Syndication Manager

HELLO! Magazine; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Your birthday off

Private Medical Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance (6 × salary)

Generous employer pension contributions

Group Income Protection Scheme

Job summary

A prominent lifestyle publication in Greater London is seeking a results-driven Syndication Manager to enhance their strategy on the Apple News platform. This full-time role involves maximizing reach and engagement, collaborating with editorial teams, and overseeing performance metrics. A successful candidate will possess strong analytical skills and a proven track record in digital media partnerships. Benefits include 25 days annual leave, private medical insurance, and generous employer pension contributions.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical ability to turn data into business recommendations.
• Demonstrated success in driving growth and engagement on digital platforms.
• Proficient in using analytical tools and performance data.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute syndication strategy for Apple News.
• Collaborate with editorial teams to optimize content for engagement.
• Oversee revenue forecasting and provide performance analysis.

Skills

Analytical ability

Commercial awareness

Excellent communication

Education

Relevant experience

Job description

Overview

Your mission We are seeking a highly analytical and results-driven Syndication Manager to lead our Syndication strategy and operations with a focus on the Apple News platform. This role is responsible for maximizing our reach, engagement, and revenue. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of content management, digital analytics, and the Apple News Publisher tools and policies. This role is full time with three days in the London office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). To apply please send in your CV and a covering letter.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a clear strategy for Apple News to maximise readership, engagement, and revenue.
• Act as the company’s subject-matter lead on Apple News policies, best practice, platform updates, and performance drivers.
• Collaborate with editorial teams to optimise content, packaging, headlines, and imagery for Apple News consumption.
• Conduct ongoing A/B testing to improve CTR, follows, dwell time, and referral traffic to owned properties.
• Own Apple News performance metrics — UVs, Time Spent, Follows, CTR, page views, and revenue — providing analysis and recommendations to editorial and leadership.
• Oversee revenue forecasting for Apple News+ and support commercial teams with insights into performance and opportunity.
• Work in collaboration with editorial teams who already hold relationships with Apple’s Publisher Partnerships and Technical Support teams.

Syndication Expansion

• Extend oversight to all syndication partners (e.g., SmartNews, Newsbreak, Microsoft Start, and others).
• Build and maintain best-practice guidelines for each platform, ensuring consistency across editorial and product workflows.
• Drive audience growth, engagement, and revenue across syndication as a whole.
• Manage pipeline reporting, forecasting, and performance tracking for the syndication department.
• Strengthen relationships with current and future syndication partners, identifying new opportunities and improvements.
• Lead weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting on syndication performance, delivering clear, actionable insights.
• Identify and support new revenue streams based on platform innovation, editorial trends, and audience behaviour.
• Work cross-functionally with Editorial, Product, Commercial, Ad Sales, SEO, and Engineering teams to support platform-specific initiatives.

Your profile

• Strong analytical ability, capable of turning complex data into clear insights and business recommendations.
• Demonstrated success in driving audience growth, engagement, or revenue across digital platforms.
• Strong commercial awareness, comfortable working with forecasting models and performance data.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset, able to collaborate across editorial, commercial, and technical teams.

Experience

• Significant experience in content syndication, digital media partnerships, audience development, or platform distribution.

Qualifications

Relevant experience is desirable.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave per year
• Your birthday off
• Private Medical Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance (6 × salary)
• Generous employer pension contributions
• Group Income Protection Scheme

About Us

MISSION STATEMENT To influence and inspire with relevant, exclusive and entertaining content in a positive, celebratory and kind environment via stringent editorial integrity.

History of Hello HELLO! is a market-leading lifestyle and celebrity publication, known for its positive and celebratory reporting and unrivalled showbiz exclusives which have been entertaining audiences since 1988. HELLO! is part of the HOLA group, who launched ¡HOLA! magazine in Barcelona in 1944. The husband and wife team of Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón launched the publication with the aim of adding some sparkle to their readers’ lives. Always positive, ¡HOLA! and HELLO! continue to remain true to the guiding principles of a new type of journalism - always positive, highly visual and celebratory, allowing readers a moment of escape into the worlds of the rich and famous to inspire, brighten and entertain. With offices in London, New York and Toronto, HELLO! Magazine is now a 24-hour global website, with unique user experiences in our three main audience territories of the UK, US and Canada. Our readership is more global than that however, with audiences also visiting the site from Australia, India, Europe and all other parts of the world.