Commercial Podcast Manager

News UK; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in the UK is looking for a passionate individual to join the Octave Sales Team, focusing on podcast revenue. The role involves collaborating with internal teams and client engagements to exceed targets while shaping strategy for podcast offerings. Candidates should have a strong background in digital media, exceptional communication skills, and a drive for success. The position offers hybrid working and a supportive culture, making it a prime opportunity for growth in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Discounted gym memberships

Generous pension scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Access to exclusive events

Qualifications

• Good knowledge of media, agency, and client processes.
• Demonstrable experience in digital media space.
• Proven track record in building relationships.

Responsibilities

• Support strategy for expanding Octave podcast offering.
• Exceed podcast revenue targets and KPIs.
• Manage live briefs and campaigns from booking to activation.

Skills

Media knowledge

Digital advertising

Communication

Presentation

Organizational skills

Relationship building

Education

Experience in digital media

Advanced interest in UK media industry

Job description

Overview

Octave has a unique data offering, combining rich, logged-in publisher data from News UK alongside data enrichment partnerships to enable highly targeted digital audio and video campaigns. Octave can offer brands and agencies a broad range of precise, addressable user segments based on first party data to ensure advertising effectiveness. This is an exciting role within the Octave Sales Team, helping to commercialise the Octave podcast portfolio. The role requires both active selling to media agencies across the market but also facilitating the wider sales teams on active campaign briefs. The role works closely with senior brand stakeholders to ensure the commercial team is aligned with new podcast launches across our networks. Reporting into the Head of Podcasts - Commercial, this role will be responsible for driving and delivering sponsorship, spot and programmatic revenue across Octave podcasts.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Podcasts - Commercial, in driving strategy on how to expand and improve the existing Octave podcast offering.
• Exceed podcast revenue targets and KPI's, delivering sponsorship, spot ad and programmatic revenue across all Octave podcast brands.
• Support the wider Digital Sales and Business Development Teams across all Agency Hubs; determine target clients and verticals and educate internal teams with best-in-class digital knowledge and practices.
• Alongside the Commercial Podcast Executive, ensure day to day management of all live briefs and campaigns from booking to activation.
• Proactively approach target clients with a focus on long-term podcast sponsorship opportunities.
• Attend internal brainstorming sessions and provide responses to campaign briefs.
• Create presentations, reports and sales collateral for both clients and the wider sales teams to deliver to market.
• Create and deliver partnership opportunities and revenues complementing wider News UK solutions and responses.
• Work with digital, sales, activation and editorial stakeholders to consistently improve ideation, end-to-end delivery, to ensure world-class service and delivery for our clients.

Qualifications

• A good knowledge of media, agency and client processes and business objectives.
• Advanced interest in the UK media industry, with a passion for podcasts.
• Demonstrable experience of working within the digital media space, ideally with podcasts, with creativity and a personal drive to create award-winning work.
• Proven track record of building and nurturing relationships across a wide spectrum of agency disciplines.
• Exceptional communication, presentation and organisational skills.
• Proven experience in digital advertising, ad tech, or media, with a strong understanding of programmatic platforms and data strategy.
• Strong commercial experience with demonstrable abilities to deliver sales targets.

Octave is News UK's premium, data-fuelled video and audio monetisation business, providing highly targeted digital audio and video advertising. Octave combines inventory from News UK's media brand portfolio, including talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK and Times Radio, alongside premium inventory partners to reach over 14.5 million highly engaged listeners monthly. News UK is 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 and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local 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 multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Life at News UK is 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. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy. At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• 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%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year