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The Independent, Publisher - IndyBest

Employer
The Independent
Location
Kensington, London
Salary
£DoE
Closing date
27 Oct 2020

Job Details

The Independent is looking for a talented and experienced publisher to shape the growth of the title’s IndyBest platform.

The right candidate will be a highly organised and creative editor, with a deep understanding of how to achieve online traffic growth while ensuring the title’s commercial success.

The successful candidate will have a genuine passion for lifestyle and ecommerce journalism, and understand how to inspire a team to create industry-leading and engaging shopping content that readers love and trust.

The publisher must be a calm and decisive problem solver, with the ability and attitude to influence colleagues into positive and timely action.

Key responsibilities and skills:

  • Leading an established and growing team of journalists.
  • Liaising with the audience lead to ensure growth.
  • Being the public face of the brand.
  • Advise on publishing strategy and help lead on implementing best practice.
  • Keep up to date with latest developments and best practice in the industry by attending events and communicating learnings to wider team.
  • Work closely with the data team and convey insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  • Spot opportunity and react in an agile manner.
  • Work closely with key commercial colleagues.


Essential skills and experience:

  • Experience of successfully working in a similar role at a similar title.
  • Strong familiarity with the Independent and our coverage.
  • Proven track record for increasing followers, engagement and traffic.
  • Excellent organisational and planning skills required to manage the daily/weekly/monthly publishing flow of an editorial team.
  • Experience strategising and developing ideas for long tail content.
  • Experience collaborating with editors to grow and increase audience, both on site and across platforms.
  • Proficiency in analysing complex issues and developing actionable insights and plans.
  • Skilled content creator.
  • Ability to clearly communicate best practices.
  • Expert knowledge of trends.
  • An understanding of the commercial risks and opportunities associated with audience growth.
  • Experience of working in a dynamic fast-paced media environment.


Expected behaviours:

  • Continuous Improvement – Works in a smart, flexible and focussed way, is open to change and suggests ideas for improvements to the way things are done.
  • Collaboration – Builds and maintains positive and supportive working relationships with colleagues.  Helps to create an inclusive and professional work environment.
  • Building Capability – Keeps own knowledge and skill set current and evolving and looks for ways to continue learning to support the achievement of business objectives.
  • Quality Service – Delivers high quality and efficient service and takes account of the diverse customer needs and requirements when looking at ways to improve service quality.
  • Responsive Delivery - Works to agreed business goals and objectives and deals with challenges in a constructive and responsive way.  Takes personal responsibility for quality of outputs.


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Company

Working to inform, challenge and inspire our readers and clients every day, The Independent offices in Finsbury Square offer a lively and sociable working environment.

From our journalists to our commercial team, we have some of the best talent in the business, who are all passionate about our fantastic brands.

All of our employees are entitled to benefits including great pension and health insurance schemes. We also offer cycle to work and season ticket loan initiatives to make our employees’ journeys to work easier. We want our employees to enjoy working for us and we invest in training and development to support and develop rewarding careers.

Company info
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Location
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14 - 18 Finsbury Square
London
EC2A 1AH
United Kingdom

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