Podcast Manager

Octave is News UK’s premium, highly targeted digital audio and video advertising. Octave combines inventory from News UK’s media brand portfolio, including talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK and Times Radio, alongside premium inventory partners to reach over 14.5 million highly engaged listeners monthly. Octave has a unique data offering, combining rich, logged-in publisher data from News UK alongside data enrichment partnerships to enable highly targeted digital audio and video campaigns.

Your Role

This is an exciting role within the Octave Sales Team, helping to commercialise the Octave podcast portfolio. The role requires both active selling to media agencies across the market but also facilitating the wider sales teams on active campaign briefs. The role works closely with senior brand stakeholders to ensure the commercial team is aligned with new podcast launches across our networks. Reporting into the Head of Podcasts - Commercial, this role will be responsible for driving and delivering sponsorship, spot and programmatic revenue across Octave podcasts.

Day to day you will:

• Support the Head of Podcasts - Commercial, in driving strategy on how to expand and improve the existing Octave podcast offering.
• Exceed podcast revenue targets and KPI’s, delivering sponsorship, spot ad and programmatic revenue across all Octave podcast brands.
• Support the wider Digital Sales and Business Development Teams across all Agency Hubs; determine target clients and verticals and educate internal teams with best-in-class digital knowledge and practices.
• Alongside the Commercial Podcast Executive, ensure day to day management of all live briefs and campaigns from booking to activation.
• Proactively approach target clients with a focus on long-term podcast sponsorship opportunities.
• Attend internal brainstorming sessions and provide responses to campaign briefs.
• Create presentations, reports and sales collateral for both clients and the wider sales teams to deliver to market.
• Create and deliver partnership opportunities and revenues complementing wider News UK solutions and responses.
• Work with digital, sales, activation and editorial stakeholders to consistently improve ideation, end-to-end delivery, to ensure world-class service and delivery for our clients.

What we’re looking for from you:

• A good knowledge of media, agency and client processes and business objectives.
• Advanced interest in the UK media industry, with a passion for podcasts.
• Demonstrable experience of working within the digital media space, ideally with podcasts, with creativity and a personal drive to create award-winning work.
• Proven track record of building and nurturing relationships across a wide spectrum of agency disciplines.
• Exceptional communication, presentation and organisational skills.
• Proven experience in digital advertising, ad tech, or media, with a strong understanding of programmatic platforms and data strategy.
• Strong commercial experience with demonstrable abilities to deliver sales targets.

Benefits:

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions.
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes.
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme.
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books.
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks.
• 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%.
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year.

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