Syndication Manager

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

Job summary

A leading lifestyle publication in Greater London seeks a highly analytical Syndication Manager to lead their syndication strategy, focusing on Apple News. This full-time role requires expertise in content management and digital analytics, aimed at maximizing audience engagement and revenue. Responsibilities include developing strategies for Apple News, collaborating with editorial teams, and overseeing performance metrics across syndication. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in digital media and excellent communication skills.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Birthday off

Private Medical Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance (6 salary)

Generous employer pension contributions

Group Income Protection Scheme

Qualifications

• Strong analytical ability to transform complex data into actionable insights.
• Experience in content syndication and digital media partnerships.
• Strong commercial awareness and a proactive mindset.

Responsibilities

• Develop a strategy for Apple News to maximize engagement and revenue.
• Collaborate with editorial teams for optimizing content on Apple News.
• Oversee revenue forecasting and performance metrics for syndication.

Skills

Analytical ability

Content management

Digital analytics

Audience growth strategies

Communication skills

Job description

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.

Key Responsibilities

Apple News

• 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 (across all partners)

As the role expands you will :

• 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.

Over the years its digital brand has transformed from a small legacy publishing site into an influential global website.

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.