health plan
• Life assurance
• Private virtual GP access
• Seasonal flu jabs available at the office
• Continuous learning & development opportunities
• In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Discounted gym memberships
• Retail discount vouchers
• Rail season ticket loans
• Pension scheme
• One paid volunteer day per year
• Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations
• Work from home during August
• Income protection and more

Privacy: Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. You can see our privacy policy at www.metropolis.co.uk/privacy.

Diversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.