Bauer Media Group
Director of Growth and Partnerships
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Our Team: How we enrich everyday life
Bauer Academy is Bauer Media’s industry-leading training and development business, helping organisations build workforce capability, develop future talent and create lasting organisational impact. You will be joining a team of around 50 colleagues across the UK, working closely with a Senior Leadership Team of five in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. While backed by the scale and stability of Bauer Media, Bauer Academy retains a growth-focused culture with the agility and influence of a developing business.
The Difference You Will Make
As Director of Growth & Partnerships, you will lead Bauer Academy’s consultancy and commercial function, helping organisations solve workforce skills, learning and organisational capability challenges. This is a unique opportunity to build on an established apprenticeship business while accelerating the growth of our learning solutions offering. With a strong pipeline already in place, you will have the autonomy to shape strategy, develop new revenue streams and create long-term client partnerships that deliver meaningful impact.
Why Join Bauer Academy?
You will be joining at a pivotal moment in our growth. Apprenticeships provide a successful and established foundation, while our learning solutions business is primed for expansion. This role offers the chance to combine commercial leadership, strategic partnership building and people development, all within a business that has the backing of Bauer Media and the agility of a growing organisation. As learning solutions continue to grow, you will have the opportunity to shape the function and develop the team supporting our future ambitions.
Your Role
- Develop and deliver commercial strategies that drive sustainable revenue growth.
- Build and convert a strong pipeline of new opportunities and client partnerships.
- Identify new market opportunities and growth areas.
- Act as a trusted advisor on learning, workforce development and organisational capability.
- Build relationships with senior stakeholders and decision-makers.
- Lead commercial activity across apprenticeships and learning solutions.
- Manage and develop three direct reports.
- Contribute as a member of the Bauer Academy Senior Leadership Team.
- Build trusted, strategic client relationships focused on long-term outcomes rather than transactional sales.
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The Skills You Will Bring
- Significant experience in business development, partnerships, consultancy or L&D.
- Proven ability to generate revenue growth and build long-term client relationships.
- Exceptional networking and stakeholder management skills.
- Highly organised with a proactive, entrepreneurial mindset.
- Strong understanding of learning and development or workforce capability.
- Excellent communication, leadership and collaboration skills.
- Desirable: apprenticeship sector knowledge and experience selling learning solutions.
Working Pattern & Location
Hybrid role based at The Lantern, London. Expected office attendance on Mondays plus additional days as required, alongside regular client meetings, networking and travel.
About Bauer Media Group
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people’s everyday lives.
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What’s In It For You
- You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
- Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
- We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
- You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
- And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here
We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk
We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.
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