Trading Executive

Location:

London

Department:

Not Specified

Salary Details:

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Advertising End Date:

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Job Description

The role: The successful candidate will support the Trading Leads with day to day reporting supplying data as required and work with Trading Leads in order to create Agency Reports on an ongoing basis. The Trading Executive will also help support members of the team on all bespoke projects.

Day to day you will:

● Conduct analysis to contribute towards monthly reports for all Agency Groups, e.g. Group M, Publicis and Omnicom.

● Contribute to reports that manage the CPS compliance of all News UK client contracts.

● Contribute to ad hoc analysis that the Trading Team may require as part of negotiating

processes.

● Contribute towards the creation of monthly reports for the various teams within News UK.

● Reconciling and compiling data with our external auditors.

● Compiling Monthly Circulation reports.

● Conducting in-depth estimate revenue reports in order to assist the team with provision and forecasting.

● Take part in meetings to reconcile differences in contract delivery status.

● Review current market trends and analysis in order to help to sell in News UK’s various propositions.

● Apply knowledge and understanding of the industry challenges and opportunities and apply

these trading mechanics.

What we are looking for from you:

● Experience of using Excel to understand, manipulate and interrogate data.

● Understanding of media channels such as Print, Digital, Out of Home, Radio & Cinema, how these media are inter related from a deal perspective.

● Experience in presenting data to stakeholders using reporting tools such as Tableau.

● Understanding how to interpret and analysing audience measurement trends for Newsbrands within the UK market.

● Ability to research revenue generating propositions and provide recommendations for

revenue generation.

We are News UK: 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, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio 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 multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

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.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCi-KiMlL4&t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships , free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

• 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%

• 25 days holiday , plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.