Editorial Director, Wonderly

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Employer: Haymarket Media Group
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary: up to £85,000 depending on experience + car allowance
Closing date: 9 Feb 2025

Sector: Marketing, Advertising and PR, Technology
Role: Director
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Overview

As Editorial Director for Wonderly, you will ensure the quality and relevance of all content across print, online, podcast, and live platforms. You will drive content strategy, foster strong client relationships, and oversee seamless project delivery aligned with Wonderly’s and Haymarket’s goals.

This role involves managing editorial efforts, ensuring high standards for client partnerships like CIPD, and leading initiatives for new business development. Your leadership will shape Wonderly’s content, enhance client satisfaction, and contribute to strategic growth and financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure overall editorial quality and relevance of all content emerging from Wonderly brands across all channels – print, online, podcast and live.
• Take the lead on client relationships relating to content – attend all relevant meetings, stay abreast of strategy, develop strong relationships with clients, act as first port of call for troubleshooting and answer any strategic questions in this area.
• React to and lead on requests for additional content-led projects from Wonderly clients: pull together response documents, contribute ideas, work with editorial teams to find solutions, take creative lead on any creative response required.
• Take the lead on editorial work relating to Wonderly awards and events and ensure editorial resource is allocated to these appropriately.
• Take direct responsibility for all content-led client work outside the immediate Wonderly output, including that delivered by Content Labs, Digital or other Haymarket teams. Ensure the quality of this work, communicate with clients and troubleshoot any issues relating to delivery.
• Be on top of online metrics and work with editorial teams to better hone our digital model and improve performance across any metric deemed important by clients and strategic goals set by Wonderly or wider Haymarket group.
• Understand the financial performance of Wonderly and work with editors to improve this where appropriate.
• Take the lead in editorial response on new business, working alongside the Head of Creative to determine the creative required for meetings and pitches, drawing in staff and freelance resource as appropriate.

Skills / Experience / Knowledge / Minimum Criteria

• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in leading an Editorial Team.
• Ability to work effectively and provide direction and leadership to a team under stringent deadline requirements.
• Ability and willingness to collaborate closely with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Creativity in developing engaging, fresh, and relevant content.
• Proven experience in a similar role.

We are a Disability Confident employer and offer guaranteed interviews to all disabled applicants who meet the above minimum criteria.

Why work with us?

• 25 days holiday per year excluding bank holidays (increasing 1 day per year of service up to 30 days).
• Work from anywhere in the world for up to 3 weeks of the year with our ‘Work from Anywhere’ days.
• Flexible working hours (core hours from 10-3) allowing you the flexibility to adapt your work schedule to your personal commitments.
• Generous contributory pension scheme.
• Health Cash Plans: With our health cash plans, you can access a range of healthcare benefits, including coverage for medical expenses, dental care, optical services, and more.

More about working for Haymarket

Putting social and environmental responsibility at the forefront of our business we have aligned our current sustainability goals with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As we serve our audiences, clients and communities, we are committed to driving the meaningful change necessary to build a better world. The principles of diversity, inclusion, respect, responsibility and sustainability are at the heart of our business.

We want to support our people to balance their personal and professional lives and we believe our range of benefits encourages this. Nothing beats face-time with our colleagues to promote creativity and collaboration, we’ve therefore adopted a blended working model where full time employees can expect to spend 3 days of their week in the office and the other 2 working at a location of their choice.

Haymarket is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability.

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Come and join us and see for yourself how Haymarket is a rewarding and exciting place to work.

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