Segment Production Editor, Today's Golfer

BAUER MEDIA; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company is seeking a Production Editor to oversee the monthly production cycle of Today's Golfer magazine. This role involves ensuring high standards of copy and layout while adhering to the brand’s style. The position offers a hybrid working model requiring 1-2 days in the office. Ideal candidates will have advanced knowledge in production and editing, especially within InDesign, and a passion for the golf industry is preferred. This full-time position includes 28 days holiday and career development opportunities.

Benefits

28 days holiday

Access to Bauer Academy for training

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• Ability to work collaboratively or independently and communicate with stakeholders.
• Generate high-quality copy ensuring brand consistency.
• Maintain accuracy in grammar and tone.

Responsibilities

• Steer Today's Golfer magazine through its production cycle.
• Work with editorial and production teams to meet deadlines.
• Ensure all content adheres to house style.

Skills

High level GPS knowledge

Highly proficient in subbing on InDesign

Proficient use of Censhare

Working knowledge of Monday.com

Interest/knowledge of golf

Job description

The Focus of the Role:

As part of a busy, talented team of Production Editors and Designers, the main focus of your role will be steering Today's Golfer magazine through its monthly production cycle, with support where necessary.

You’ll ensure that all copy and layouts are of a consistently high standard, adhering to house style. Your overall objective is to guarantee the brand is consistent, error‑free, looks good and reads wonderfully.

You will also be required to work across other titles as directed by the Group Production Lead.

You will have a hybrid working model, meaning 1 to 2 days per week in our Peterborough office and the rest working from home.

Please note: This is a 12 month FTC.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the Group Production Lead and brand editorial teams to forward‑plan the brand(s) production schedule and to set deadlines for features within individual issues.
• Working firmly, but sensitively, with other departments to ensure deadlines are met on all types of pages, including marketing, commercial etc.
• Subbing/editing/proofing raw copy, pages and digital channels of the brand and all promotions, ensuring they are of a consistently high standard, contain no errors and adhere to house style.
• Working to multiple flat plans and tight or reactive content/late changes, and tight deadlines, alongside internal stakeholders.
• Writing/supervising headlines and intros, clearing them with the Group Production Lead or Group Editor.
• Alerting the Group Production Lead or Group Editor when copy, layouts or proofs aren’t up to the required standard.
• Assisting the Group Production Lead in managing the flow of copy and proofs around the office, ensuring as much as possible that there are no bottlenecks or gaps, and that the Art and Production desks are working at a manageable and consistent rate.
• Working closely with the Art team to ensure that layouts complement copy, and that the design and pictures work with the copy. Alerting the Group Editor to any problems with layouts.
• Assigning work on the production desk and managing its progress to ensure properly subbed pages at the required rate.
• Checking subbed page proofs before passing them on, paying particular attention to headlines, sells and picture captions.
• Ensuring that all pages are legally sound, getting them checked by the solicitor when necessary.
• Each article delivered and sub edited to a high level of accuracy, to deadline.
• Working fast and flexibly to deadline, creating and amending flat plans, troubleshooting issues.
• Passing proofs on to the relevant team members.
• Ensuring corrections are properly incorporated into proofs.
• Carrying out final reads of proofs, ensuring them to be error‑free. Keeping a constant check at this stage that all pages fit properly into the issue as a whole, with no clashes or duplication.
• Final approval of pages and advertorials.
• Management of freelance resource for production.

What You’ll Bring:

• High level GPS knowledge (WoodWing preferable).
• Highly proficient in subbing on InDesign.
• Proficient use of Censhare and in sending to printers.
• Have a working knowledge of Monday.com.
• Have an interest/knowledge of golf, or play golf (advantage)
• Ability to work collaboratively with teams or independently and to communicate with a range of stakeholders.
• Generate consistently high-quality copy and proofs, ensuring that the brand contains no mistakes.
• Originality in headlines and intros to maintain brand’s competitive advantage.
• Maintain a commitment to accuracy of grammar, spelling, language, tone and sense.
• Contributes ideas for developing the brand.
• Willingness to work across multiple brands and channels, including digital.
• Ability to create and adapt flat plans continuously to support those titles that are more reactive to planning changes.

Closing Date: Sunday 21st December

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family‑owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long‑term, with a consumer‑first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing [e-mail].

We are actively recruiting for this position, however, the job advert may close earlier than expected.

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Location:
London, GB, NW1 2PL