Commercial Editor - 12 Month Contract

Purpose & Key responsibilities of position

As Commercial Editor, you will be responsible for quality, effectiveness and efficiency across our content partnerships, with an emphasis on either Lifestyle, Travel or Business & Finance. It is your role to ensure your partnerships are as successful as possible – working with the Brand Partnerships Leads to win pitches, delivering the highest quality content and results that matter to clients, driving subscriptions, inspiring repeat bookings, managing editorial budgets and optimising the skills of the wider production team.

Department / unit overview

Thanks to our success, Telegraph Media Group’s Editorial Integrated Partnerships team is growing – we produce partnerships that are right for brands, right for subscribers and right for the Telegraph. Our carefully selected partnerships enhance the journalism and experiences that our subscribers love, while enabling brands to gain exclusive access to our highly engaged audience. We are in a strong growth phase and expect to expand the team further, leading to good career opportunities for the right candidate.

Key responsibilities

• Proactively engage with clients and lead them in shaping quality ideas to ensure results that matter and content that can help drive subscriptions. You’ll back your decisions with expert knowledge and insight, and commission content that delivers results. You will oversee the quality and direction of all ideas and content for your campaigns at pitch, commissioning and delivery.
• Manage your pages/digital content/videos, ensuring relevant colleagues are fully briefed. You’ll oversee input to ensure every element hits the brief and is the best it can be when you sign it off at first and final proof.
• Ensure that all your EIP content is produced to brief, to first-class standards, to Telegraph house style and that deadlines are hit.
• Edit your copy to first-class standards before it reaches the sub-editing stage of the process.
• Work alongside Project Management to ensure your partnerships are running as proactively and efficiently as possible. Between you and relevant sales colleagues – you will ensure every pitch and campaign in your sector is properly planned, costed and optimised.
• Depending on your experience, you will focus on either Lifestyle, Travel or Business/Finance partnerships, but will work on other categories when necessary.
• Responsible for managing, sourcing and negotiating talent to front campaigns in your sector, ensuring we’re getting the most relevant talent at competitive rates.
• ‘Best in field’ with regards to: processes, client communications, contributing to sales pitches, compliance/legal issues, optimising SEO and use of relevant technology.
• Work with sales colleagues to develop proactive sales ideas and to polish pitch decks.

Specific requirements/skills

• Proven editorial, organisational and communication skills.
• First-class team player – self-motivated and proactive in making suggestions/improvements, finding solutions and relentlessly aiming for the highest-quality content and results that matter for clients – and inspiring others to do likewise.
• Good contacts book of freelance writers.
• Peerless client skills and experience, and excellent industry insight (commercial and editorial).
• Top of your field in terms of proactive content ideas, commissioning, editing and managing successful projects from pitch to PCA.
• Extremely comfortable working to tight deadlines and under pressure and have a can-do, problem-solving attitude.

Preferred requirements/skills:

• Competent using inDesign to edit and amend copy.
• Understanding of SEO and how to optimise content.
• Understanding of managing budgets and P&Ls, and scheduling workflows.

Benefits

The nature of our industry means life at the Telegraph Media Group is fast-paced, demanding, and interesting. We also want it to be rewarding for everyone who works here by creating a suite of benefits that contribute to lifestyle choices and leisure activities. From dynamic working opportunities, medical cover, and parental leave (six months fully paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity/partner leave), to life assurance and season ticket loans, you can choose from a range of flexible benefits, designed to support your lifestyle and help you achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Training and development

With support from your manager and colleagues, you’ll also have access to a variety of training and development opportunities through The Academy. Covering a range of personal and professional skills, our courses enable you to develop an enjoyable and rewarding career.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Telegraph Media Group, we foster a diverse and inclusive workplace and we are committed to building a team that reflects a wide variety of skills, perspectives and backgrounds. We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer as part of the government’s Disability Confident Scheme. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition and would like support in applying for any of our roles or if you require any reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process with us, please make us aware.

To find out more about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Telegraph Media Group, and for more information on our purpose, beliefs, and people values, please visit our website

Last updated on Jan 5, 2024