UK Commercial Advertising Sales Team - Advertising Manager

The UK Commercial Advertising Sales Team is looking for an ambitious Advertising Manager to take ownership of advertising revenue across The Week.

The Week is one of the UK’s most distinctive and trusted current affairs brands, known for its intelligent, concise and balanced view of the news. With a loyal, highly engaged and influential readership, the brand offers advertisers a premium environment and a strong connection with an audience that is curious, considered and commercially valuable.

As Advertising Manager, you will be responsible for managing and growing revenue across The Week, with a clear focus on protecting its strong print base while also unlocking new opportunities across digital, branded content, partnerships and wider commercial solutions.

What you'll be doing

As the Advertising Manager for The Week, you will play a key role in driving revenue growth across the brand, with a strong focus on print advertising, digital packages and integrated commercial opportunities.

You will be responsible for managing and growing advertising revenues across The Week, ensuring we continue to maximise core revenue streams while also developing new opportunities across digital, social, email, branded content, sponsorships and partnerships. This role will require a strong understanding of The Week’s position in the market, its client base, its audience, and the wider opportunity to connect advertisers with an intelligent, affluent and highly engaged readership.

Reporting to the Commercial Director and wider cross-functional teams, you will build strong relationships across Planning, Client Success, Ad Ops, Trade Marketing, Insight, Editorial and the wider commercial teams to ensure we are delivering joined-up, commercially strong solutions for clients.

Specifically, you will be responsible for:

• Delivering The Week commercial strategy to drive advertising revenue growth across print, digital and wider commercial solutions.
• Managing a team of sales people, setting clear performance expectations, ensuring accountability for achieving commercial targets, revenue goals and brand growth objectives.
• Managing and leading the team day to day, setting clear expectations, supporting performance, and helping individuals develop and grow.
• Tracking and managing performance to consistently meet or exceed monthly, quarterly and annual revenue targets across The Week.
• Providing strategic day-to-day oversight across The Week revenue, supporting senior meetings, RFPs, brainstorms, media plans, campaign execution and troubleshooting, while bringing strong knowledge of the brand, its clients, agencies and market opportunities.
• Delivering exceptional client service, ensuring any issues are resolved quickly and with a high level of care.
• Thriving in a fast-paced, results-driven environment, proactively solving problems, adapting to new situations and managing multiple stakeholders to deliver against revenue targets.
• Focusing on mid-term revenue generation by securing repeat business, annual deals, strategic partnerships and key campaigns, while closely monitoring and managing the pipeline.
• Prioritising the retention and growth of strategic client relationships, while also building new partnerships to deliver net-new clients and incremental revenue each year.
• Engaging proactively with senior-level clients, agencies and partnership teams to develop deep relationships that support both ongoing revenue and new business development.
• Identifying and developing new opportunities for advertisers across The Week’s print, digital, email, social and branded content offering, ensuring the brand is positioned as more than a traditional print advertising opportunity.
• Collaborating cross-functionally with Planning, Insight, Client Success, Ad Ops, Trade Marketing, Editorial and wider commercial teams to identify challenges and opportunities, strengthen workflows and refine the go-to-market approach for The Week.