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About the Role
The Senior Business Manager is accountable for the full in-year commercial performance of the Guardian’s newspaper portfolio across UK retail and subscription channels.
Responsibilities
- Own full in-year P&L for the newspaper portfolio, including revenue, margin, ARPU, retention and circulation
- Work across internal teams to drive subscription acquisitions and retention
- Execute pricing and promotional plans to optimise revenue, volume and lifetime value
- Drive distribution, visibility and performance across retail channels in the UK and internationally
- Act as the commercial lead for in-year print performance, aligning marketing, editorial and advertising around delivery priorities
- Own circulation and revenue forecasting, ensuring accuracy and responsiveness to performance trends
- Provide input into print strategy, propositions and pricing frameworks based on trading insight and performance data
Requirements
- Strong commercial leadership experience in subscription, circulation or print/media environments
- Proven track record of owning revenue, budgets and trading performance against clear financial targets
- Deep understanding of pricing, promotions and yield optimisation
- Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting and business case development
- Ability to operate cross-functionally, aligning marketing, editorial and commercial stakeholders
- Analytical mindset with the ability to balance short-term performance with long-term value
Location
- Kings Cross
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Minimum salary for any full-time role is £30,000 per annum. Salary ranges are dependent on skills and experience.
Benefits
- 30 days of annual leave per year plus bank holidays
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days of annual leave
- Pension scheme with employer contribution of 8-12% (depending on age) if employee contributes 5%
- 2 volunteering days annually
- Option of payroll giving
- Season ticket loans available
- Private healthcare
- Life cover
- Income protection
- Eye tests
- Optional dental insurance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave policies
- IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality policy support
- Access to employee benefits platform for tailored health and wellbeing support
- Free yoga and Pilates classes
- Corporate gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
About the Company
- Join our team at the Guardian and be a part of a diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism and holds power to account.
- Our team of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals and industry-leading digital experts are committed to making a difference and represent a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.
- We offer a challenging and exciting environment for career development, with a focus on training, growth and fostering an inclusive culture.
- We became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.
Equal Opportunity
- We actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
- We value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people.
- We aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve, where our people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard and can contribute to our future.
- We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
- All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply.
- It is important to us that you feel supported and comfortable throughout your recruitment process, in order to perform your best.
- Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to help your application, this includes providing documents in accessible formats or personalising the process to better support your needs.